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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #90 on: February 09, 2007, 08:12:48 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - too early - I awoke at seven-thirty for reasons unknown to me.
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« Reply #91 on: February 09, 2007, 08:13:16 AM »

That started a new page?  I would have done something peppier had I known that.
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« Reply #92 on: February 09, 2007, 08:32:30 AM »

Just finished listening to "Together Again":

two speical numbers "Don't Let It Go" - what has become of Penny Peyser

and "Falling Out of Love" - too bad Brucer Kimmel no longer sings.

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« Reply #93 on: February 09, 2007, 08:36:25 AM »

Der Brucer, no rhyming couplets which both my director and I hate.  It's a very free adaptation.
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #94 on: February 09, 2007, 08:40:22 AM »

I'm devastated.  The great actor Ian Richardson has died.  Ian starred as Sherlock Holmes in the first two movies I ever wrote, THE SIGN OF FOUR & THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.  He was, needless to say, a great Holmes.  I considered him a friend and colleague.  I last saw him in 1997 in THE MAGISTRATE in London at the Savoy Theatre, in which he was wonderful.  Julieanne and I had drinks with him and his wife at the Coal Hole pub next door, where Ian informed me Edmund Kean used to whet his whistle.  The following night, they took us to dinner at Simpson's-On-The-Strand.

A lovely man and a brilliant actor.
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #95 on: February 09, 2007, 08:42:49 AM »

Just finished listening to "Together Again":

two speical numbers "Don't Let It Go" - what has become of Penny Peyser

and "Falling Out of Love" - too bad Brucer Kimmel no longer sings.

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What has become of Penny Peyser?  Well, there's a lovely interview with her in our interview section, she's mentioned in today's notes, and I'm seeing her in a play tomorrow night.
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« Reply #96 on: February 09, 2007, 08:49:59 AM »

I, too, am saddened by the death of Ian Richardson. I so loved him in HOUSE OF CARDS. He was such a fine actor--always a treat to watch.

In the Where Is the Justice? department, I notice that the BBC News had a fairly prominent story and photo of Anna Nicole Smith, yet I had to look very carefully to find the article on Ian Richardson. I'd expect this of American media, but BBC???
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« Reply #97 on: February 09, 2007, 09:02:12 AM »

What has become of Penny Peyser?  Well, there's a lovely interview with her in our interview section, she's mentioned in today's notes, and I'm seeing her in a play tomorrow night.

Sorry, I meant musically - has she done any recent recordings?

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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #98 on: February 09, 2007, 09:04:36 AM »

I very much enjoyed Richardson's Henry Higgins in the MY FAIR LADY '76 revival.  He was also wonderful in the bizarre GORMENGHAST miniseries on PBS last year.
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« Reply #99 on: February 09, 2007, 09:09:24 AM »


Good morning dear Esteemed, up-early, peppy, and svelte BK --

Thanks again for a great fun dinner and evening together while I was in L.A. .  I almost called you on Wednesday morning to see if you wanted pancakes, but it was just a little earlier than you usually like to be called, so I was reticient... oh yes!  

I have to try Pig & Whistle again one of these days.... I keep forgetting about it.  I popped my head in when I was having my Hollywood Blvd. walk this past Tuesday, and it is still a great interior.  Did you know that one of its original entertainment features was a Wurlitzer pipe organ??  

And, no elmore, I didn't play there in 1928 !! :)
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« Reply #100 on: February 09, 2007, 09:10:23 AM »

Good morning and happy friday to the lovely, buxom, and studly H/Ks and DRs here at the Living Room.
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« Reply #101 on: February 09, 2007, 09:13:53 AM »

CD: My beloved INFERNAL VIOLINS, Barbara Cook's CLOSE AS PAGES IN A BOOK, Guy Haines, THE CHORUS
DVD: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
         THE SHOOTING PARTY
          SOPHIE SCHOLL
VHS: HEARTBEAT (British TV series)
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« Reply #102 on: February 09, 2007, 09:32:06 AM »

Friday greetings!

