Haines His Way

We got home late (for us), so I am just catching up, but may I say to the folk who evidently are not in tune with my exceedingly dry (some would say arid) sense of humor that my comment about Brooks suing Norbert for style infringement was said with tongue in cheek (although they do sound a lot alike as they both I believe will readily admit).

And to Ron Pulliam--as another DR has pointed out by listing some (but by no means all) of his credits, Brooks certainly does not need me hoping for him to be more successful.  I, a relatively old fogey compared to the ever youthful and undeniably hilarious Brooks, consider myself lucky to have been able to arrange and MD for him on several occasions.

"to arrange and MD" for someone does sound like an alternative world that some of us visit JMK.  But no! This is a family site.

Hope you thoproughly enjoyed "A Black & White Night" Panni. Good that someone at least had a great tribute before they died. I was lucky enough to see the "Big O" 3 or 4 times in OZ. He had a magic and did not need all the smoke and lights that performers need now.

Panni, naturally, is BUSY.  Where are all the other late-night denizens.  I want to have a pajama party.  Jason, Dirty Blonde is great for the two guys - do it if you can.

Okay, I saw this and just couldn't resist posting it.  A friend of mine got an acceptance packet from Central Washington University, and this was the picture on the very front cover!  DR Jed is famous!

ps I'm sorry if it puts us into widescreen.  I'm not on my home computer, so I'm working a bit blndly

Ah ha, there we go!  Everyone enjoy

That's cool, Ann (and Jed)!

I don't get angry or upset when people tell me I must see this or I must see that - if I think they are passionate about something I will usually take their advice and give it a whirl.  I just don't undertand, TomofOz, why you must take it in this other direction.  It seems weird to me.  I would never have discovered half the things I know and love without gentle prodding from people I care about, trust and respect.

Did someone say we should have a pajama party? I'll try my best to stay up!  I took the following quiz (http://quizilla.com/users/morbidbunni/quizzes/Which%20slightly%20offensive%20random%20Barbie%20stereotype%20are%20you%3F/),
and I am the excessively pink Barbie who loves sleepovers, so I should be good at this!

Actually, no the Epsteins did not write the unproduced play, Everybody Comes to Rick's, upon which Casablanca was based. It is no longer unproduced either...some years back some waiver house actually produced it here in LA.  I did not see it!

Tomovoz...No loss you haven't seen ET...I've seen it only once when it first came out.  It's perfectly okay, but hardly the second coming of Christ. I, for one, do not understand the drooling adoration it has.  CITIZEN KANE you really should see.  Not in my top ten, but damned fine movie.

Well, BK & Panni, the wife is now pouting.  I went out  whenever I did my last post and confessed I was on the internet and you guys wanted to go get pancakes.  She was definitely game; I was tempted, but finally decided that if I went, we all would just laugh and laugh I would not get home until the cows did and needed to work.  She was still game.  I told her to call you, that she could go without me.  But she decided not to.  So I just went out into the TV room after a productive period of work (I've only one small scene to alter slightly and then some repaging and I'm done!), And she was pouting because she didn't get to see you.

I have watched one of the most remarkable figure skating performances I've ever seen.  

The men's finals this afternoon were wonderful.  And even the ladies' skating tonight was pretty good, if a tad shaky.  Sasha Cohen, heavily favored -- heck, even Dick Button and Peggy Fleming predicted she'd win the competition -- fell on one jump and stumbled on another move and still got extremely high scores...5.7s to 5.9s on technicals and one perfect 6.0 and a bunch of 5.8s and 5.9s on presentation.  But she skated first, and there was the ever-ubiquitous "room" for anyone who could best her.  Only Michelle Kwan was in a postion to better those marks and pass her.

When Michelle Kwan took the ice, she had the audacity to be skating a relatively new program and to the music used by Russian rival Irina Slutskaya at the 2002 Olympics -- "Tosca" by Puccini.  It's my feeling that she would have gotten around to "Tosca" at some point in her career, but it seems like she's skating to it now to show the world how it "should" be skated to...with artistry and technique and without the melodramatic hand-flailing and hair-pulling that marks Russian "artistry" in female figure skating these days.

I've seen this program twice already this year.  She finished second the first time she used it, and she won with it the second time although she fell on a jump.

Not so tonight.  No.

Tonight was magic time.

Tonight was one of those extraordinary moments in time when an artist takes the stage with an audience hungry for brilliance and the artist hands it to them with style, grace, power and tons of heart!  

It was, for me, as perfect a moment as a moment can be.

Of course, it helps if you love figure skating.  It also helps if you believe Michelle Kwan embodies everything ladies figure skating should be.

I love opera, too.

Both -- opera and Michelle Kwan -- move me to tears.

Oh, yeah....she won, too!  Left everyone else in her dust!  I daresay Sasha Cohen wouldn't have won if she hadn't fallen.

Her reward:  Five 5.9s and four 5.8s on technical merit; and seven perfect 6.0s and two 5.9s on presentation.

How can we still be on page thirteen?

JMK, Yes, twas I quoted in Variety a few days ago.  I wanted to get a strong statement out there to shut up all the whingers who are going to be saying what an embarrassment this is for the guild and how it weakens it.  Personally, it's only an embarrassment for Ms. Riskin who shouldn't have tried to dodge around the eligibility question.  The Guild has proven its strength once again, by listening to a member, investigating what it needed to investigate, resolving the problem properly, serving its by-laws and constitution, serving its membership. It's shown that the guild is its membership and that no one person is more important than the whole and that the rules apply to everybody.  And, frankly, Charles Holland is the best possible president we could have at this time.

For those of us who don't get Variety (or unless I missed it), what the ferschlugeneh did you talk about

Late update:  Charles, I just came across your post from 8:15 that explained it.  Sorry that I didn't read through the posts far enough before questioning something that was already answered.

CALM DOWN!  Smell the roses.  Everyone's opinion is everyone's opinion, period.  End of story.  You don't have to like it, you don't have to agree with it, and that's all perfectly fine.  Some love ET (I do), some don't (Pogue don't, and plenty of others don't, too).  It doesn't make them pitiable any more than it makes anyone pitiable for liking it.  It's only a movie, Beulah.

Now, anyone for a PAJAMA PARTY?  New notes up in fifteen minutes or so, so post here now, take a thirty second break, then let's get in our pjs and start all over again.

So it is written, so it shall be done.