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Title: ZEN AND NOW
Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 12:06:24 AM
Well, you've read the notes, you are feeling very Zen now, and now it is time for you to post until the Zen Cows come home.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 12:06:46 AM
And the word of the day is: HOMOPHONE!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Tomovoz on March 30, 2006, 12:31:00 AM
TOTD:  I try Eastern Standard Time (EST) for most of each year. It is most beneficial.

Analysts and therapists  NOT. That's what friends and pets are for.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Michael on March 30, 2006, 04:31:12 AM
KIng Kong's music score: They also used portions of Max Steiner's original score.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Michael on March 30, 2006, 04:31:40 AM
Homophone: What some people use to call their friends.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Michael on March 30, 2006, 04:32:22 AM
Good morning Ben and Larry
(Haven't said that in a while)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 04:41:22 AM
Good morning, all!  I slept quite well last night, and I'm ready to head off to the recording office.  I got the new lens for my glasses yesterday, so I no longer see the world through a scuffed lens, and the wounds from my fall 10 days ago are nearly healed.  Now, if only some work would come in!

My friend John Wallace, who was probably the best trumpet player alive until his retirement last year, is coming to New York this weekend for Tartan Week, and I hope to spend some time gossiping about the notorious recording project and what's up at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, of which he is now the principal.  At some point I'm expecting knighthood for this talented fellow.

DR FJL, is THREEPENNY as bad as I;m hearing?  From ther gossip, i sounds totally misconceived, as if the director didn't do a bit of research on Brecht or the piece.

TOD:  No Zen, no EST, no way!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 04:42:12 AM
Good morning, DR Michael S!  Ben, howya been?  
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Michael on March 30, 2006, 04:43:41 AM
DR FJL, is THREEPENNY as bad as I;m hearing?  From ther gossip, i sounds totally misconceived, as if the director didn't do a bit of research on Brecht or the piece.

Didn't that happen with the last revival with Sting and Maureen McGovern?
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 05:12:27 AM
I probably won't be able to join the festivities following the performance on Friday. My date for the evening would be overwhelmed.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 05:19:52 AM
Thanks for the LESTAT precis, DR FJL!!

Lovely puppy DR MATTHEW!

I have to work the next three days....and of course there was a sun eclipse in Aries yesterday so who knows WHAT will happen?

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 05:20:24 AM
I am taking King Tut to work today, so I may get a photo of him to post tonight....time will tell.

Other than that, I know nothing.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 05:20:35 AM
There is someone in the Zen room!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 05:25:23 AM
Didn't that happen with the last revival with Sting and Maureen McGovern?

I saw the Sting/McGovern production, and liked a lot of it.  This new one sounds totally misconceived.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: FJL on March 30, 2006, 05:48:55 AM
Topic of the day:  I did try Phen-Phen (the diet pill phenomenon which proved to be very dangerous) for a brief while.  Does that count?
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: FJL on March 30, 2006, 05:57:47 AM
For me, in this THREEPENNY, the individual performances of the numbers worked quite well, although the normally wonderful Nellie McKay was surprisingly off-pitch in one of her songs (in this version, that song is called The 'No' Song) leading me to believe she needs a key adjustment for that number.  It was too early to assess Wallace Shawn's new translation of the book, as the actors are still experimenting with the book scenes - it doesn't bother me that they're charging full price, though, since they're making no secret of the fact that they're in previews.  Although I think its overriding point is that in this day and age, it takes a lot more to shock and (if this is the right term) alienate, and Shawn seems intent on shocking us as an audience out of our own complacency and get what he and his director seem to evaluate as the Brecht effect, rather than merely present the Brecht-Weill THREEPENNY OPERA.

Elmore, do you know - do modern revisions have to be done with eprmission of the estates of the writers, or is it in the public domain at this point?
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Ben on March 30, 2006, 05:57:57 AM
Morning, all. I've been very busy at work so not much time to post
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 30, 2006, 06:02:15 AM
TOD:

About fifteen years ago I went through a period where I immersed myself into the recovery movement and through that discovered and explored various spiritual channels.  Meditation, yoga, anger management, sweat lodges, drumming, men's group consoling.  I got a lot out of most of my experiences, though there were a few times when I thought, "What the hell have I gotten myself into?"  But the best piece of advice I picked up fairly quickly was "Take what you like and leave the rest."
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:08:55 AM
Good Morning!

Ah, the "joys" of alternate side of the street parking in NYC.

;)

:-\

Hey, but at least I'm up.

:)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:13:56 AM
As for the Topic of the Day...

The closest things that come to mind are Body-for-Life - which does have a bit of a cultish tinge among some "followers" - and The Four Agreements.  However, I find the 4As very simple, and sort of like Universal Common Sense, and they are derived from Toltec wisdom and teachings (via Miguel Ruiz).

Be Impeccable With Your Words
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best



...As the song goes... "What's hard is simple, What's natural comes hard."
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:14:20 AM
DR Matthew - Cute(!!!) puppy.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:21:25 AM
Back to Lestat for a bit...

I think it has been sort of cool - for lack of a better word - that the producers and creative team did take to heart what some of the critics, fans and non-fans said about the show in San Francisco.  In fact, they've been very public about it in recent interviews and press coverage.  Even Sir Elton John speaks about all the revisions and the need for some new songs in his video interview on Playbill.com - and that interview was taped back in early February.  Yes, some of the "publicity" may be geared toward overriding the negative buzz that the show has had to fight coming into New York, but, in the larger scheme, it also demonstrates just how much change any new show goes through from it's first rehearsal to it's first preview to Opening Night... And sometimes beyond Opening Night.  -Miss Saigon had four different endings during it's run - musically speaking that is, and Phantom has also been tweaked here and there over the years.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:21:39 AM
There is someone in the Zen room!

SCOTTY!! I mean...er.... ah..Dr. Scott




You know this earthling... person?
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:27:41 AM
I seem to be having a "flashback day"


When I turned on the TV to get the traffic report,  I accidently turned on AMC and ended up with Will Success Ruin Rock Hunter, I turned on the car radio and found my station was doing an all 60's/70's mix and discovered that I know all the words to Pleasant Valley Sunday, You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Traces of Love and Good Vibrations

and now JRand has me quoting RHPS...


doo doo doo doo.. doo doo doo dooo  


don't change the web browser we have taken control of your computer.  Beyond time, beyond space...you're in .......





THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:29:50 AM
Re: Lestat

I am looking forward to seeing it.  I was a fan of the first three books  (after that it wa a bit like flogging a dead horse I am afraid)


Now to fix the date!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Jennifer on March 30, 2006, 06:32:48 AM
Re: last night's AMERICAN IDOL elimination.


I don't know why, but I was shocked Katharine was in the bottom two. I think it was partly because of how the judges praised her on Tuesday night.  

