Topic: MARCHING INTO MARCH (Read 35183 times)

Robin · « **Reply #90 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:33:32 PM »

By the way, my favorite moment at the Oscars, ever, was Stanley Donen bursting into a singing-and-dancing acceptance song, sung to the tune of "Dancing Cheek-to-cheek", as he accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award.

Wouldn't that be terrific extra on a DVD?

Robin · « **Reply #91 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:34:03 PM »

OOOOOOHHHHHHH!

Page Four!

Panni · « **Reply #92 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:34:37 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2004, 12:48:47 PM

EXPOSED BY THE MASK, Form and Language in Drama by Sir Peter Hall, a series of lectures he did at Trinity College, Cambridge.

I have that on my shelf - hasn't made it to the bedside table yet. I bought it at the theater when I saw TANTALUS - the absolutely stunning all day production (we broke for lunch and dinner) that Sir Peter Hall directed. What an experience! Thanks for reminding me to read the book.

As for what's on the bedside table. There is a dangerous pile that will one night fall on me and that will be the end of Panni. On the top at the moment - I blush to admit - is Joe Eszterhas' HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL.

As for being sent crap to read. Oh yes! All the time. And crap ideas and true stories, as well.
I was recently sent a really good book for a change - Hispanic-American setting - got all excited, met with the producers - great meeting. They took notes, said "to be continued" as we parted. And now I find out they're going with a Hispanic writer. (Unless they can't make a deal with that writer - then back to me. Why does that not sit well with me?) ....Oh well, win a few, lose a few. I guess I should stick only to Hungarian or Canadian topics 'cause I couldn't possibly handle anything else. Si, si.

td · « **Reply #93 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:37:55 PM »

Quote from: bk on March 01, 2004, 08:37:39 AM

We are waiting. Mr. Blackwell is going to bitch-slap each and every one of you that doesn't have a fashion report.

I was wearing a flannel bathrobe - maroon, tied-at-the-waist and ankle length. No shoes, no socks.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #94 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:45:05 PM »

Panni, I desperately wanted to catch Sir Peter Hall's production of Tantalus, but the timing was never right. I have the script which I've yet to read. I've seen a lot of his productions and don't think I've ever been disappointed in any of them. My favourites are a production he did of AN IDEAL HUSBAND, that had been weeping at one point it was so moving and in hysterics the next. Martin Shaw who played my Henry Baskervilles in my film of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, played Lord Goring as Oscar Wilde. Very funny performance. I also saw an impeccable production Hall did of a rarely done Granville-Baker piece called WASTE, which by all analysis shouldn't at all work for today's audience, but was absolutely mesmerizing to me. Wonderful director.

td · « **Reply #95 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:51:03 PM »

Oh! Whenever I'm off reading emails or chatting on AOL, I ALWAYS have HHW on the screen, using the handy-dandy who's online feature!

Matt H. · « **Reply #96 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:57:05 PM »

Yes, DR RLP, we will have to disagree about Cher deserving that Oscar. I thought she was adequate, no more. (I liked the film very much).

But the other four actresses did much more accomplished pieces of acting in my opinion: Meryl Streep in IRONWEED, Holly Hunter in BROADCAST NEWS, Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION, and Sally Kirkland in ANNA. I would have given it to Close (even with that silly slasher ending tacked on the movie).

Panni · « **Reply #97 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:00:08 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2004, 01:45:05 PM

Panni, I desperately wanted to catch Sir Peter Hall's production of Tantalus, but the timing was never right. I have the script which I've yet to read.

The script won't do the production justice. There was a program done on PBS about the play(s). If you haven't seen it, you might want to hunt it down before you get around to reading the script.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #98 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:02:40 PM »

Good Afternoon!

Well, I went ahead and put on my running shoes and headed out earlier for a nice run. Another beautiful day outside, but there were some pretty gusty wind gusts while I was running through the park. -And tomorrow I shall be running around gettting ready for my trip to Chattanooga on Wednesday for SETCs. *I just hope I remember to wake up Wednesday morning in time for my flight - I keep thinking I'm flying out on Thursday for some strange reason.

OH - finally saw Uma Thurman's dress... That's couture? Little Bo-Peep meets Leiderhosen meets Hospital Gauze?!?!

As for "Vintage Valentino" - Yes, it's an old dress. Probably from their vaults.

I liked Sandra Bullock's dress.. from the waist up. The "poofs" on the button of the dress were actually kinf of humorous.

Well.. time to get the apartment cleaned up...

DR Emily - That's amazing they had you open your tower case! As for the info on your "old" computer - if a technician comes out, he may be able to hook up your old hard drive into a new unit, so all may not be lost.

Sandra · « **Reply #99 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:05:03 PM »

Don't everyone all gang up on me now, but I didn't watch the Oscars.

Fashion report: My faithful saddle shoes, pants of some kind, and a shirt that says, "My brother gave me a lousy shirt for my birthday." You'd be surprised how many people ask me where I got it.

