Haines His Way

DR TCB --    I thought I should let you know that the Bijou has finished their run of "Intolerance" and will be showing "Ella Cinders" with Miss Coleen Moore starting this next week.  Organ score by Ann Leaf at the Wurlitzer.

It's a nasty, ugly day here in Oakland CA....rainy, misty, dark, gloomy, cold and on top of that, my stomach is cranky.

HHW does cheer me up from time to time, though.

: )

Dear esteemed, busy, frenetic, and productive BK --

Hmmmmm, so, Cafe Bizou tonight and no invitation for DR Kerry and myself??     Well tarnation, now it is too late in the day to drive over.  Have an especially yummy bite of something for us, OK?

We also don't see too many "in-theatre" movies, however "Under The Tuscan Sun" was absolutely rich and beautiful on the big screen.  I'd also like to see Runaway Jury.

I haven't played Life in ages, but I DO love Trivial Pursuit.  I just have a talent for storing weird random pieces of information in my head.

A girl after my own heart.  I, too, have a mind filled with worthless crap.

Always been a board game fan, but had the same trouble MattH did of not having people around too interested in playing them with me.  During my senior year of HS, we had a group of us who would get together every couple weeks and play TRIVIAL PURSUIT.  My friend Joey and I always battled it out right to the end.  Beyond that, CLUE was always a favorite.  Whenever my cousin Wesley was in town, we'd play GO FOR IT.  Also played a fair amount of PAYDAY and LIFE.  UNCLE WIGGILY... heck yeah!  I do believe that one's still in Grandma's closet somewhere.  Like someone else (I forget at the moment... Matt? Ron?), I always had horrible luck with SORRY, so it was never a favorite of mine at all.

For more recent games, I do really enjoy BALDERDASH and its counterpart BEYOND BALDERDASH, which includes dates and such in addition to definitions.  And I'm undefeated at TABOO.

DR TCB --   In reality, I really liked Miss Moore's silent film work, and have played Ella Cinders a number of times.  A friend of mine knew her address, wrote to her about me playing her films, and she sent me back the nicest 8x10 of herself and personally autographed to me.

Now that's a classy lady!  DR Kerry had a similar response from Miss Kim Novak, when he wrote to her years ago.  We still have the picture and note up in our gallery.

Well, it seems no one had a  guess about “Shadows of the Night” aka  "Quentins Theme” from Dark Shadows.

Just saw our weather and we're going to get cold this weekend.  It will rain tomorrow and then the cold will set in.  Joy.  I so love the cold.  Errrrr.   Or should I say Burrr?

Oh, I forgot--Voice from the Mummys Tomb--Now THAT was GREAT game along with Bats in Your Belfry.

Then again, EVERYONE knows I'm trying to marry an american.
So far I've had:

Mr. Florida/ California
Mr. New York
Mr. Pennsylvania/ DC

There are sooooo many states left to cover.

I happen to know that Washington state has great guys to offer.

Favorite ice cream really has to be broken into 2 categories for me.

First, for a flavor scooped right out of a tub and into a cone (with no alterations or additions)...either Hagen-Dazs Cookies & Cream, or Baskin-Robbins Gold Medal Ribbon.

But as far as an "ice cream creation," it would be either a big scoop of H-D Vanilla with my own homemade (seedless) raspberry sauce on it, or a Hot Fudge Sundae from C.C. Brown's.    

By the way DR Jed --  I roughly understand the first 2 phrases in your quote at the bottom of your page (in French), but what is the last part, about "le singe...."??

DR MattH --- Well, try staying warm by slipping into Pernell Roberts,,,,,I mean a warm blanket..

MusicGuy: You mean drive over from Arizona?

Re Grammys - the cast album is a curious category.  If there's a well-known rock producer in the batch, that's who wins.  If there's a really popular thing like Riverdance (which had been all over PBS the year it was up) that wins (over Rent, I believe).   So,  my guess is that the Billy Joel (simply because of his name) has a good shot, even though it's probably the least interesting album.  Nine has a chance ONLY because of its star.  FDS has no shot.  Because the general membership are the voters and because few of them will have actually heard any of these, it's what name is familiar to them.  Plain and simple.

BK--that really saddens me that that's how the Grammy's work when it comes to cast albums.  I know it would be really small and unpublicized, but do you think they should have an award show for theatre music recordings similar to the MAC's, maybe?  Maybe they already do have one and I'm just not aware of it.  But at least that way cast albums would win awards based on merit, and not politics or name-recognition.

Trivial Pursuit was invented in a Montreal bar...

betcha all didn't know that!

I used to play with some of them when I worked at a local radio station. Weeklye trivial  pursuit games.

Maya - I've always played with that 1983 Genus edition, too.  Gotta love when half the Geography answers are "Soviet Union."

MusicGuy - "Le chat est sur la chaise, la souris est sous la table, et le singe est sur la branche" translates to "The cat is on the chair, the mouse is under the table, and the monkey is on the branch."  It's from Eddie Izzard (very funny British stand-up) talking about his early French lessons.

George - Yes, I do remember AGGRAVATION.  I think it's still in Grandma's closet somewhere, too!