Even though Simon said that on tv she didn't sound as good. I really thought that the fact that all 3 judges raved about her would have meant she would have gotten the most votes, not the least. Wow.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:33:05 AM
Yesterday FJL posted
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the show's content is extremely gay-friendly, and some people in our vicinity were heard to go "ewww" at the sight of two men kissing -




I guess those people must have been HOMOPHONES



 ;)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:35:16 AM
FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS DEPT

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American reporter Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped three months ago in a bloody ambush that killed her translator and later appeared in videotapes pleading for help, was released Thursday, telling the world that she was “just happy to be free.”
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Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Jennifer on March 30, 2006, 06:36:24 AM
Re: something DR Cillaliz said about The amazing race.

It's true things can be taken out of context. Perhaps fran/barry have reason not to like the dentist.  I still think though that they (fran and barry) came off really mean when they wouldn't tell them where the task was being held.  It's one thing if they were still competing. But they were DONE.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:36:40 AM
A lady went into a butcher shop complaining about some hot dogs she had just bought. "The middle is meat," she exclaimed, "but the ends are sawdust!"


















"Well," said the butcher. "These days it's hard to make ends meat."

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:37:34 AM
A termite walked into a bar and asked, "Is the bartender here?"


































bar  "tender"....

bartender...


never mind
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:39:16 AM
Re: last night's AMERICAN IDOL elimination.


I don't know why, but I was shocked Katharine was in the bottom two. I think it was partly because of how the judges praised her on Tuesday night.  

Even though Simon said that on tv she didn't sound as good. I really thought that the fact that all 3 judges raved about her would have meant she would have gotten the most votes, not the least. Wow.



However...




Maybe the "public" actually heard how off her performance sounded "on the TV".  I know I was scratching my head when I was hearing the compliments being paid to her.  But it's also been known that the mix heard in the studio is not what the viewing public hears, and vice versa.

*I also think that there is a Christina Aguilera "non-fan" base, and her song selection probably came into play too.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:40:02 AM
Two blondes went to a costume party, both dressed as Betty Boop. When they saw each other, they were very angry, because they couldn't stand the thought that someone else was wearing the same costume. They started feuding, and one of them grabbed the other's name tag and changed it so that it read "Betty Bop." The second immediately did the same, so they were both wearing the wrong name tag and were angrier than ever.

Suddenly there was an unearthly moan, and a ghost appeared to them, also dressed as Betty Boop. It intoned, "Beware, mortals! I was once such as you, but through my pettiness and wrath I came to this! Beware, lest ye too suffer my grim fate! Beware!" But the two blondes ignored the apparition and kept feuding.

Things continued along those lines until the scat-singing contest. When it was the first blonde's turn, she did spectacularly, so much so that the audience demanded an encore. This made the second blonde so angry that she snapped, snuck up onto the bandstand, and slipped a bomb into the bass drum. But she greviously overestimated the length of the song, and it ended before she could get away. The drummer hit the bass drum, the bomb went off, and both the blondes and several innocent bystanders were killed.


So to summarize:

































 Bop, Bop, Boo-Bop: She Bopped; Bam, Boom!
 
 

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:43:41 AM
GET THE HOOK!!!!!

;D
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:45:41 AM
A hungry African lion came across two men. One was sitting under a tree and reading a book; the other was typing away on his typewriter. The lion pounced on the man reading the book and devoured him. Even the king of the jungle knows that






















 readers digest and writers cramp.

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:46:12 AM
Two strings walk into a bar. The first tries to order something. "I don't serve strings in this bar," the bartender says roughly and throws him out.

The second ruffs himself up, ties his ends together, walks in, and orders. "Hey, didn't you hear what I told your buddy?" the bartender says.

"Yeah," the string says.

"Aren't you a string?" the bartender says.


























"I'm a frayed knot," the string replies.

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:46:50 AM
I'm taking laughter therapy.... is it working?




Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:49:25 AM
Actually I have never subscribed to Zen, EST, Yoga,  Self Awarness Training, Transidential Meditation or any of  the other things that have come down the pike since the 1960's...

if liquor , drugs and sex were good enough for my grandpappy, by gum, they're good enough for me too!!


Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:49:41 AM
 ;D
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 06:59:18 AM
Hmmm... Someone must be having a slow day at the office this morning...  No end of the month "rush" going on?

;)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: MBarnum on March 30, 2006, 07:01:34 AM
Vixmom, you just crack me up!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 07:02:45 AM
Hmmm... Someone must be having a slow day at the office this morning...  No end of the month "rush" going on?

;)

No. Oddly enough, everything is being scheduled for next week    :)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 07:03:04 AM
Vixmom, you just crack me up!

Thanks! I'll be here all week!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 07:08:29 AM
card trick


http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3004348&path=24044
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Ginny on March 30, 2006, 07:20:33 AM
Thursday morning greetings!  It's a beautiful spring day here in SW Ohio.

Today I'm presenting a mini-version of my grantseeking basics workshop to the Library's senior management.  Tomorrow I have my interview, about which I received some insider info that came as a great relief  :-X
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 07:22:16 AM
Good morning!

Beautiful morning, going to be in the 70s today, and should be a great day for a walk.

However, rain rolls in tomorrow and throughout the weekend though the temperatures are supposed to continue their warming trend and be 80 by Monday.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 30, 2006, 07:24:05 AM
While I think legitimate pschology and therapy have their place in this world (I'd better; The Lovely Wife is a psychotherapist), I have never gone in for any myself.  I have learned to accommodate my demons and make them work for me.

I have also never gone in for any sort of pop-psychology quick fix or discipline.

My view on self-indulgent self-exploration is the three "g's".  Quit griping, get over it, and grow up.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 07:24:11 AM
Never tried any of those movements like Zen or EST. I even diet in my own way rather than subscribe to any weight loss regimen.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 07:27:08 AM
I really can't account for Katharine's lack of votes. No one did a great job on Tuesday night, and I, too, didn't understand all the raves about her rendition (though I think she's one of the most talented singers left in the group). but I never would have dreamed Bucky would have gotten more votes than she did.

And next week is country week which should play to Bucky's and Kellie's strengths. I'm wondering if Ace and Chris are going to have the hardest time next week.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 30, 2006, 07:28:12 AM
elmore, you mentioned Judy Kaye wonderful rendition of You're Everywhere the other day.  I love the album that is on:  WHERE, OH, WHERE?  Her version of Windflowers on the same album breaks my heart and is utterly superb.  She may be my favourite female singer.  To have such a brilliant instrument and to have such clarity and simplicity of style! Wow!  
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 07:28:42 AM
Thursday morning greetings!  It's a beautiful spring day here in SW Ohio.

Today I'm presenting a mini-version of my grantseeking basics workshop to the Library's senior management.  Tomorrow I have my interview, about which I received some insider info that came as a great relief  :-X

You're conducting your own interview?  :D
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Ginny on March 30, 2006, 07:31:43 AM
You're conducting your own interview?  :D

LOL - not quite!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 07:37:33 AM
KIng Kong's music score: They also used portions of Max Steiner's original score.

