Topic: PITH AND VINEGAR (Read 37082 times)

Ginny · « **Reply #210 on:** December 04, 2007, 05:46:10 PM »

Can y'all smell the caramel corn I'm making? Tomorrow night, after it's cooled, I'll package it in individual Santa-face serving bags for my AAUW friends to sell at a bake sale Thursday evening. It smells so good, something tells me that I'm going to have to make another batch for our family very soon.

George · « **Reply #211 on:** December 04, 2007, 05:48:22 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on December 04, 2007, 05:46:10 PM

Can y'all smell the caramel corn I'm making? Tomorrow night, after it's cooled, I'll package it in individual Santa-face serving bags for my AAUW friends to sell at a bake sale Thursday evening. It smells so good, something tells me that I'm going to have to make another batch for our family very soon.

Your HHW Family??

George · « **Reply #212 on:** December 04, 2007, 05:50:42 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on December 04, 2007, 04:19:28 PM

Well, I'm waiting to judge how it all works in the film. I've ordered the soundtrack, but I've already seen the definitive SWEENEY TODD on stage several times. When I want to listen to the score I'll return to the original Broadway cast recording, both for the amaziing cast and the full score. The film's a whole different megilah and I hope that I will want to see it many times.

I totally agree...the movie musical is a different animal than the stage musical. I want to love this movie...even with Johnny Depp...and I don't doubt that I will love the movie as a whole. It's just that I love musical theater recordings (and voices) and that one part of the whole (the soundtrack), which is the part that I would most easily be able to return to, is the one part that I know is lacking for me.

Jane · « **Reply #213 on:** December 04, 2007, 05:58:42 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on December 04, 2007, 05:46:10 PM

Can y'all smell the caramel corn I'm making? Tomorrow night, after it's cooled, I'll package it in individual Santa-face serving bags for my AAUW friends to sell at a bake sale Thursday evening. It smells so good, something tells me that I'm going to have to make another batch for our family very soon.

I can. It smells delish-I want some

TCB · « **Reply #214 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:01:55 PM »

Jane, let me add my sympathies to Bryan on the loss of Monkey.

Jane · « **Reply #215 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:09:35 PM »

Thank you TCB.

TCB · « **Reply #216 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:10:14 PM »

Quote from: DakotaCelt on December 04, 2007, 10:06:48 AM

Just a brief visit.

My father passed away this morning in his sleep. He is in a better place adn no longer in pain.

Dakota, my prayers are with you and your family. Be relieved that he is now at peace.

Jane · « **Reply #217 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:11:28 PM »

We lit the candles, the globe with the Chanukah bear inside played the Dreidel Song, and Sherlock received his gift.

That's it for our celebration, not even latkes cuz we are both on diets. Keith is doing better than I am. I stopped for Baskin Robbins chocolate ice cream on the way home from Costco today.

bk · « **Reply #218 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:24:49 PM »

If they think having Sondheim in those promos is somehow going to get them an audience, boy are they stupid. No one of the core group of kids who go to movies knows who he is and could give a rat's ass what he has to say about the movie and his score.

The Hollywood Reporter also gave it a very positive review with the same sort of box-office caveats as Variety.

Looking forward to it.

TCB · « **Reply #219 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:24:53 PM »

Quote from: William F. Orr on December 04, 2007, 01:39:17 PM

Tomovoz:

Please convey the sympathies of the rest of us hainsey/kimlets to Allan. I am one of the few (?) who do remember Allan, but once in the family, always in the family.

Which family did you mean, Bill?

bk · « **Reply #220 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:28:23 PM »

I had a good time at Hollywood High, judging the oral presentations of senior projects on the performing arts. The pompous gasbag judge next to me felt it necessary to pontificate after everyone's presentation, often filling the room with the noxious fumes of his inanity. For example, he told one student who was doing his project on film history that The Sound Of Music was not a Golden Age film, having been made in the 70s. Say what? But it wasn't just that, it was everything. He said a professional director would never hire an actor for a stage show who couldn't project without being miked. I guess this guy hasn't been to a Broadway or touring show in the last five years, because as specious as it is, all actors in straight plays are miked these days - Bill Irwin, Kathleen Turner in Virginia Woolf, the entire company of Twelve Angry Men here at the Ahmanson, and every other professionally mounted straight play I've seen recently.