Media report:

CD(car) - audiobook, Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger.  Not as good as The Devil Wears Prada, but I have to find out how it ends.  Sometime this weekend, I'll listen to the cast recording of the 1976 My Fair Lady revival, in memory of Ian Richardson.

iPod(now) - In honor of her 65th birthday today, I'm listening to Carole King's The Living Room Tour

DVD - Cosi Fan Tutte and Idomeneo, continuing my "Mozart immersion," brought about by reading Mozart's Women.
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« Reply #103 on: February 09, 2007, 09:36:53 AM »


VHS: HEARTBEAT (British TV series)

Not to be confused with BK's recording of Amanda McBrooms:  Heartbeats

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« Reply #104 on: February 09, 2007, 09:40:45 AM »

Not to be confused with BK's recording of Amanda McBrooms:  Heartbeats

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No. Though I'd like to become acquainted with BK's version. My version is Yorkshire Television's series about life in Yorkshire in the 1960's.  
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« Reply #105 on: February 09, 2007, 09:43:10 AM »

Are any H/K's familiar with the music of Francois Dompierre? He's a contemporary French Canadian. I'm new to his work, but really like what I've heard. I discovered him on INFERNAL VIOLINS.
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #106 on: February 09, 2007, 09:51:38 AM »

Just had an e-mail from the CD lady - she says it will be earlier rather than later today - I'm hoping she's right.
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #107 on: February 09, 2007, 09:56:05 AM »

Footlight just added another ten CDs to their already nice order, so that's good.  I should be able to get everything but the signed copies out today.
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« Reply #108 on: February 09, 2007, 09:56:24 AM »

Has anyone seen the Academy of Television interviews on Google?

I have been listening to a number of different ones lately and some are downright interesting  interviews about television and movies. I found a number of the interviews about early television rather interesting.

HOwever, there were a few that I felt the interviewer had not business interviewing elderly interviewees.

One of the interviews was interesting and it done with Frances Reid. She was in theatre, film, and television. She even talked about working Alfred Hitchcock.

She also mentioned being on Wagon Train.

Frances Reid, was 90 when they did the interviews and i felt the interviewer was a bully with her in someways. I felt she would have gotten a better interview with prompts and photographs than trying to pressure a 90-year old woman to remember things.
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #109 on: February 09, 2007, 09:56:27 AM »

Will we never get to page five?
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« Reply #110 on: February 09, 2007, 09:57:10 AM »

The day cannot decide what it wants to be.  It's kind of getting sunny, but it's also quite chilly.
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« Reply #111 on: February 09, 2007, 09:57:12 AM »

Good day to one and all!!
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #112 on: February 09, 2007, 09:57:44 AM »

Perhaps I'll buckle down Winsocki and start writing in about a half-hour.
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« Reply #113 on: February 09, 2007, 10:08:27 AM »

No. Though I'd like to become acquainted with BK's version. My version is Yorkshire Television's series about life in Yorkshire in the 1960's.  


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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #114 on: February 09, 2007, 10:24:04 AM »

Still on page four?
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« Reply #115 on: February 09, 2007, 10:24:24 AM »

Had a piece of fudge for breakfast.
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Re:THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
« Reply #116 on: February 09, 2007, 10:48:36 AM »

I'm backing up about a billion files in preparation for installing Tiger. At some point I really need to figure out how to organize everything on my drives.

Or maybe I just need to get one big terrabyte drive...
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« Reply #117 on: February 09, 2007, 10:51:36 AM »

Yes, but how is the Brain?  Inquiring Brains want to know.
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« Reply #118 on: February 09, 2007, 10:51:54 AM »

Edisaurus is about to hit 2000 postings.
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« Reply #119 on: February 09, 2007, 10:52:34 AM »

How can we still be on page four?  We were on page four almost three hours ago.
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