Yes, Steiner's original score was heard in the stage show where they unveil Kong for NY.  And when you hear it, you know exactly what's wrong with Mr. Howard's score.  And what's wrong with Mr. Howard's score is what's wrong with 99% of the scores written today - they could work in twenty other movies (and they do).  In other words, you could remove Mr. Howard's score from King Kong, put it in Gladiator, and no one would know the difference or care.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 07:38:18 AM
Have an early lunch date, so I must get shaved and showered before my ride arrives.

WBBL.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: PennyO on March 30, 2006, 07:50:59 AM
Heloo, gud mawnin!

Clouding up again... it was so nice and sunny up at the cabin... oh, well...

TOD - I began experimenting with Tarot in my mid-teens, and have been reading Tarot daily since then. For over thirty years I have been reading Cards professionally -- it's basically counseling, but strange "how'd ya know that??" things keep popping up --(ya wondered how I "made a living" all those years in Showbizz??????), and added Onlne/IM/Email readings about six years ago.

I never did any of those Est/Psychotherapy/Results types of workshops, never tried firewalking, diet pills, skydiving. But I have bought the excellent Julia Cameron book, The Artist's Way, for more than a dozen friends... many found it life-changing.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 07:59:11 AM
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[color=0range]FOR DR GINNY[/color]
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Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 08:00:46 AM
I'm tiiiiiiiiiiiiired, but must get un-tiiiiiiiiiired prior to the musical theater workshop.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: PennyO on March 30, 2006, 08:17:37 AM
Best Interview Vibes to DR Ginny!!! Go get 'em!!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: PennyO on March 30, 2006, 08:18:28 AM
Vixmom!!! you make me laugh like a drooling idiot!!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: MBarnum on March 30, 2006, 08:27:08 AM
Does anyone remember the old TV series VICTORY AT SEA? It is now out on DVD...all 26 episodes for just $9.99. My co-worker Bud bought it along with the CD soundtrack.

I was not particularly interested in the DVD (although I do have vivid memories of the show playing in reruns in the early 70s) but he made me a copy of the CD and it is fantastic! Beautiful music!!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 08:28:04 AM
And now....

PAGE TWOTHREE!!!!

;)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 08:30:41 AM
As for a Page Two Dance...

Well, I shall dance a "Thank You Dance" for my parents right now.  I just found out that they had "helped" me out without telling me.  :)

Guess I should give them a call this week.  ;)
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Maria on March 30, 2006, 08:37:46 AM
Good Morning.
TOD: Boulder is filled with every form of self-help, therapy, inner-growth movement known to (wo)man. I lived there for 8 years, so I had a chance to dip my toes in quite a few interesting things - many Buddhist based practices, for example. Naropa University had really fascinating workshops where you could go for a weekend and study with sages from all over the world - Tibet, China, Brooklyn, you name it. There was one practice - and I can't think of the name - in which you actually made a statue or other kind of physical representation of whatever your "inner demon" was and spoke to it. Made nice. Gave it what it wanted -- love. It sounds totally crazy, but it's very powerful when you're actually doing it.
I did a number of workshops with Dr. Brugh Joy. A top surgeon who survived a kind of cancer that inevitably kills - and then changed his entire life to teach "heart centered transformation." Again, very powerful.
It all sounds terribly New Age-y, I know. And I really don't like New Age psycho-babble. But as a writer I've learned that I need to keep my mind and heart open. I may not agree with it, but I should try and understand it.

Oh - and in my misspent youth I dated a Primal Scream therapist for a time. That was fun!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:38:12 AM
Does anyone remember the old TV series VICTORY AT SEA? It is now out on DVD...all 26 episodes for just $9.99. My co-worker Bud bought it along with the CD soundtrack.

I was not particularly interested in the DVD (although I do have vivid memories of the show playing in reruns in the early 70s) but he made me a copy of the CD and it is fantastic! Beautiful music!!

Richard Rodgers won an Emmy for his score for this series.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 08:39:31 AM
I shall now be on my way to LACC, after which I shall return.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:39:52 AM
I have a tremendous number of shows from last night to watch at some point today. I know I won't get them all watched before a new round of programs come on tonight, but those left over will be in tomorrow's Media Check.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:42:00 AM
I also plucked TOPSY-TURVY off the shelf to rewatch at some point over the next few days.

One of the pay cable channels has been playing it recently, and I stumbled midway through it on a couple of occasions never stopping long enough to watch but reminding myself (especially after we talked about operettas the other day) that it's worthy of viewing again.

And Kevin McKidd is in it, and I didn't have the crush on him when I last watched this movie that I do now, so it should be even more interesting to see it (and him) again.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 08:48:54 AM
I had a pretty good night's sleep -- but there was a dream that probably doesn't bear interpreting.

"American Idol's" Elliot Yamin and "The Evidence's" Rob Estes were presenting food entrees to some judges a la the "Top Chef" show on Bravo.  

Elliot was a bit uncertain whether he should have heated up his blueberries or simply mixed them into his dish directly from the countertop.

Oy!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:16:20 AM
HOT BLUEBERRIES!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:49:53 AM
No posts in an hour?! HOT BLUEBERRIES!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:50:11 AM
Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows?

































They're making headlines!

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:50:39 AM
When is a school paper not a school paper?










































When it's turned into the teacher.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:51:20 AM
What's Mary short for?











































She's got no legs.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:51:54 AM
What is a dentist's favorite musical instrument?











































A tuba toothpaste.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:52:50 AM
A guy went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I keep having these alternating recurring dreams. First I'm a teepee, then I'm a wigwam, then I'm a teepee, and then I'm a wigwam. It's driving me crazy. What's wrong with me?"

The doctor replied, "It's very simple.





















































You're two tents."


Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:53:13 AM
Why does a chicken coop have only two doors?


















































If it had four, it would be a chicken sedan.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Ginny on March 30, 2006, 09:53:54 AM
This book is causing much ooh-ing and aah-ing among my coworkers today.  Some of them are too young, though, to get it:

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 09:56:10 AM
One grape lived for lying around in the sun.






























It was his "raisin d'etre."

Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: TCB on March 30, 2006, 10:02:01 AM
Greetings all!

I should be home from my conference sometime this evening.  The weather was beautiful at Lake Chelan.  And they haven't repossessed my car -- yet!

It's all good.
 :P
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 10:03:55 AM
I shall now go out and walk in the 63 degree sunny weather.

Much to everyone's relief I am sure.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: FJL on March 30, 2006, 10:08:57 AM
Since it's apparently Henny Youngmom Day here at HHW, here's a tasteless oldie:

Lady goes to the doctor. She says Doctor, what do I do - I went to the bathroom Monday, heard clanging in the bowl, and I looked, there were pennies, then on Tuesday there were nickels, then on Wednesday there were dimes, then this morning when I looked in the bowl there were quarters.

Doctor says Mrs. Goldfarb, it's nothing to worry about...










You're just going through your change!
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: FJL on March 30, 2006, 10:12:42 AM
Doctor tells this guy to run five miles every day.  Guy calls the doctor a week later, says what do I do, I'm thirty-five miles from home.