Matt H. · « **Reply #100 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:07:18 PM »

Today is the birthday of CSI hunk George Eads. Happy Birthday, sweet guy.

Jed · « **Reply #101 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:08:20 PM »

Visually, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Garner made the evening worthwhile for me.

And Diane Lane and Susan Sarandon certainly did their part, too!

As for myself, I was wearing a white t-shirt with my summer stock company's logo emblazoned across the front, jeans, and white socks.

Panni · « **Reply #102 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:21:53 PM »

A sad fact and a question:
Fact: I just read that the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills is being torn down after the present show.
Question: Is anyone watching the 3-hour Natalie Wood biopic (directed by Peter Bogdanovich) on ABC tonight?

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #103 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:25:59 PM »

So ,last week, Denny (to some, Scott) Miller emailed me to tell me he was sending me a rare exotic treasure in the mail. It came today...not exactly the Maltese Falcon, but rather a rubber duck in the likeness of Mr. Miller in his persona of the Gorton's Fisherman. Is there no degradation to which these fish people will subject Mr. Miller? As the Gorton's Fisherman, they have made two bobble-head dolls in his likeness, one hand puppet, and now this. What's next? A Pez dispenser? (By the way, I have all the aforementioned mementos...signed by Mr. Miller) I'm afraid to actually use the duck in the tub for fear the inscription will wear off. And quite frankly, it would be damned weird having something in the likeness of Mr. Miller floating around my naked body.

bk · « **Reply #104 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:26:30 PM »

Fact: They've been saying their tearing down the Canon for three years, always after their current show.

Today I actually got someone on the phone at AOL who was nice, smart and who wanted to keep me as a customer. This was after first talking to an incredibly stupid woman in billing. Hint from this nice lady: Never speak to anyone in billing. She gave me a number to get to the smart people. I told her I got a cable modem, and she offered me the new bring your own provider rate of 9.99, and then gave me two free months. Everything works exactly the same, so that's nice. So, with the twenty bucks I saved from finally shutting off WebTV, the fourteen bucks I save from shutting off my second phone line, and the ten bucks I save from AOL, even when the cable modem service goes up to its full price sometime in summer (it's eighteen bucks until then) I will be paying a net three dollars. That's excellent.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #105 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:30:36 PM »

BK: You know all about Tivo, don't you? That someone is out there monitoring everything you record, everything you watch, how often you watch it, even down to which part of the program you re-watch? They compile this info for someone....and give it to them.

Panni · « **Reply #106 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:32:38 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2004, 02:25:59 PM

And quite frankly, it would be damned weird having something in the likeness of Mr. Miller floating around my naked body.

And now I have that image stuck in my head!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #107 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:35:41 PM »

I retrieved some videos from my storage unit this past weekend that I recorded off AMC years ago when they were a channel for movie lovers and the movies they love.

I watched "The Gang's All Here" and "With A Song in My Heart" on Saturday afternoon. "With A Song in My Heart" just wastes me....reduces me to tears. What a feast of a movie. And that great Froman voice is unbelievably wonderful. For me, it's Hayward's greatest performance. David Wayne is very good, but Thelma Ritter gives her standard "sterling" (and Oscar-nominated, IIRC) performance, this time as "Clancy", a nurse from Flatbush, who takes charge of Froman's care after her wartime accident damages her right leg. This won the Oscar for scoring, robbing Lennie Hayton of the honor for "Singin' in the Rain". Despite the near-universal love folks have for the latter film, "With A Song in My Heart" is a musical tour-de-force on its own and a deserving winner.

"The Gang's All Here" is so much fun....with Eugene Pallette and Edward Everett Horton and Charlotte Greenwood lending more than just support to Carmen Miranda and Alice Faye and Benny Goodman. Even Jeanne Crain and June Haver have bit parts in this 1943 Technicolor extravaganza.

"A journey to a star would not be very far as long as I'm alone with you...."

Ahhhh...............

TCB · « **Reply #108 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:38:58 PM »

Charles -- Don't ask me how I stumbled upon this, because it was a very long and convoluted journey, but did I read it correctly at this one website, that, according to The Columbia World of Quotations, you Charles Edward Pogue are credited with the phrase, 'Be afraid. Be very afraid"?

Also, Charles, did you see me mention last week that I got several autographed pictures and a very nice note last week from Denny Miller?

TCB · « **Reply #109 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:42:14 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2004, 02:25:59 PM

So ,last week, Denny (to some, Scott) Miller emailed me to tell me he was sending me a rare exotic treasure in the mail. It came today...not exactly the Maltese Falcon, but rather a rubber duck in the likeness of Mr. Miller in his persona of the Gorton's Fisherman. Is there no degradation to which these fish people will subject Mr. Miller? As the Gorton's Fisherman, they have made two bobble-head dolls in his likeness, one hand puppet, and now this. What's next? A Pez dispenser? (By the way, I have all the aforementioned mementos...signed by Mr. Miller) I'm afraid to actually use the duck in the tub for fear the inscription will wear off. And quite frankly, it would be damned weird having something in the likeness of Mr. Miller floating around my naked body.

