Topic: AHA (Read 35902 times)

vixmom · « **Reply #120 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:42:19 PM »

Quote from: TPunk on August 01, 2005, 01:19:29 PM

Thanks Vixmom. No empty liquor bottles but I am hoping that my exit interview with my boss's boss tomorrow morning has a similar effect.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #121 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:47:32 PM »

Well, the tired old canard is out again. John Wayne's no actor. I beg to disagree. While he wouldn't have been my choice in '69, his performance in True Grit is fine! and he probably deserved a nod for either The Quiet Man or The Searchers. Give him the right material and the right director and could give a great nuanced performance.

vixmom · « **Reply #122 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:51:35 PM »

sorry abou the wide screen.. I am trying to fix it but it wont let me unattach my attachment. or DELETE the mesage....

vixmom · « **Reply #123 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:52:04 PM »

oh wait that time it worked.... never mind...

FJL · « **Reply #124 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:52:28 PM »

I totally forgot that Rachel York in V/V was one of the egregiously overlooked. I'm in such total denial over her non-nomination that I was startled by its being mentioned. That was a fabulous performance, which I saw four times, having had some strange need to see all of the Victorias.

York amazed me in three roles lately, as Mother in RAGTIME recently at Paper Mill, as Ruth in DESSA ROSE at Lincoln Center, and as the lead in SUMMER OF '42 in the benefit concert at (appropriately) the York. Seeing her do those three roles within a matter of a month or so was (dare I say it since the word is overused) a revelation.

Jason · « **Reply #125 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:54:12 PM »

FJL: I loved Rachel in DESSA ROSE, though the show itself left me cold. I didn't get to see RAGTIME at Paper Mill, but I heard she was great. I've loved her in everything I've seen her do. Except maybe that Lucy movie...

The only Victoria I saw was Toni Tennille. Yikes!!

Jason · « **Reply #126 on:** August 01, 2005, 01:55:13 PM »

I just noticed that I've got serious 'crazy-eye' going on in my Avatar. What's up with that?!?!

vixmom · « **Reply #127 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:00:42 PM »

OK time to brave the LIE....

FJL · « **Reply #128 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:03:19 PM »

Jason: I did miss Toni Tennille. Did she do V/V in New York? Or was she on tour? (I thought I'd seen all of them; I even saw the great understudy/standby, Anne Runnolfson, who actually made more emotional sense of the role than Andrews, Minnelli or Welch.)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #129 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:04:12 PM »

Pat McCormick was also good in the Robert Downey Sr. film RENTED LIPS, which was pretty much a theft of the FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL, only Martin Mull and Dick Shawn are industrial documentarians who end up making a porn film.

Ginny · « **Reply #130 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:05:17 PM »

My workplace has been reeling today from the news that two staff members have died. One had been ill with emphysema for a long time, but the other (our beloved Young Adult Specialist) was at work Friday. He became ill at home this morning, made his own 911 call, and was gone by the time they got there.

Matt H. · « **Reply #131 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:05:17 PM »

Yep MY WORLD was prior to MARY TYLER MOORE and PHYLLIS.

That's a show I'd love to see its one season come out on DVD. I have fond memories of it.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #132 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:08:31 PM »

Two amazing parcels from HHW folks arrived today! A two-CD collection of Brill Building hits and rarities from Tomovoz, which I am enjoying as I type.

AND...

The New Christy Mintrels "Wandering Minstrels" LP from DR George, which completes my set of NCM Lps from their golden era. That one had eluded me for many years.

Thanks fellas! Very kind and generous. What a great site this is.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #133 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:08:54 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on August 01, 2005, 01:25:54 PM

As far as I'm concerned, The Producers was the show that saved musical theatre for me. I had been sour on B'way musical for a few years (Titanic and Side Show had just about done me in.) But then along came Bialy and company, and I've been a fan ever since. I was lucky enough to see the original cast twice, and both times I came away aching from laughing. I play the recording incessantly and never tire of it. I think it deserved every Tony that it won, hands down.

Amen! It was one of the best times I've ever had in a theatre as an audience member.

Matt H. · « **Reply #134 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:08:58 PM »

I saw Rachel York for the first time in CITY OF ANGELS and she, along with the other fabulous females in that ensemble cast, just blew me away.