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Post by: FJL on March 30, 2006, 10:13:09 AM
I'll stop now.  :)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 30, 2006, 10:19:03 AM
Good Afternoon!

Well, I think I'm going to take advantage of the glorious weather this afternoon too...

Laters...
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 10:19:50 AM
I shall now go out and walk in the 63 degree sunny weather.

Much to everyone's relief I am sure.

Whew!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 30, 2006, 10:40:02 AM
Everyone's a comedian.  ;D
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 10:55:04 AM

Elmore, do you know - do modern revisions have to be done with eprmission of the estates of the writers, or is it in the public domain at this point?


The score is still under copyright, so the Kurt Weill Foundation is most likely controlling the musical program, but the Brecht text is still most like under the control of Stefan Brecht, the son.  I don't think either party has control of how the work is staged or presented, but I can't be certain.  Lenya couldn't stop the Off-Broadway MAHOGANNY in the early 70s, which sounds definitely better than what I've heard about this Roundabout "revival."
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 10:58:27 AM
Thanks! I'll be here all week!

Thank God it's Thursday! :-*
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 11:08:42 AM
elmore, you mentioned Judy Kaye wonderful rendition of You're Everywhere the other day.  I love the album that is on:  WHERE, OH, WHERE?  Her version of Windflowers on the same album breaks my heart and is utterly superb.  She may be my favourite female singer.  To have such a brilliant instrument and to have such clarity and simplicity of style! Wow!  

DRCharlesPogue, I love that recording, and I stupidly never bought it during it's very limited CD existence.  I should look for it on eBay.  Judy sang "You're Everywhere" at the memorial service of our friend Bill Tynes, who produced period musicals in concert at Town Hall in the early 1980s.  Bill's New Amsterdam Theatre Company never got the attention of City Center's Encores! series, but he is responsible for most of these concert presentations  happening now.  A lot of folk - Judy, Rebecca Luker, Brent Barrett, Alix Korey, George Dvorsky, Paula Laurence, George S. Irving, Ron Raines - had great exposure in Bill's productions.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 11:17:54 AM
When I drove in to wthe office this morning,the gas station at the cornr was selling "regular" for $2.65 a gallon.  It is now $2.79 a gallon!!




%^%%&&(*)((_))+_&$#@*_|+|!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 11:19:44 AM
Thank God it's Thursday! :-*


AMEN, Bro!
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 11:48:10 AM

AMEN, Bro!


[size=8] Y, U[/size]
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 12:17:08 PM
Whats good for the goose....

Quote
A Jordanian man divorced his wife after discovering that she was also his virtual girlfriend.

Bakr Melhem had been flirting with a women on an internet chat room for several months.

But, when they finally met up at a bus station, in Zarqa near Amman, he recognised her as his wife Sanaa.

Bakr Melhem immediately shouted the Arabic words for 'I divorce thee' three times.

The husband had assumed the online identity of Adnan, while his wife had described herself as an unmarried Muslim lady called Jamila whose cultural interests included reading.

Jordanian news agency Petra reports when the man uttered the Islamic words, effectively ending the marriage, the woman responded by calling him 'a liar' before she fainted.

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Post by: François de Paris on March 30, 2006, 12:25:10 PM
Note to Elmore:

Some Amazon.com seller has a copy of Where, Oh Where? for sale!

(Sorry! Had problems placing the link!!)


I'm crazy about Judy Kaye's talents and one of my favourite recordings of hers is the little known "Americanegro Suite" under the same label as "Where, Oh Where!"...

http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=5587
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 12:57:16 PM
Note to Elmore:

Some Amazon.com seller has a copy of Where, Oh Where? for sale!

(Sorry! Had problems placing the link!!)


I'm crazy about Judy Kaye's talents and one of my favourite recordings of hers is the little known "Americanegro Suite" under the same label as "Where, Oh Where!"...

http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=5587

Amazon link to CD (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000205D/sr=8-29/qid=1143752252/ref=sr_1_29/102-7524911-9768903?%5Fencoding=UTF8)
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 01:07:15 PM
Lunch was a frustrating experience since every place we went was packed and the wait ended up being long. I hadn't had anything solid to eat for a long, long time and was actually feeling light headed until I finally got some food in my stomach.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 01:08:34 PM
Once back I did enjoy OUT OF PRACTICE from last night though it wasn't quite as funny as some episodes have been. I really like all of the actors, and I noticed they've started giving Jennifer Tilly a lot more to do and say than earlier in the season.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 01:13:30 PM
COURTING ALEX had some fun experimentation with British accents, but the idea of the Dabney Coleman character still disliking Josh Randall's character is so contrived now as to be irritating. He's proven over and over to be a nice guy and a guy worthy of his daughter, so this hateful distaste he continues to harbor for the guy is ridiculous and lessens the humor content of the show for me.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 01:15:00 PM
VERONICA MARS had an enjoyable mystery at the college where, despite her objections, it's obvious she's going to be attending next season (if the show get renewed).

And we moved a step closer with more clues about background information we need to solve the bus "accident."
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 01:16:18 PM
LAW & ORDER had a relatively minor case about tactics police use in obtaining information under duress. Interesting subject but the resulting case wasn't very dramatic.
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 01:16:34 PM
Back from a good class and a good lunch.  Am now waiting for actors to arrive for a line-through - hope to be finished with that by three so that I can buckle down Winsocki and get some writing done.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 01:41:52 PM
Amazon link to CD (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000205D/sr=8-29/qid=1143752252/ref=sr_1_29/102-7524911-9768903?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

DRs Ron Pulliam and Francois, thank you!  I've been off the site for the past hour and a half with laundry and buying a used CD on Amazon.com!  I appreciate your kindness.  I remember the vinyl quite fondly.  
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 01:41:57 PM
BK if you could record a cast album of any Broadway show past or present , what would it be?
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 01:46:50 PM
BK if you could record a cast album of any Broadway show past or present , what would it be?

I know what I'd like to have that wasn't recorded - WHERE'S CHARLEY with Ray Bolger and Allyn Ann McLerie and LOVE LIFE with Nanette Fabray.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 01:57:44 PM
Well I shall be off now to brave the terrors of the LIE .  BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 02:05:59 PM
I'm watching the NBC news, and they're playing the newly released 911 calls for help from the World Trade Center on 9/11.  They're also interviewing the parents of the victim making the call from the 106th floor.  It's so sad.  And infuriating.

There was a humorous bit of gossip in the rags yesterday:  there was a showing of BASIC INSTINCT 2 and the writer said the most terrifying part of the film is Sharon Stone's implants.
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Post by: Ginny on March 30, 2006, 02:10:14 PM
Back after the first meeting of a new grants management committee - the top administrators of the library system, my manager, and l'il ole me.  My presentation was the bulk of the agenda and they took notes, asked questions, and even participated in the "audience participation" portion!  I was more nervous about today's presentation than I am about tomorrow's interview.  But, thanks for the vibes for that and keep 'em coming!
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 02:19:26 PM
BK if you could record a cast album of any Broadway show past or present , what would it be?

