Topic: THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING DAYS (Read 30235 times)

George · « **Reply #120 on:** March 02, 2005, 01:58:39 PM »

What's everybody waiting for??

AND ONE FOR MAHLER!!

Jane · « **Reply #121 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:04:21 PM »

Benedict/Benedick is SO cute. If we ever get a dog again she should have short hair.

Too many smells to name that make me sick. A good number of food smells were added to my list once I became pregnant with Craig.

Mosby the Grey Ghost is very handsome. I see DRLaura agrees with me.

Jane · « **Reply #122 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:11:22 PM »

Joey, my condolences to you and your family. The poem is a beautiful reminder the people we loose are always with us. I’m sorry you didn’t have one more visit with your grandmother, but you will now remember her as she was, not just the last weeks of her life.

Matt H. · « **Reply #123 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:11:24 PM »

What a coincidence. I mention Ilene Kristen and her role as Roxie on ONE LIFE TO LIVE and voila! she gets an Emmy nomination today for featured actress in a dramatic series!

Joey · « **Reply #124 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:32:38 PM »

Thanks to everyone. I just realized this, but she is the main reason I have such a love of Irving Berlin. She introduced me to White Christmas at a very young age and was the reason it became a tradition to watch it in our family. I may have to pop it in tonight in memory.

bk · « **Reply #125 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:40:39 PM »

Jane, do you use a 2.4gh phone? If so, you will continue to have wireless problems.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #126 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:53:50 PM »

EEEE. I AM VEXED. Somehow somewhere my entire book file in my favourites has disappeared. It had all my favourite book sites in it. Oddly, enough several of them ended up in favourites after the particular file disappeared. I've been able to gather most of the ones I use regularly, but it's very irritating. I have no idea how in indvertantly disappear. If I deleted it,it is no where in my recycle file.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #127 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:56:25 PM »

Aha! I just found it. It is somehow become a subfile under entertainment and sports. I have now taken it out of entertainment and sports (in which there is nothing that I've ever used) and made it's own individual file once more.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #128 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:59:24 PM »

God thing I found that file...It has about forty-five different sites bookmarked.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #129 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:05:30 PM »

I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your grandmother, Joey. My prayers are with your family at this difficult time.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #130 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:27:14 PM »

Jose asked about collections.
Of course, I have a lot of records, but that is an ongoing thing. Never will I stop! Even though I am running out of space.
I have kept all my old matchbox cars in a briefcase.
I have a hard time getting rid of books.
Archie comics.
The Gal's got a thing for lunchboxes...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #131 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:32:00 PM »

I doubt that my collection of Allison Hayes ephemera will ever be worth much. I also have lots of programs and playbills and newspaper clippings from various local shows I have been involved in - not of much interest to anyone but me.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #132 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:32:36 PM »

Okay, here is a question for any and all. What is the oddest item you own? Something you keep around perhaps because it is so strange. Or because you have no choice.

I have a sand dollar to which someone has expertly and seamlessly enameled the face of Cap'n Crunch.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #133 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:43:44 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on March 02, 2005, 03:32:00 PM

I doubt that my collection of Allison Hayes ephemera will ever be worth much. I also have lots of programs and playbills and newspaper clippings from various local shows I have been involved in - not of much interest to anyone but me.

Don't be too sure about that! As long as her movies exist, someone is going to treasure these items.

vixmom · « **Reply #134 on:** March 02, 2005, 03:47:36 PM »

Quote from: Joey on March 02, 2005, 11:41:31 AM

Well I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but my grandma passed away about 3 am Eastern Time. I had gotten a call right before I went out to dinner at an older couple from our church's home last night. They called to tell me that she had quit responding and just had a glazed over look. Then I recieved another call at about 6 am with the news. We only found out about the cancer a week and a half ago so it was fairly quick. I am sad that she didn't last long enough for me to get up there to say my goodbye, but I take comfort in knowing that she didn't have to suffer anymore. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. They do mean quite a bit.

Dear Joey,

I am so sorry for your loss and I am so proud to know a young man of your spiritual strength and wisdom. You and your family will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.

bk · « **Reply #135 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:03:56 PM »

I have many odd items, which I keep around for a variety and also a hollywood reporter of reasons.

MALAPROP!

I got three count them three packages today - one had a new Joe Hisaishi soundtrack, one had three new DVDs from France, Berlin Express, Hot Spot (aka I Wake up Screaming) and Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, and finally, a DVD of Bitter Victory, un film de Nicholas Ray.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #136 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:13:06 PM »

Shucks! And all I got was a DVD of Mankiewicz's "Suddenly, Last Summer."

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #137 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:23:27 PM »

Did somebody say collections? If I have something longer than five minutes, I become attached to it. I would say that most everything I collect either has senitmental, monetary, or research value to me.

There are, of course, the books...something like six thousand (estimate)

I also have a burgeoning bookmark collection...a very cheap hobby, as I collect them from almost every bookstore I go into...I say only a few are rare.

I have theatre programmes, I suspect, from almost every show I ever saw.

I have boxes of magazines...PLAYBOYS back from the sixties, old movie mags, play mags (A lot of Theatre Arts), Show magazine...

I have boxes and stacks of comic books that go back to the Silver Age and some even from the fifties (Talk about no monetary value, when I was a kid I tore the covers off my Tarzan comics to tack to my wall...so I have a stack of coverless Tarzans).

