Topic: LUXURIATING (Read 31287 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #30 on:** May 26, 2006, 05:45:36 AM »

bk - neat to hear that Peter Musante read for you last night. Peter was one of my students while he was in high school and middle school and I'm very good friends with his family. He played the title role in "Sweeney Todd" when he was a Senior and he was fantastic. His mom teaches drama and I've musical directed for her before - it's a small world. (after all) I'm very proud of Peter's accomplishments - Oh -- he was Matt in the "Fantasticks" for me a few years ago, also. I'm so glad he had the opportunity to work with you.

Ginny · « **Reply #31 on:** May 26, 2006, 06:21:10 AM »

Friday morning greetings! Just putting one foot in front of the other, heading toward 5:30pm and the beginning of my 4-day weekend.

Media report:

DVD - The Smartest Guys in the Room, which was recommended by DR Elmore and which we will watch to celebrate yesterday's convictions. Also, season 1 of Boston Legal, which we started watching just this past January.

CD - The Harry Connick dual disc set that has Pajama Game; in my car, still listening to Emma - oh, I also have the Gwyneth Paltrow movie version on DVD at home, so that should be added to my list above.

Ginny · « **Reply #32 on:** May 26, 2006, 06:22:57 AM »

DR Ben - have a great trip to Washington!

Ben · « **Reply #33 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:13:40 AM »

Speaking of The Smartest Guys in the Room, while I don't often express political sentiments here I will now.

Hoo and Ray, those slime buckets were convicted. Every so often a ray of sunshine appears through the clouds.

Ben · « **Reply #34 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:14:59 AM »

Thanks, Ginny. I'm looking forward to the trip. Haven't been to DC for a couple of years and we always have a good time with our old college friend. It's a pretty open calendar. We are seeing Mame on Sunday evening but the rest of the time is open to whatever happens.

Matt H. · « **Reply #35 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:21:05 AM »

Good morning!

It's muggy here and very summery-feeling. Going to be in the 90s this weekend. I'm sure those off for Memorial Day will be enjoying the sun and heat and humidity. I long for spring (or fall).

Matt H. · « **Reply #36 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:23:38 AM »

After reading Peter Filichia's review of the Eileen Heckhart biography, I've been tempted to pick it up also. I'm currently reading S IS FOR SILENCE, but this is one of the few Sue Grafton's that I've had a hard time getting into. And the book got the best reviews she's gotten in years, so I guess the problem is just my being restless and the heaps of reading and viewing materials that are here ready to be consumed.

All I need is 50 hour days, and I'd be set!

Matt H. · « **Reply #37 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:26:44 AM »

Friday Media Check:

CD - THE COLOR PURPLE (OCR)

DVR - last night's CSI rerun (with Faye Dunaway)

DVD - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
MOMMIE DEAREST

laserdisc - DEEP IN MY HEART
EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS

VHS - SMALL TOWN GIRL

Matt H. · « **Reply #38 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:29:06 AM »

I finshed listening to JERSEY BOYS yesterday, and I enjoyed hearing the Frankie Valli songs my brother used to listen to all the time. I'm sure the show is fun, and I'm not surprised it's doing well nor will I be surprised when it does well on the road tours with my Baby Boomer generation of ticket buyers hungry for nostalgia.

But I was really surprised in some early dialog lines on the CD that the "F-word" is said twice. Was that really necessary to include that on the CD?

Matt H. · « **Reply #39 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:37:28 AM »

I meant to mention this yesterday but kept forgetting. NBC has shaken up the schedule it announced a week ago once it got a gander at the schedules of the other networks.

The Aaron Sorkin dramedy about the making of a Saturday Night Live type show (with Matthew Perry) which was slated for Thursdays at 9 has now been moved to Mondays at 10.

So what happens to MEDIUM? Gone from the schedule until midseason when it will return on Sunday night after football season!

NBC is putting DEAL OR NO DEAL on Thursdays at 9.

CROSSING JORDAN will now rejoin the schedule in the fall on Fridays at 8.

LAW & ORDER:CRIMINAL INTENT and LAW & ORDER are now moving from their announced places on the schedule. CI will go to Tuesdays at 9 making a two hour LAW & ORDER block with CI and SVU.

The original LAW & ORDER will be moving from WEdnesday at 10 to Friday at 10.

THE BIGGEST LOSER, which had been scheduled for Tuesdays at 8 has been shifted to Wednesdays at 9, and the two comedies that were going to be there have been moved to WEdnesday at 8.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #40 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:37:45 AM »

Dorothy Gale visits Portland last night:

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #41 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:45:05 AM »

Quote from: Ben on May 26, 2006, 07:13:40 AM

Speaking of The Smartest Guys in the Room, while I don't often express political sentiments here I will now.

Hoo and Ray, those slime buckets were convicted. Every so often a ray of sunshine appears through the clouds.

I didn't know Hoo and Ray were on trial!

To suggest Skilling and Lay got what they deserved is not a political sentiment; it is an ethical observation that I suspect most of us of all political persuasion share. This was capitalism at it's finest - they earned jail, they got jail.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #42 on:** May 26, 2006, 07:46:35 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on May 26, 2006, 07:26:44 AM

Friday Media Check:

DVD - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
MOMMIE DEAREST

Wouldn't THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST make a better pairing with MOMMIE DEAREST?

der Brucer

Matt H. · « **Reply #43 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:09:14 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on May 26, 2006, 07:46:35 AM

Wouldn't THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST make a better pairing with MOMMIE DEAREST?

der Brucer

Thematically, yes.

But I have absolutely no interest in seeing THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

Matt H. · « **Reply #44 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:09:42 AM »

Off to get cleaned up now so I can run my usual Friday errands.