The COMPLETE Original Broadway Cast of Sondheim's Follies!!

I'd also love a recording of Angry Housewives.  This is a great show. :D
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 02:21:28 PM
Great news, DR Ginny, and continued good wishes for the interview.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 02:22:11 PM
Heading down to get a jump stgart on the chores and then maybe can watch some of TOPSY-TURVY before network TV starts.
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 02:31:15 PM
Note to Elmore:

Some Amazon.com seller has a copy of Where, Oh Where? for sale!

(Sorry! Had problems placing the link!!)

I'm crazy about Judy Kaye's talents and one of my favourite recordings of hers is the little known "Americanegro Suite" under the same label as "Where, Oh Where!"...

http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=5587 (http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=5587)

Some of us here on HHW have both of these recordings.  Just sayin'. ::)

;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 02:48:17 PM
A recording of ANGRY HOUSEWIVES would be very helpful to those doing a production of it!
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 02:48:41 PM
Slow day at the World of Wisdom....but it's nearly over.  Yes it is Thursday!
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 02:49:17 PM
Good job vibes for DRGINNY.

DRPENNYO - what deck do you use?  Or do you luse many?
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Post by: Ginny on March 30, 2006, 02:49:19 PM
Great news, DR Ginny, and continued good wishes for the interview.

Thanks, DR MattH.  

Now I'm off to a meeting in which we will decide how to disperse the proceeds from the used book sale I helped with a couple weeks ago.

Bye for now.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 30, 2006, 03:06:03 PM
Buy more books of course!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 30, 2006, 03:29:13 PM
Just learned that PERRY MASON vol 1 Season 1 (19 episodes) will be releasing in July!

I just love that show and I never tire of watching it! So I imagine I will be springing for this set as well as most of the rest of the season should they decide to do them all!
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 30, 2006, 03:51:58 PM
Did you know on the series Perry Mason just did preliminary hearings, not jury trials?
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Post by: Maria on March 30, 2006, 04:42:34 PM
I'm going to an interesting event tonight at the TV Academy. WOMEN IN PRIME. Dealing with women in front of and behind the camera in Prime Time. For those interested in taking a look, there will be a LIVE WEBCAST at www.emmys.tv which is scheduled to begin at around 8 PM PST.

Good line-up of panelists scheduled:
Diane Burroughs (Creator, Executive Producer, Still Standing)
Laura Innes (ER)
Melina Kanakaredes (CSI NY)
Janet Leahy (Executive Producer, Boston Legal)
Janel Moloney (West Wing)
Kathryn Morris (Cold Case)
CCH Pounder (The Shield)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Greer Shephard (Executive Producer, The Closer)
Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love)
And special guest Ms. Angela Lansbury

Should be fun. I'm hoping to say hi to Kyra Sedgwick at the reception afterwards. Haven't seen her since the 1993 Golden Globe Awards when she was nominated for Miss Rose White. During Rose White, BTW, she was invisibly pregnant with her (and Kevin Bacon's) daughter, Sosie, who now must be 14. How time flies!
Their son Travis was 3 at the time. He was very musical and, as I remember, Kevin B. had made him a little guitar which they played on the set while waiting for mom. Very sweet. After I came back from location (Richmond, Virginia as 1940's NY!) I sent them DD's miniature violin which she had outgrown.



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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:02:23 PM
I probably won't be able to join the festivities following the performance on Friday. My date for the evening would be overwhelmed.

When you said "we" I thought you meant you and Sandra. ;D
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:04:47 PM
I'm going to an interesting event tonight at the TV Academy. WOMEN IN PRIME. Dealing with women in front of and behind the camera in Prime Time. For those interested in taking a look, there will be a LIVE WEBCAST at www.emmys.tv which is scheduled to begin at around 8 PM PST.

Good line-up of panelists scheduled:
Diane Burroughs (Creator, Executive Producer, Still Standing)
Laura Innes (ER)
Melina Kanakaredes (CSI NY)
Janet Leahy (Executive Producer, Boston Legal)
Janel Moloney (West Wing)
Kathryn Morris (Cold Case)
CCH Pounder (The Shield)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Greer Shephard (Executive Producer, The Closer)
Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love)
And special guest Ms. Angela Lansbury

Should be fun. I'm hoping to say hi to Kyra Sedgwick at the reception afterwards. Haven't seen her since the 1993 Golden Globe Awards when she was nominated for Miss Rose White. During Rose White, BTW, she was invisibly pregnant with her (and Kevin Bacon's) daughter, Sosie, who now must be 14. How time flies!
Their son Travis was 3 at the time. He was very musical and, as I remember, Kevin B. had made him a little guitar which they played on the set while waiting for mom. Very sweet. After I came back from location (Richmond, Virginia as 1940's NY!) I sent them DD's miniature violin which she had outgrown.





That sounds like fun.  Unfortunately it will just be getting started at my bedtime so no webtime for me  :-\.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:06:55 PM
. During Rose White, BTW, she was invisibly pregnant with her (and Kevin Bacon's) daughter, Sosie, who now must be 14. How time flies!
Their son Travis was 3 at the time. He was very musical and, as I remember, Kevin B. had made him a little guitar which they played on the set while waiting for mom. Very sweet. After I came back from location (Richmond, Virginia as 1940's NY!) I sent them DD's miniature violin which she had outgrown.



Hmmm that means next time we play seven degrees from Kevin Bacon I can out me inthe equation, I know you, you know Kevin  ;D
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:07:37 PM
Jane , how is the health of the residents in your house?  Are you all ready for your weekend guests?
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:16:39 PM
I'm watching the NBC news, and they're playing the newly released 911 calls for help from the World Trade Center on 9/11.  They're also interviewing the parents of the victim making the call from the 106th floor.  It's so sad.  And infuriating.

I think this is absolutely dreadful.. The press has absolutely no sense of decency.  I have been doing everything in my power to avoid hearing these.  We lost many people from my town and only by the Grace of God did I not lose my brother and my cousin.   My brother was supposed to be in the World Trade Center at 8:30 AM and stopped at5 his midtown office for a file he had forgotten the night before, a phone call delayed him until nearly 9 at which point the first plane had hit and he stayed put coordinating  evacutation proceedings with his Trade Center branch by phone

My cousin was booked on the flight that hit the Pentagon and his business meeting was cancelled the evening before

If they had been so unfortunate as to have been where they were originally supposed to be the last thing I would want is their last moments played out on the TV for entertainment purposes.



I guess its human nature to enjoy the suffering of others,  look at all the people who used to attend public hangings and beheadings and witch burnings etc etc etc

it turns my stomach  
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:23:48 PM
Well that cheery topic chased everyone away
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:29:52 PM
Wow Vixmom, very chilling.  Keith had been in NY on business and returned home on the same flight number, only two days earlier, as the plane that crashed in PA.  I had really wanted to go with him and couldn’t.  If I had we most likely would have returned on that flight.