There are those of us, who would kill for the opportunity to have Mr. Miller floating around their nude body!

bk · « **Reply #110 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:43:01 PM »

Well, if them knowing I record interesting classic movies, fine. If it helps them knowing that I sometimes replay the main titles fine. If it helps them knowing that I watched the Oscars and didn't record them, fine. In other words, there is nothing I watch on cable or that I TIVO that would tell them anything at all. However, knowing that that is so, I might just have to subscribe to some PORNOGRAPHIC channels (I don't even think they have such things) and some RADICAL channels.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #111 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:46:19 PM »

Hello, all! The Oscars had me up too late last night, so I overslept this morning and missed reading all of last night's discussion. I had three friends over for the Oscars and I wore a Los angeles sweatshirt I puchased at LAX on one of my Kimmel assignments, brown corduroys, and my favorite Rockports, which I think are the greatest shoes ever.

Howard Shore's talented nephew Ryan is a good friend and I was thrilled that Howard won, but I was happy that LOTR carried the evening. I wanted the song from A MIGHTY WIND to win, since I found the two (!!!) songs from COLD MOUNTAIN stark but Sting's hurdy-gurdy fascinating, Annie Lenox rather frightening, although I love her voice, and the song just a bit formless. I haven't seen TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE but the song made me want to see it.

I got an intersting email from a friend in Austin today, happy that Renee won since he claimed to know her when she worked as a stripper in Austin. I have a problem with Ms Kidman: she always looks to me like she's just smelled a bad fart. I also thought she looked like she had some surgical work done. I thought DR MBarnum was right about Catherine Zeta-Jones; maybe the best dressed in my opinion, and I loved the Jack Black-Will Ferrell number.

Reading:

CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER: well, I thought WICKED was an amazing book.

JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY: well, we have to support our colleagues and it's quite funny.

THE IMPOSSIBLE MUSICAL: I want to like it more.

I need to find a new bio: last read the new bio of The Lunts, but my favorites last year were Alison Weir's bios of Eizabeth 1 and Henry VIII.

bk · « **Reply #112 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:56:10 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on March 01, 2004, 02:46:19 PM

I have a problem with Ms Kidman: she always looks to me like she's just smelled a bad fart.

Is there a good fart? Just asking. And has elmoore read both Kritzer books, and if so, where is his lovely amazon.com review?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #113 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:02:32 PM »

Dearest BK, I'm embarassed to admit that I have both BENJAMIN KRITZER and KRITZERLAND sitting right here calling to me, and I picked up JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY instead. Only a cad, or one of my dates, would drop Miss Orloff as she claws her way to stardom for a Kritzer epic. I promise I'll have read both novels and ordered your newest by April 1! Then, baby, get out your asbestos because I'm going to give you a hot review!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #114 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:11:20 PM »

Of course, there a good farts. Farts are fun! They're shit without the mess! And we all know down deep it's really only OTHER people's farts that we don't like!

BUt I literally fell laughing out of my seat in the theatre the first time I saw the now infamous "bean/campfire scene" in BLAZING SADDLES. Mel Brooks struck down the taboo and admitted what none of us publicly cop to...that we all giggle, if not guffaw, at farts.

Of course, what was novel and new then has subsequently been laid on with trowel in every slob comedy since with little originality, daring, or wit.

Well, I think I've just brought HHW to a new low...right into the scatological gutter.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #115 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:14:42 PM »

Quote from: JRand53 on March 01, 2004, 11:13:58 AM

I think I will be Odgen Nash today:

Why is it the people who want to be naked
Are not the people I want to see naked?

Or, as I used to say, "Some people should not have to wear clothes if I don't want them to."

elmore3003 · « **Reply #116 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:15:58 PM »

DR Charles Pogue, thank you! I feared I'd be the first!

Matt H. · « **Reply #117 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:21:48 PM »

I'd like to see some of those Fox musicals show up as Studio Classics some time soon.

I just read an announcement of the latest Fox designated Studio Classic - DESK SET.

Now, I like DESK SET as much as the next person (can't hold a candle to ADAM'S RIB or PAT AND MIKE, of course, but those were written expressly for them whereas DESK SET was adapted from a play that starred Shirley Booth). Still, I consider WITH A SONG IN MY HEART or THE GANG'S ALL HERE every bit a Studio Classic as DESK SET.

I shouldn't complain about the studio that is giving us STAR! and CALL ME MADAM on DVD shortly, but I'd still like to see some of their earlier musicals released on DVD.

bk · « **Reply #118 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:27:22 PM »

A pretty Jewish girl comes along and BK gets put on the pile. Isn't that always the way.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #119 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:34:19 PM »

TCB, I did not see your post re: your Miller memorabilia. Did you track him down through his website? His bio (actually more a memoir than a bio) will be out in April.

Gee, between his book and BK's book, I'll have two books I've blurbed coming out...in fact, the only two books I've EVER blurbed (My blurb, I trust, looks good, BK! You've stay on your editors about that as well as everything else I hope.)

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