WBBL.

vixmom · « **Reply #45 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:14:01 AM »

Good morning all! I don't know if it the low cloud cover keeping in the pollen or the wallpapering they're doing in the hallway here at work but my eyes are burning and I have a headache that won't quit.

Since we're working on half staff today and I'm the half that's in for my department I'm stuck here for the duration.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #46 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:18:38 AM »

I want to pick up the latest MOMMIE DEAREST because it sounds like good campy fun--John Waters in on the commentry track.

vixmom · « **Reply #47 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:19:21 AM »

I just finished listening to the book on tape "Agatha Raisen and the Perfect Paragon" (Agatha Raisen books are a guilty pleasure my mom & I share, a formulatic ,"chocolate for the mind" series that follows the adventures of a retired female PR rep turned amateur sleuth living in the British Cottswells .

I have just started listening to my new Books on Tape "A Widow of the South" this morning.

In my DVD player at home the Boston Legal Finale which Danise so kindly burned and mailed to me. I was too tired to watch it last night and plan to see it tonight if my eyes get better.

In my CDplayer at work New Guy In Town

bk · « **Reply #48 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:25:03 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.

It's nice to know that Aaron Sorkin's "new" idea about the backstage at a Saturday Night Live type show is coming. I pitched that very idea to ABC back in 1985 - it got close, but no ceegar.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #49 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:29:42 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on May 26, 2006, 07:29:06 AM

But I was really surprised in some early dialog lines on the CD that the "F-word" is said twice. Was that really necessary to include that on the CD?

Yes, if you want to keep your CD out of Wal-Mart and appeal to the "No Taste is Good Taste" crowd.

der Brucer (old-fashioned Grandpa!)

Speaking of which:

Last night my third-grader Grandson informed us all that Classmate A "showed her hole" to Classmate B (another girl). Classmate A also convinced Classmate B to join her in lifting her top to show off her chest to those assembled. [And the boys din't even have beads to throw!]

Earlier, when I check with the School faculty about sex education, I was informed that it had been removed as "too controversial" Even "Good Touch/Bad Touch" had been abandoned.

Grandson's Day Care provider lets her 8 year-old wear a bra to school because "that's what she wants".

This is the same provider who introduced the Grandlads to the use of both the "S" and "F" words in film by showing them Adam Sandler's "Billy Madison".

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #50 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:42:27 AM »

BK, I too like both Sergeant Rutledge and Cheyenne Autumn. Autumn has a melancholy majesty to it and Strode probably does his best work ever in Rutledge. Yeah, the end of Rutledge is a little Perry Mason, but the film is still solid.

DVD: Watching George Bernard Shaw plays, from a boxed set from the BBC...first off, ARMS & THE MAN, starring Helena Bonham Carter and MAN OF DESTINY with Simon Callow.

CDs: Lots of compiliations of cowboy songs my friend has downloaded for me.

BOOK: Men-At-Arms, by the hilarious Terry Pratchett.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #51 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:53:51 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on May 26, 2006, 05:29:44 AM

It would be nice if they released Shelley Duvall's Fairy Tale Theatre on disc.

They have

We have it - a six disc set.

It is now on super-sale (56% off) at AMAZON.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #52 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:56:19 AM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on May 26, 2006, 08:42:27 AM

MAN OF DESTINY with Simon Callow.

In his pre-American Idol days

der Brucer

Matt H. · « **Reply #53 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:03:58 AM »

Tina Fey is also doing a sitcom about a Saturday Night Live program, too, and it's also on NBC this season (one of their Wednesday comedies). Overkill if you asked me, though, of course, I haven't seen either show, and they both may be marvelous. I will certainly be watching to find out.

Matt H. · « **Reply #54 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:06:46 AM »

RE: the JERSEY BOYS cast album

Understand please that I'm not a prude about profanity. I certainly use my fair share of it, but I just found its use unnecessary on a cast album with songs that could appeal to all ages (not just us Baby Boomers), but that was a REAL turn-off for me when I heard it, and I suspect it might be for parents of potential musical theater kids to come.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #55 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:08:33 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on May 26, 2006, 08:53:51 AM

They have We have it - a six disc set.

It is now on super-sale (56% off) at AMAZON.

der Brucer

Whoa! Thanks DR DB! I am ordering this right away!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #56 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:08:52 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on May 26, 2006, 09:06:46 AM

...but that was a REAL turn-off for me when I heard it, and I suspect it might be for parents of potential musical theater kids to come.

and Grandparents!

der Brucer

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:10:15 AM »

I think we finally have a cover design for Deceit - we're trying to play up Matt's involvement, and Doug finally found a way to do that and still have it look like a movie poster design.

MBarnum · « **Reply #58 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:15:57 AM »

TOD: Media Check

With what looks like a rainly 4 day weekend I hope to get lots of DVDs watched!!

DVD: WORLD WITHOUT END (1956)
WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET (1966)
LATTER DAYS

DVR: BRIGHT ROAD

CD: Some lovely compilation CDs titled TAKE FIVE parts 1 and 2 courtesy that dear reader Tomovoz!!!

FJL · « **Reply #59 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:22:30 AM »

Matt - I absolutely admired and greatly enjoyed JERSEY BOYS, but I don't think a cast album of that pop song material will be useful towards developing musical theater kids to come. They are not musical theater songs, either in fact or in the way 90% of them are used in the show, and I think they won't encourage kids to be more interested in musical theater, unless it's to make them more interested in seeing more catalog musicals (a terms I prefer to the derogatory-sounding "jukebox musical" term).

And I think including the rough language sends a clear signal to parents before they pay $110 a ticket to be confronted with an extremely gritty, parental guidance suggested IMHO, show. The grit is part of what makes the theatrical experiecne of the show so special, and I'm glad the cast recording reflects that grit.

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