Thanks for asking.  Today I finally felt as if I were functioning a bit more normally thanks to the Benadryl I took the last two nights- plan to do so again tonight, just half a dose.  I was feeling so productive I decided to forgo my much needed walk and get some major errands done.  When I returned to my car I suddenly felt my throat bothering me again and everything getting worse, then I noticed a truck with hay parked next to me. ::)
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:32:38 PM
From Matt H:
Quote
Last year, BOSTON LEGAL was entered in the dramatic categories at the Emmys where Spader and Shatner both won in their respective categories. I read that this year, producer David E. Kelley is planning to submit the show in the comedy categories instead since there are many fewer competing shows. It should do very well this year with the nominating committees.

Interesting-thanks.

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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:37:18 PM
I'm glad you are feeling better Jane... now just  don't go rolling in any haystacks!!

I am also very glad that you weren't able to accompany Keith on that trip!!!!
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:38:03 PM
Bruce, while Keith enjoyed KING KONG more than you did, your assessment of the actors could have been a quote from him.
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:39:39 PM

Thanks and me too.  When disappointments in life happen they are often for the best and boy was that a perfect example.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:41:30 PM
Re: Boston Legal... I love how they casually slip in little  lines here and there that you could easily miss if you're not paying careful attention.

There was one episode where James Spader and William Shatner had no contact at all throughout the show. At the end, when they met for cigars,  William Shatner said " I feel like I didn't see you at all this episode"

Another time when William Shatner was talking to guest star Tom Sellek he starts out with the anology "We're very much alike, I'm a leading man, you're a leading man..."

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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:42:14 PM

From Ginny:
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Today I'm presenting a mini-version of my grantseeking basics workshop to the Library's senior management.  Tomorrow I have my interview, about which I received some insider info that came as a great relief   :-X


LOL- I had to look up this “lips sealed” guy.  I couldn’t understand why you were sad. ;D