I stopped adding to my walking stick collection sometime ago. I have a very small, but odd collection of buttons, I have baseball cards dating from the seventies (I wish I still had the ones I collected in the fifties), I have boxes and boxes of personal memorabilia...clippings and all kinds of crap from my writing career, acting career, and high school stuff). I have a ton of vinyl, including 78s. Rolls of my posters from my own movies (one of these days I'll sit at the Courts show and charge an outrageous to sign them).

I have files and boxes of every working draft, every outline, every note I jotted down on a napkin or scrap of paper from my film and play scripts. I expect these will eventually be donated to my alma mater or whoever wants them.

I also have a couple of boxes of class notebooks and papers from high school and college. I recently went through this and chucked a lot of it out...I'll never need Algebra notes again. But a lot of them I just kept because along with my notes were tons of doodles and sketches I had done.

Perhaps the most useless collection that my wife and I share is the hoard of greeting cards that we have given each other over the years for the various holidays and special occasions. We have tried to do some winnowing of them in the last few years, but some of them are just hysterically funny or the sentiments and jokes we've written in them are just something that we can't part with...So they sit in boxes crammed in closets like the little firetraps they are...

Kerry · « **Reply #138 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:24:48 PM »

In "The Palm Beach Story," I loved the outfit Claudette Colbert came up with made up of Rudy Vallee's pajamas and a tablecloth or something. Very stylish.

Not only was Joel McCrea a wonderful leading man, he seemed to be a very nice man. He and Frances Dee had a lovely life. Did you ever read his interview with John Kobal? Most worthwhile!!!!

Kobal's interview with Ann Sheridan is breathtaking.

Bruce- in answer to your question, one goes to "The Little Gym Bag Sort of Thing with Lots of Pockets That Will Fit In The Overhead Storage Compartment" store.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #139 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:26:53 PM »

BK, you know what Orson Welles used to say..."The French critics come up to you and say, 'You are one of the three greatest directors ever.' I smile and nod as they continue: 'There is you, John Ford,...and Nicholas Ray.' I stop smiling. It's always that third name that kills you."

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #140 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:27:51 PM »

Kerry, no one aged more beautifully than Frances Dee. She was a strikingly beautiful woman well into old age.

Michael · « **Reply #141 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:29:17 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 02, 2005, 01:20:03 PM

DR Michael, you KNOW I would never intentionally slight you. It was purely a case of honest senility. Back in those Fidonet years, I had LOTS of folks sending me stuff, and I was sharing what I had with others in return.

Let me say clearly to all how much I continue to appreciate this wonderful gift from years ago. And now that I am reminded who sent it to me, it makes it even more special and revered.

BLUSH BLUSH

Actually my comment was very tongue in cheek. I was not slighted at all. There has to be a way to write things to make it not look serious.

Michael · « **Reply #142 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:32:58 PM »

So sorry to hear about your grandmother, My thoughts and best wishes are with you at this very difficult time.

Kerry · « **Reply #143 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:36:43 PM »

The ads for "Bambi" say that it "is beautifully restored beyond its original brilliance." (emphasis mine) First, is this actually possible (kind of like 110%)? Second, the original was brilliant enough. Third, is it worth getting? Are there extras? I love "Bambi" although I can never watch it all at once-- it gets to me too much.

Michael · « **Reply #144 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:37:55 PM »

My question is for BK and Elmoore. The cost of hiring studio musicians is expensive as everyone I am sure knows. In order to keep costs in line and not resorting to electronic substituting. I am wondering if the following is a viable solution to give a recording a fuller/symphonic sound with a smaller ensemble of players.

Can the orchestrator construct the parts so that the same players can be multitracked playing the instruments to give the more expansive sound.

Michael · « **Reply #145 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:40:00 PM »

Did anyone here about Song buying the BMG (RCA) label and when did it happen?

This might be a plus to cast album collectors when a show has multiple recordings and they were recorded originally by Columbia and RCA the kings of the cast recordings.

Michael · « **Reply #146 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:41:17 PM »

I have a cd of Sondheim sing Sondheim and he does have a pleasant voice. I am hoping that the demo material that is being release will have a lot of gems and have been remastered for cd.

Michael · « **Reply #147 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:43:25 PM »

Does anyone know who has the rights to the Ben Bagley recordings?

How did he record the material? Was it multi-tracked so that is someone wants to re-release them they can "clean" them up?

bk · « **Reply #148 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:46:39 PM »

Michael, that is what my entire recording career is based on. I came up with the theory on the very first album - that we'd have two reed players, two trumpets, one French horn (later two), one trombone, and then we'd double them - in essence allowing the orchestrators to write for four reeds, four trumpets, two horns, and two trombones. Worked like a charm and now, of course, others do what we did. We did teach these B'way folks a trick or two. Same with the strings - we originally had three violins, one viola, one cello, and they'd go down three times, making a nice string section. When we finally began having the orchestra in the room all at the same time, I upped the number of violins to five and we only did two passes.

Michael · « **Reply #149 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:47:19 PM »

Quote from: Kerry on March 02, 2005, 04:36:43 PM

The ads for "Bambi" say that it "is beautifully restored beyond its original brilliance." (emphasis mine) First, is this actually possible (kind of like 110%)? Second, the original was brilliant enough. Third, is it worth getting? Are there extras? I love "Bambi" although I can never watch it all at once-- it gets to me too much.

There is documentaries on the making of it, the restoration, the Disney Studio in 1941, the original trailer, a recreation of the Disney production meetings for Bambi, the art of Bambi. There might be others.

The restoration is beautiful, from what I watched yesterday.

Since this was done in technicolor it would have been interesting to see if they redid tge film in Warner's Ultra Resolution (or whatever they call it)

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