Haines His Way

.....you just do...

. . .what comes "natcherly"?

.....you just do...

LOL...DRTD....call me Carl!

I'll call you Carl the moment that you can explain all the advanced astronomy that the script has to offer ! ! !

btw, i think you and i need to talk in private soon about this.

So many interesting facets came out at last night's table discussion.

I knew that BK would mention Hedren's MARNIE; she's one of my faves, too.  Though I still think that at the top of my list would be "The New Mrs. DeWinter," or as some have called her, "I/Me."  Poor child, not to have a name. . .

Do you all know what happens in just about forty posts from now?  I do.

Do you all know what happens in just about forty posts from now?  I do.

We get a new pantheon?  For all of the gods and goddesses?  You'll be serving nectar and ambrosia?

Do you all know what happens in just about forty posts from now?  I do.

I become queen for the day?

My question for BK and other Los Angeles-area Dear Readers today is prompted by my visit to a museum on Hollywood Boulevard (for an exhibit of Hollywood star "glamour" photographic portraits from the '20s, '30s and '40s), attendance at two events at the Egyptian Theatre and a meal at Musso & Frank's, all over the course of the last five days:  

If they can clean up Times Square, surely they can clean up Hollywood Boulevard.  What would it take?

A role of the opposite sex...hmmm...I would like to play Sally Reynolds in ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE...I always digged that big dress she wears! LOL! However, I would have ditched John Agar for the hunkier Scott Peters!

I also would take on any female role that played opposite Jeff Richards....so you can see what my criteria for excepting a role would be! LOL!

A bit late but I thought of another Cy Coleman song I love, THE BUDDY SYSTEM from CITY OF ANGELS....every screenwriter idenitifies with it.

Blood Pudding had it once...I loved it!  I can do without the tomatoes and mushrooms on the traditional British Breakie.

I love any Mexican food that is pretty much meat, dough, and cheese...with ladles of a nice sauce.  Just had some beef burritos from Taco Bell last night.  My favourite Mexican restuarant out here is Lucy's El Adobe down by Paramount.  I usually have the beef or chicken enchildas with the refried beans and rice.  My favourite Mexican dis probably a good Margarita, although Salma Hayek will do in a pinch.

I'm not much for all the cross-gender casting.  I've never much seen the point. Most of those men who play Lady Bracknell or whatever...look like drag acts. There was an all-female Shakespearean troupe out here in LA for a while.  I had to go to one show because a friend was in it.  It was ho-hum.  I don't get it.  A few years ago I saw Vanessa Redgrave play a phlegmatic Prospero in a rather awful production of The Tempest at the Globe on the Southbank, only the clowns shone in the play.  But the experience of being a groundling was rather fascinating.

All that said, if I had to play a female role, it would probably one of the great classical roles...Lady MacBeth, Hecuba, Electra, The Ducchess of Malfi.

Good afternoon everyone!

Mexican food... to quote Homer Simpson (and the much missed Joy):

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I love Mexican food when I can get it (which isn't often).  Fish tacos rule - although they are IMPOSSIBLE to get here!  I have been to just about every Mexican restaurant in the city (all three or four of them ) but still have yet to find them on any menu.

The only problem I have with Mexican food is that I really don't like sour cream or beansm - which seriously limits the number of dishes I can get.  

I am fairly certain that if asked, DR Andrea will say her favorite Mexican meal is honey mustard chicken.  But, I already mock her eating habits enough...

It was just about impossible to get out of bed this morning.  As Jennifer mentioned, it is UNBELIEVABLY cold (-46C with the windchill) and to make matters worse, we lost electricity last night at around 9:30 and it only started up again around 5am.  Our furnace is electric.  Brrrrrr...  Luckily the house was pretty warm so we didn't feel it all that much.

I got my pictures from NYC developed.  Unfortunately several of them of underexposed - so boo.  There is a nice one of me in front of the Gershwin Theatre (with the Wicked Marquis in full view) taken by DR Andrea which I might post if I can get around to the library scanner at some point.
 
I'm off to socio-linguistics.  Today the prof plans to have us listen to Baltimore accents.  The excitement is killing me

If they can clean up Times Square, surely they can clean up Hollywood Boulevard.  What would it take?

A rich corporation like Disney that saw a financial boon in making it happen.

Another song title for SWW's bearded lady in a musical remake of "Freaks":  "No Pain, Rogaine"

Michael Eisner.

I was going to say Samantha or Endora!  

DR CHARLES POGUE hahahahaha.....you choices made me remember a production of CANDIDE that I saw when the leading character was out trying to make his fortune.  Pangloss said:

"For a time Candide tried acting...."  And a cabinet with a shower curtain was rolled out onstage....  Pangloss continued:  "But his Hecuba was booed by even the most non-discriminating of audiences."  The curtain on the cabinet slid open and there stood Candide looking like Hysterium in his virgin outfit....and all the musicians stood up in the pit and pelted him with fruit and vegetables....LOL.  

DRMBARNUM a guest stint on "77 Sunset Strip" might not be too bad either.  

The trouble with the way that Times Square was cleaned up is that they went too far.  Getting rid of porno shops and hookers is one thing.  However what Times Square did not need was a McDonald's, a Red Lobster, a Toys-R-Us, a 7-11, etc.  It's lost a lot of its NYC flavor and is like a suburban shopping plaza.  Let's hope if they clean up Hollywood Boulevard they just clean it up and not bring in every franchise restaurant and store they can fit in.

If they do it right, it won't be the BIG chains - it will be interesting smaller chains (it will have to be chains - there basically are no more mom and pop stores).  But it would be great to have a Pickwick books back on the boulevard (even if it's a Borders or Barnes and Noble - a huge wonderful bookshop), you could have all sorts of interesting food joints, both regular restaurants and food stands, like days of old.  If the Chinese and the El Capitan can work as stand-alone theaters, then so can the Vogue, the Fox (or whatever it was finally called), the Hollywood Pacific (the old Warners Cinerama) and even the smaller theaters that show bargain movies could be refurbished.  Then, they could get the Doolittle away from whoever has it and start booking shows in there again.  It's a criminal waste of a great legit house.