GREAT VIBES tomorrow!
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 30, 2006, 05:52:49 PM
Well it looks like I will survive the week...now the question is whether I'll survive my niece, her friend and the Ashlee Simpson concert tomorrow night.  
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 05:56:26 PM
LOL-you are going to an Ashlee Simpson concert-LOL.  I look forward to hearing all about it.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 05:57:01 PM
Well it looks like I will survive the week...now the question is whether I'll survive my niece, her friend and the Ashlee Simpson concert tomorrow night.  
;D ;D\


~~~~Ashlee Simpson Survival Vibes~~~~~
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 06:11:32 PM
Now that we have all our new guest room furniture, bedding and various accents in place, come Monday we must move as much as possible out of there.  This must be done sometime on Monday morning between our weekend company leaving and the tear out crew for the adjoining guest bathroom arriving.  :-\
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 06:12:29 PM
After a rather longish week, and a busy, busy day today, I discovered that tomorrow will be relatively calm and quiet at work, so I'm taking a day off.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 06:13:07 PM
It has been three weeks since I last watched an episode of "Survivor"...don't know what's been going on or who's left.  

Come to think of it, I don't much care!

:D
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 06:15:44 PM
Ron- ;D

Enjoy your day off.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:15:58 PM
After a rather longish week, and a busy, busy day today, I discovered that tomorrow will be relatively calm and quiet and work, so I'm taking a day off.


good for you!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 06:16:06 PM
I'm really jazzed about there being a new episode of "Smallville" tonight.  It has been WEEKS since the last new episode (before the Olympics, if anyone remembers THEM).

And I have to admit I've taken a liking to "Supernatural", which is also fresh and new tonight.

I guess I'll be recording "Will and Grace" for a quick viewing later on...the show is about done forever...and each episode gets worse than the last, IMO.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 06:17:02 PM
Ron- ;D

Enjoy your day off.

Thanks, Jane.  I hope I can.  There are a bunch of little things I've been wanting to do lately.  Maybe tomorrow and the rest of the weekend will see them come to fruition.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 06:18:51 PM
DR FJL:  I'm thoroughly and totally jealous that you've been able to see the "new" "Lestat."

I saw it once, on New Year's Eve, actually...and found the second half a lot of fun.  

I'm glad to hear things have picked up in the first act.

Does Lestat, himself, have a kick-ass number along the lines of Claudia's?
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:19:38 PM
I never care what is happening on Survivor... or American Idol or The Race Around show either come to think of it...nor the Sopranos or Housewives, Desperate or otherwise or even the folks of Lost... lets face it I am completely out of touch with modern TV culture....


Lordy!  I've become uncool!!!










Oh, wait... I never was cool......













never mind
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 30, 2006, 06:21:04 PM
Does anyone here have the CD recording of "Blitz!"?

I had a "Gold Box" discount offer for it on Amazon.com and I ordered it...mainly because one of the reviews promised that if I loved "Oliver!" then I would love "Blitz!"

It's probably been discussed here in the past, but I don't recall what was said.
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 30, 2006, 06:23:32 PM
LOL-you are going to an Ashlee Simpson concert-LOL.  I look forward to hearing all about it.

My 16 year old niece called and said she was going to the concert with 16 year old friend and just wanted to spend the night at my house.  I really didn't want her to go alone, so I got some really good seats and I'm going with them,.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:25:16 PM
My 16 year old niece called and said she was going to the concert with 16 year old friend and just wanted to spend the night at my house.  I really didn't want her to go alone, so I got some really good seats and I'm going with them,.

You are a good auntie!!!
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 06:30:39 PM
Does anyone here have the CD recording of "Blitz!"?

I had a "Gold Box" discount offer for it on Amazon.com and I ordered it...mainly because one of the reviews promised that if I loved "Oliver!" then I would love "Blitz!"

It's probably been discussed here in the past, but I don't recall what was said.

I actually just got this myself last month!  I don't know if I (will eventually) love it as much as "Oliver!," but I certainly do enjoy it.  I recommend it, especially if you can get a discount. :)

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Post by: Cillaliz on March 30, 2006, 06:31:30 PM
You are a good auntie!!!

Thanks.
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 06:32:44 PM
I think it’s great you are taking the girls to the concert and I’m sure their parents are thrilled.  The only thing I refused to take the boys to, Keith had the pleasure, was to wrestling.  
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 06:33:13 PM
I've also gotten Lock Up Your Daughters, with lyrics by Lionel Bart, but I don't like that as much as Blitz!
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:36:04 PM
What is Blitz about?  I have never heard of it
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 06:49:19 PM
What is Blitz about?  I have never heard of it

I've only listened to it a couple of times, but click HERE (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009HLBIY/qid=1143772996/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-7701208-5864855?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) for the Amazon.com listing and HERE (http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=68lsi0hdk7n0?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Blitz%21&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc05b&linktext=Blitz!) for Wikipedia's entry about the musical....you should start with that. :)
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 06:51:04 PM
Here's the synopsis from Wikipedia:

The story focuses on two families, the Jewish Blitzteins and the Cockney Lockes. Mrs. Blitztein and Alfie Locke have adjacent stalls on Petticoat Lane: she sells herring, he sells fruit; they do not like each other. Their children, Georgie Locke and Carol Blitztein, are in love with one another. In the course of the plot, Carol is blinded in an air raid, Harry Blitztein (Carol's brother) deserts the army (failing to show up when he is mustered), and we learn that Harry has a girlfriend Joyce, who is married to another man.

Georgie comes home from the war injured and invalided, and still in love with Carol despite her blindness. They get married (her mother approves, his father does not). Immediately after the wedding, Mrs. Blitztein nearly dies in another air raid, and is rescued by Alfie in his role as an ARP warden; they reconcile. Harry goes back to the Army.

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Post by: Cillaliz on March 30, 2006, 06:51:14 PM
Think I'm going to have to call it an early night.  I have a big sentencing tomorrow and need to get some rest.
Title: Re:ZEN AND NOW
Post by: Cillaliz on March 30, 2006, 06:51:41 PM
But I may as well make it to 2400 posts.....night
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 06:56:31 PM
If you click on THIS (http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/640.html) article, you get a more detailed synopsis.  This link is one of the references in the Wikipedia article.
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:56:43 PM
Good night Cillaliz....
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 06:57:09 PM
Goodnight, Cillaliz!
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Post by: vixmom on March 30, 2006, 06:57:40 PM
Thank you George....  
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 06:59:43 PM
Did you know on the series Perry Mason just did preliminary hearings, not jury trials?

No wonder everything was wrapped up in an hour.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:00:36 PM
When you said "we" I thought you meant you and Sandra. ;D

My date for tomorrow evening is my son.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:01:21 PM
This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:01:45 PM
And this:
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:02:08 PM
And this:
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:02:30 PM
And this:
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:03:10 PM
These are "The Ladies." They live on my desk.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on March 30, 2006, 07:03:42 PM
Thus endeth my frenzy.
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 07:07:49 PM
Keith is playing a new computer game and the graphics are amazing, especially the faces.  
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Post by: George on March 30, 2006, 07:07:51 PM
Very nice pictures!

I'm now done with work.  I'm off to dinner, then home.  Laters! (our very own HHW Broadway Pit Musician reference! ;))
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 07:10:16 PM
We were watching an episode from the weather channel Storm Series.  This episode involved a sea rescue by the Coast Guard in Alaska.  We watched as our friend’s son jumped into the water to rescue a man from a lifeboat.  Cool!
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Post by: Jane on March 30, 2006, 07:12:43 PM
DRLaura :)
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Post by: FJL on March 30, 2006, 08:03:03 PM
DR Ron - I would say the Lestat character has several kick-ass numbers.  But for sheer crowd-pleasing, it seems there's nothing like a great comedy character, and Claudia's comedy number is an absolute hoot, as I'm sure it was in San Francisco, so much so that it immediately elevates the audience's affection for the character.  Lestat himself doesn't seem to be an appropriate character for the kind of funny stuff Elton John and Bernie Taupin clearly can write, though.  

POSSIBLE LESTAT MINOR SPOILER








But as far as I could tell, there's nothing wrong for the show overall for the audience to root for Claudia over Lestat, and that winds up packing a real punch.  (In a way, it's kind of what happened with the Randy Graff character in CITY OF ANGELS or the Miss Hannigan character in ANNIE or maybe even the Mrs. Meers chracter in MILLIE.  The supporting character gets the show-stopping moments, maybe even a bigger hand than the lead on some nights, but the show overall is better for it.)
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 08:04:34 PM
I tell you I have not stopped since nine this morning and I am zonked.  We did our line-through earlier, and then I began finishing the fixes (which I did), and then I began the task of rewriting a song I wasn't happy with, and that took hours and hours, but it's close to being done and it's much better and will actually be amusing, I think.
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Post by: Tomovoz on March 30, 2006, 08:10:56 PM
I'm fond of "Blitz".. I have a production of it on video as well.  The local production by a Youth theatre was attended by Lionel Bart who helped with the "missing" bits which had not made it to the existing LP.  The extra material is now on the CD.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:22:20 PM
