Haines His Way

DR Ann, I hope you feel better.

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I just potponed my visit with Mr Tom Jones and his family till next week:  too much to do this afternon before my trip to the Village tonight.  I had a lovely two hours at the NYPL Music Collection looking at the new Kurt Weill Edition and critical notes.  Wednesday, I looked at the new partitur of THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE  and today was the new edition of DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER.  Tomorrow, I need to look over the critical notes to each set.

DR MBarnum, I just caught a bit of PASSIONS, the world's most inane and badly written soap opera, and they had a Bollywood fantasy sequence.  The actors on this show are so grade D that you'll want to interview every one of them some day.

DR ANN, I don't know what to say.  If you have any documentation of false allegations, I'd get an attorney and sue their asses.   I do believe that what goes around comes around, even though I've seen too many examples in the City of false friends never getting what they deserve.  It's too bad you've got to enter the job market now that you need to, as opposed to looking for another job while still in one, but I wish you well and hope it all works out to your satisfaction.  What work would you like to do?

Petruchio, a gentleman from Verona suffered from a form of bi-polar disorder. A local physician prescribed an experimental drug "Equivo" to calm him down. Unfortunately, his shrewish wife was wont to hide the pills. He was oft heard to roar "Where is my Equivo Kate!"

der Brucer

DR ELMORE - once you finish A FINE ROMANCE, please post your thoughts.  And thanks for the comment on HOW SONDHEIM FOUND HIS SOUND.

Didn't the author of BRANDO UNZIPPED also release a book about Katharine Hepburn?  Darwin Porter.

It's a terrible book that includes page after page of QUOTES from personal conversations between persons now long dead.

Example:

Cukor told Kate that Errol Flynn had once again made a casting-couch visit to his office "plea bargaining" to be cast as Rhett Butler.

"Even though it's against your usual practice," Kate said, "did you once again manage to resist his sexual overtures?"

"I'm a man of mere flesh, and he overcame my resistance," Cukor said.  "After we'd done the dirty deed, I had to warn him that there still wasn't any guarantee that he would play Rhett."

"When Flynn comes to New York, give im my number at Fenwick" Kate said. "I want to convince Selznick that Flynn is very attracted to me."

"Okay," Cukor warned her, "but in Flynn's case you'll be getting sloppy seconds following your director's conquest of this handsome Aussie devil."

And so it goes, conversation after conversation that in all probability NEVER took place except in Porter's overheated imagination.

Is BRANDO UNZIPPED like that?

And just as smarmy.  He's got Mildred Natwick, whom I adored, telling him the trashiest things about Brando and Guthrie McClintock.  The problem is, a lot of it it's probably quite true, but the telling is so gross and the dialogue rings so false, that it's like reading "Erotic Fantasies of Hollywood by a Mad Queen."  Since every source is conveniently dead, no one can fight the author.

Petruchio, a gentleman from Verona suffered from a form of bi-polar disorder. A local physician prescribed an experimental drug "Equivo" to calm him down. Unfortunately, his shrewish wife was wont to hide the pills. He was oft heard to roar "Where is my Equivo Kate!"

der Brucer

This...by miles and miles...takes the prize for eliciting the biggest groan I've ever had.

DR MBarnum, I just caught a bit of PASSIONS, the world's most inane and badly written soap opera, and they had a Bollywood fantasy sequence.  The actors on this show are so grade D that you'll want to interview every one of them some day.

elmore you are sooooo funny.

elmore you are sooooo funny.

Isn't it odd how poking fun at someone's interests can elicit a chuckle?

I had a lovely lunch with my fella (which passed by all too quickly), and then stopped off at the grocery store on the way home which will allow me to cancel my Sunday morning jaunt to the store. I was very surprised how UNCROWDED this store was on early Friday afternoon. I wish the one in my neighborhood was similarly empty; I'd always shop on Friday instead of Sunday morning.

I decided to watch SMALLVILLE and last night's CSI tonight while waiting for IN JUSTICE to come on.

Instead, I finished up the second disc in the SUPERMAN series DVD set. "The Face and the Voice" had George Reeves playing a dual role which he did very well.

"Panic in the Sky," which many aficianados consider the best SUPERMAN episode ever made, had a commentary by Jack Larson and Noel Neill. They would forget to talk getting wrapped up in the action of the story, and then when they would speak, it usually wasn't episode-specific. Larson did by far the most of the talking, and he's an engaging fellow, but I wish they could have given more insight/information into the making of the show. Of course, they've been telling stories about the show for decades and probably didn't feel they had anything new left to talk about.

Larson did reveal something I had wondered about - who was going to play Perry White after John  Hamilton died; turns out, it was going to be Pierre Watkin who had played Perry in those two Columbia serials that Noel Neill was also in. Watkin guested as other characters in several SUPERMAN episodes throughout the run.

Just picked up my copy of THE COLOR PURPLE cast recording while I was out on lunch. I'm very excited.

Has anyone here read, "The Life Of Pi?" I'm gonna start it once I finish "A Million Little Pieces," which I should finish tonight on the bus to DC. Just curious what people are saying about "Pi."

Glad to hear your lunch went well.  I also used to grocery shop VERY EARLY on Saturday morning (by Sunday the specials have ended here) - but since I switched from Kroger's to Aldi's I have to go at regular hours.

I became quite bored with "Pi" but it had some interesting points to make about religion! I'd skirt around the circumference  - the diamater was just too wide to maintain my interest.