Haines His Way

BK-
Do you have fond memories of the Z Channel?
I'm watching a documentary about it right now. It sounds like it was incredible.

Off to bed.  Goodnight all!

HEINOUS, baby, HEINOUS!

And now - Dino at the piano.

And I?  I shall now toddle off to the bedroom environment for my beauty sleep.

Also, I might add, this documentary was made in a simple style. The footage consisted of tons of film footage, shots of the Z Channel's magazine, interview subjects speaking and some slow-mo LA scenery.

You know something is done well when it makes you nostalgic for something you didn't even experience!

Dear Friend BK, it's been lousy here with allergies as well.  Of course, part of the problem is that every blooming tree on 82nd Street and the trees in Central Park and Riverside Park have their pollen wafted through my window and up my sinuses by an ill wind blowing no good whatsoever.  Bring your medications with you.

DRGeorge, I loved your photos, but I fear your back yard is the main source of allergy problems on the west coast!

DRTCB, I, too, liked the film PHANTOM OF THE OPERA more than the stage show, but what was a magical scenic effect onstage ofthe candelabra rising from the floor was totally moronic in the film.  The other big problem I had was chronologic: Mme Giry is about twice Raoul's and Christine's age, being Meg's mother, but in the black and white sequences she looks no older than Patrick Wilson in his LITTLE BIG MAN makeup.  If he's 80 at the end, she's got to be pushing 100!  There were other silly things as well:  Emmy Rossum wearing a gown cut to her nipples and only a flimsy cape to visit her father's tomb during a snowfall,  Emmy Rossum in her underwear on the roof of the Paris Opera and Patrick Wilson refusing to acknowledge that she has a problem with frozen nipples.  I thought the film looked great, much better than the show; Joel Schumaker is living proof that you can take the director out of shop window decorating but you can't always take the decorator out of the director.

DRCharlesPogue, I may miss your HERCULES tomorrow evening due to pre-surgical demands.  I hope it will be on DVD in the near future.  I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Here is a photo from one of the very first info commercials selling quick bake ovens with our very own BK

Last night, bk wrote: "MattH, if you are talking about that documentary on The Third Man that TMC has been airing, that is just about the worst piece of merde I've ever seen.  The writer, producer, director ought to have his writing, producing, directing license revoked, since the documentary was more about him and his offensive hip with-it technique than it was about The Third Man.  If they cut to the projector with the film running amok one more time I would have flown to the UK to personally brain the cretin."


Yep, that's the one. I found it VERY annoying to have portions of the film being shown on lampshades and blinds and vases.

However, there was some interesting information imparted about Welles' demands and Selznick's involvement that I didn't know so in that regard, I didn't find the doc a total loss. But the motif for the film was definitely irritating, and while I had planned to dub a DVD-R of it to add to my Criterion DVD, I thought better of it after it concluded, and I didn't do it.

I’m starting to think I have Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom around here.  Late yesterday, I went into the back yard and found a two foot black snake!

Now if you have to run across a snake, a black snake is a very fine fellow to find.  They are non poisonous and are very good to have around.  My only beef with them is that they eat lizards.

Most snakes will turn tail and “run” if given the chance and that’s just what this guy did.  I chased him to make sure he went out of the yard so the dogs wouldn’t harm him and that was that.  

DR Jane, it wouldn’t be worth the bandwidth for me to list EVERY Sci Fi book I have read.  Anyway, I bet I’ve forgotten more then I can name.    

 

As I look at my window on a Sunday morning at seven-forty, there are people walking briskly.  Are they NUTS?

Now, see the line of the table at the bottom.  That's where the frame line should end in 1:85.  See with top of the window?  That's where the frame line should end in 1:85.  That is why open matte is a travesty.

What does 1:85 mean?

Hmmmmmmmmm....have the sparkling prizes for TFNM question fest been sent?

Hmmmmmmmmm....actually just LAST Sunday, I did suggest a topic:  What was your favorite picture of your Mother?

Good auction vibes to DRDANISE.....the snake-bird lady.

My Yahoo Mail is down completely this morning.....there must be some issues at YAHOO!!