I'm going to an interesting event tonight at the TV Academy. WOMEN IN PRIME. Dealing with women in front of and behind the camera in Prime Time. For those interested in taking a look, there will be a LIVE WEBCAST at www.emmys.tv which is scheduled to begin at around 8 PM PST.

Good line-up of panelists scheduled:
Diane Burroughs (Creator, Executive Producer, Still Standing)
Laura Innes (ER)
Melina Kanakaredes (CSI NY)
Janet Leahy (Executive Producer, Boston Legal)
Janel Moloney (West Wing)
Kathryn Morris (Cold Case)
CCH Pounder (The Shield)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Greer Shephard (Executive Producer, The Closer)
Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love)
And special guest Ms. Angela Lansbury

Should be fun.

What a marvelous panel. I watch and admire many opf these series and many of these women. Would love to hear your thoughts on this when you return.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:27:01 PM
Just back from a quick trip to at ATM to activate a new check card. I could have called a number but stupidly tossed it away before jotting it down. I suppose customer service could have helped me, too, but I needed cash anyway and also had a deposit, so I took care of all that in the one trip.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:29:33 PM
I watched about 70 minutes of TOPSY-TURVY tonight. Didn't remember some of what I resaw tonight and am enjoying it more the second time around.

This transfer is several years old now, but it holds up and looks and sounds quite good.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:30:01 PM
WILL & GRACE - - -

eh.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:31:39 PM
Since the 8:30 MY NAME IS EARL is a rerun, I started watching SMALLVILLE but only got about 20 minutes in. ENjoying the show and will look forward to finishing it up tomorrow.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 08:32:15 PM
This book is causing much ooh-ing and aah-ing among my coworkers today.  Some of them are too young, though, to get it:



Good grief is Twister even still around?
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:32:29 PM
CSI had a very unusual case dealing with a genius 12 year old girl and her efforts to outwit the team of CSIs. Kept me guessing for the entire hour.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:34:13 PM
And then WITHOUT A TRACE had a sad story about an abandoned family and their efforts to stay together. From what I knew about some of the conditions that kids I taught were living with, this tragic story tonight was more than likely based on a true story.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 08:34:42 PM
Back after the first meeting of a new grants management committee - the top administrators of the library system, my manager, and l'il ole me.  My presentation was the bulk of the agenda and they took notes, asked questions, and even participated in the "audience participation" portion!  I was more nervous about today's presentation than I am about tomorrow's interview.  But, thanks for the vibes for that and keep 'em coming!

Good luck Vibes to Ginny!!!
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Post by: Sandra on March 30, 2006, 08:37:22 PM
Thanks for the magic trick vibes for Tuesday. I probably should have looked at the schedule because then I would have known that the magic trick was today and Tuesday was my Orchestra concert. I'm glad I realized that Tuesday morning because that would have been awkward.

Anyway, the concert went well. The magic trick could have been better, meaning that it didn't go so well. It was a mind-reading thing. My volunteer from the audience had to think of a number and I had to say what it was. I couldn't tell if it was four or five, so I said five. It was four. Oy!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 08:37:33 PM
I'm going to an interesting event tonight at the TV Academy. WOMEN IN PRIME. Dealing with women in front of and behind the camera in Prime Time. For those interested in taking a look, there will be a LIVE WEBCAST at www.emmys.tv which is scheduled to begin at around 8 PM PST.

Good line-up of panelists scheduled:
Diane Burroughs (Creator, Executive Producer, Still Standing)
Laura Innes (ER)
Melina Kanakaredes (CSI NY)
Janet Leahy (Executive Producer, Boston Legal)
Janel Moloney (West Wing)
Kathryn Morris (Cold Case)
CCH Pounder (The Shield)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Greer Shephard (Executive Producer, The Closer)
Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love)
And special guest Ms. Angela Lansbury

Should be fun. I'm hoping to say hi to Kyra Sedgwick at the reception afterwards. Haven't seen her since the 1993 Golden Globe Awards when she was nominated for Miss Rose White. During Rose White, BTW, she was invisibly pregnant with her (and Kevin Bacon's) daughter, Sosie, who now must be 14. How time flies!
Their son Travis was 3 at the time. He was very musical and, as I remember, Kevin B. had made him a little guitar which they played on the set while waiting for mom. Very sweet. After I came back from location (Richmond, Virginia as 1940's NY!) I sent them DD's miniature violin which she had outgrown.





Maria, sounds like an exciting and interesting evening.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 08:39:27 PM
Well it looks like I will survive the week...now the question is whether I'll survive my niece, her friend and the Ashlee Simpson concert tomorrow night.  

Ashlee Simpscon Concert survival vibes to Cilla~~
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Post by: Sandra on March 30, 2006, 08:41:42 PM
Vibes for Dear Reader Ginny! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Right now I'm (supposedly) trying to do my homework. If anyone wants to say anything really insightful about Darl in As I Lay Dying, I won't stop you.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 08:43:16 PM
Lovely pictures DR Laura!
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 08:49:42 PM
I'm trying my hardest to watch the new DVD of High Anxiety, which I was hoping time would have been kind to.  It hasn't.  It's one of the unfunniest movies I've ever seen - labored, shticky, and filled with the kind of "comic" acting I abhor - Ron Clark, Harvery Korman, and Howie Morris, all made my teeth hurt.  They're great in sketch comedy, but on film they're horrendous.  What happened to the Mel Brooks of The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and his finest hour, Young Frankenstein?  Everything after the latter pales, I'm afraid, despite sporadic amusing bits.

The real question is - to sweet or not to sweet?  I think the former, don't you?
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:53:18 PM
I had a similar reaction to HIGH ANXIETY upon seeing it within the last month on the Fox Movie Channel. Spectacularly unfunny, and I remember laughing a good bit at it when I first saw it all those years ago. But there really is no story here. Just lame bits spoofing famous Hitchcock moments and style.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:55:05 PM
I still have all the movies in the Busby Berkeley box to watch, too. Well, I'll pass on 42nd STREET since I'm sure all that's changed is the keep case. I'll probably start with Cagney's FOOTLIGHT PARADE.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 08:57:15 PM
I'm sure fans of THE AMAZING RACE know by now that CBS has moved it to Wednesday night at 8 starting this coming week.

What this means for OUT OF PRACTICE and COURTING ALEX, I don't know, but I'm guessing it's not positive.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 30, 2006, 09:09:21 PM
Heading down for bed now.

Good night, all!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on March 30, 2006, 09:44:42 PM
I still like Mel singing the title song in the piano lounge, but, yeah, it ain't Blazing Saddles...
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 10:05:08 PM
I'm slogging through it - the lounge scene is fine, and Cloris Leachman is amusing and Madeline Kahn tries hard with no material, but I'd say 90% of this film is just awful.  Of course, over on the imdb it's hailed as perhaps the greatest comedy ever made and Mel's best.  What's fascinating about that, however, is if you go back to the last two pages of comments (the earliest comments) you'll see most of them are negative (correctly so).  It's almost as if the Mel fan club arrived en masse to combat the bad "reviews".
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 10:38:51 PM
Two of my movied came in via ILL: House Made of DAwn and Cheyenne Autumn...

I will have to put on my student hat....  I promise to be gentle on CArol Baker...

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Post by: Maria on March 30, 2006, 11:07:30 PM
What a marvelous panel. I watch and admire many opf these series and many of these women. Would love to hear your thoughts on this when you return.

Well, DR Matt H, to start with the positive - Angela Lansbury was an absolute pleasure. She looked classy, was witty, wise and knowledgeable. She got a surprise award at the end of the evening for her groundbreaking contribution to women in television. Before the award, they showed a little film about her career. Amazing to see it encapsulated like that. She's done it all - and beautifully.
As for the rest of the evening... Disappointing. There were too many panelists to get a real discussion going. The women were bright and accomplished, without a doubt, but there was no opportunity for give and take. And the moderator was not the greatest. (Call me crazy - but in an evening about women in television, why have 12 women panelists with a man asking all the questions? There isn't one woman in town who could have done the job??)
The one panelist who couldn't make it because of a late shoot was -- Kyra. Skammen. However, as fate would have it, the wonderful actress K Callan sat next to me. We had a great conversation before and after the show. Weirdly enough, it turns out that she's guesting on The Closer this week and will be seeing Kyra tomorrow. So she'll pass on the hello that I was hoping to say.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 11:54:03 PM
THe snow is finally melting here and now we are getting rain!
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 11:55:29 PM
A MAN?  Heaven forfend!  Not a MAN!  Why, that's TERRIBLE!  
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 11:56:31 PM
I'm quite irked with all this WUSSBURGERING.  Whatever happened to our late-night denizens and posting frenzies.  Why, I remember a time when on two occasions we had four pages of posts by one in the morning.  Gone are the days, I suppose.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 11:56:33 PM
my snack for working on my paper!!
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Post by: bk on March 30, 2006, 11:56:49 PM
What is Gone Are The Days an alternate title for?
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 11:57:27 PM
I could make caramel corn....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 11:58:04 PM
Ahhhhh
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 11:58:38 PM
thinking....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 30, 2006, 11:59:08 PM
Hello Dolly?
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 31, 2006, 12:00:24 AM
Have you seen House made of Dawn?

I have to work up bravery tomorrow and watch it. The book was a hard slog
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 31, 2006, 12:01:11 AM
Smoke Signals was an interesting movie...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 31, 2006, 12:02:02 AM
I hoep to find Dreamkeepers for the main characters in the movie are from the Rosebud Sioux nation.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 31, 2006, 12:03:27 AM
Sheesh I need to post faster If i want 2000 by tomorrow midnight
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Post by: DakotaCelt on March 31, 2006, 12:03:53 AM
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