Her rendition of "Lost and Found" on the cast recording is sensational.

She has been criminally neglected for awards and recognition.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #135 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:09:21 PM »

Very sorry to hear that news Ginny.

Ann · « **Reply #136 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:09:37 PM »

Now I can't remember who mentioned Take On Me today...but thanks to them, it'll be in my head for the rest of the day!

Matt H. · « **Reply #137 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:11:49 PM »

I had no idea until I read the review in the newspaper that in the current national tour of PETER PAN with Cathy Rigby, Captain Hook is being played by the marvelous Howard McGillan.

Jed · « **Reply #138 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:13:00 PM »

Quote from: Ann on August 01, 2005, 02:09:37 PM

Now I can't remember who mentioned Take On Me today...but thanks to them, it'll be in my head for the rest of the day!

If you manage to get it out of your head by the time you get home from work, I'll do my best to get it back in there.

Matt H. · « **Reply #139 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:17:19 PM »

Speaking of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and Howard McGillin, I was delighted when it won Best Musical but very disappointed when Patti Cohenour lost the featured actress Tony that year to Bebe Neuwirth in SWEET CHARITY. Bebe's wonderful, but Nikki is hardly a fantastic role in comparison to Rosa Budd in DROOD.

Now, to be fair, I didn't see that SWEET CHARITY revival (I had seen the original as a teen), but I knew the character and unless Bebe did something earthshaking with the part, I can't believe Patti's rapturous singing and delightful acting lost to her. Of course, Jana Schneider was also up from DROOD and maybe votes for a DROOD actress were split allowing Bebe to win.

Matt H. · « **Reply #140 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:19:26 PM »

Talking of all these awards makes me wish they would release the vote totals after the ceremony is over like the Oscars used to do in the "old" days.

Ginny · « **Reply #141 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:22:12 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on August 01, 2005, 02:09:21 PM

Very sorry to hear that news Ginny.

Thanks, DR Rodzinski, fellow NCM fan.

bk · « **Reply #142 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:23:35 PM »

I must agree on the Duke, Mr. John Wayne. He was a wonderful actor - and the two mentioned films, The Quiet Man and The Searchers, would not be the masterpieces that they are without him. I'll tell you something - I'd rather watch The Duke than the De Niro any day of the week.

bk · « **Reply #143 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:24:54 PM »

Rented Lips and Orgazmo - two films that derived their existence from The First Nudie Musical (with Orgazmo ripping off one of Nudie's most famous lines wholesale), neither one of which had the good taste to at least acknowledge the "homage."

Jason · « **Reply #144 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:33:43 PM »

FJL: Toni was the tour Victoria. I'd rather have seen Raquel. I think I saw Anne Runnolfson in PHANTOM on B'way - maybe on tour. I can't remember. I can't believe you saw V/V four times!

Of course, I saw VAMPIRES five time...but for totally different reasons!

Ben · « **Reply #145 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:43:16 PM »

Ginny, so sorry to hear about your co-workers.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #146 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:46:17 PM »

I'll tell you something, also...I avoid the Duke, The DeNiro and the Pacino at all turns.

And I don't believe in "best" of year awards given for "lifetime achievements."

"True Grit" was neither Wayne's best nor the best acting of the year.

Ginny · « **Reply #147 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:56:39 PM »

Quote from: Ben on August 01, 2005, 02:43:16 PM

Ginny, so sorry to hear about your co-workers.

Thanks, Ben. Time for me to go home now...

Tomovoz · « **Reply #148 on:** August 01, 2005, 02:58:52 PM »

Quote from: bk on August 01, 2005, 10:22:43 AM

In the case of these two blurbs, I know the authors and I simply asked them to do it, with the only caveat being that they DON'T do it if they don't like the book. Happily, they both really liked it, hence the blurbs.

Tomovoz is now the second order I've found that didn't get printed out. I'm going to now have to cross reference every order with the paypal page. Very very disturbing.

Thank you for checking BK. I still have "Bollywood" Cds to listen to if desperate and some wonderful Mahatten Transfers. I'll make it through the wait.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #149 on:** August 01, 2005, 03:13:18 PM »

Memory? Senility?
I think there was a mention of it before Bk (was it the rights?) but was "Where's Charlie" recorded alongside "After The Ball" - given that it was virtually the same cast?

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