bk · « **Reply #221 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:28:55 PM »

The Noxious Fumes Of His Inanity - that's the title of my next novel.

bk · « **Reply #222 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:29:25 PM »

Page eight? This will NOT do. Let's get us a frenzy or three goin' on.

bk · « **Reply #223 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:29:37 PM »

Will we never get to page nine?

bk · « **Reply #224 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:30:57 PM »

After the presentations, I went to the Sizzler down the street. I've had a hankerin' for their salad bar, which I haven't visited in over fourteen years. Well, it was awful. I hate salad bars because one ends up eating five times what one would eat if he just ordered a regular meal. The food was mediocre, although the onion rings were okay.

bk · « **Reply #225 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:31:21 PM »

I wonder what motion picture I shall watch this very evening. I've got several to choose from.

bk · « **Reply #226 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:31:54 PM »

I am my own frenzy. Off to sit on the couch like so much fish.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #227 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:41:04 PM »

BK, I saw a benefit concert over the weekend. It was terribly sloppy. If you had directed it, it would have been great.

George · « **Reply #228 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:52:42 PM »

And now for something completely different...I'm at work, ordering new, adult non-fiction books for the library and one that I just ordered is this: Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery, by James Lileks, author of The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Don't they sound appetizing??

TCB · « **Reply #229 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:54:31 PM »

Happy first night of Chanukah to all those who celebrate!

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Jane · « **Reply #230 on:** December 04, 2007, 06:57:58 PM »

Thanks George & that book looks "interesting"

Jane · « **Reply #231 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:01:54 PM »

I was good today. I finally booked doctor’s appointments & numerous routine tests, all to be done in the next 2½ weeks.

bk · « **Reply #232 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:06:57 PM »

Laura, thank you for the vote of confidence.

bk · « **Reply #233 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:07:42 PM »

I will say that directing benefits may "seem" easy, but it's really not, not if you care about what you're doing and its impact on an audience.

TCB · « **Reply #234 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:11:13 PM »

When I was growing up, I was very jealous when I found out that Chanukah was seven days and Christmas only one. I told my minister, who was also my mentor when I was in high school, about that; which gave him a great opportunity to discuss Twelfth Night with me and explain that the 12 Days of Christmas didn't actually start until Christmas. I was greatly relieved.

Kerry · « **Reply #235 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:11:57 PM »

The topic from a few days ago was songs that make you cry. "Baby Mine" does it to me every time. The Betty Noyes' version from the movie and Rosemary Clooney's later version are perfection. In about 1974, Disney re-released "Dumbo," and everyone thinks of it as a light movie, but I knew and brought a box of Kleenex because I knew I'd weep. And I did. Still do.
"Where Are You Now That I Need You?" (Betty Hutton and k.d. lang's versions.) "Where Do I Go From Here?" by Liz Callaway does it to me from the first note. Peggy Lee's version of "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" does it. There's a harp concerto that also does it. DR MusicGuy's arrangement of "We Three Kings" never fails to reduce me to a puddle. (it's brilliant) An early Liza Minnelli rendition of "My Shining Hour" is a wonderful cry. Garland's version of a number of songs can wipe me out. "At Times Like These (a Girl Could Use a Dog)" and we know whose version is best.

Songs that make me smile:
Jeri Southern's "An Occasional Man": perfection!!!
Elaine Stritch doing "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?"
"Turkey Lurkey Time" makes me smile too.
Music Guy's version of "Hey Feller" from "Show Boat" is a stunner.
Music gets me very emotional!

Jason Graae, Peggy Lee, Jeri Southern, Guy Haines, and Liz Callaway can make me cry or laugh, and I envy their talents.

Jane · « **Reply #236 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:12:50 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 04, 2007, 07:07:42 PM

I will say that directing benefits may "seem" easy, but it's really not, not if you care about what you're doing and its impact on an audience.

That is something I've learned from following your experiences! Not that I ever really thought they were easy, but I didn't expect them to be so complicated and frustrating.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #237 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:13:49 PM »

Quote from: Jane on December 04, 2007, 04:57:17 PM

I doubt it is intentional. When work is a success everyone comments on how good the person looks.

When they're not muttering behind her back that she's had "work" done. And even good "work" changes a person's features.

Jane · « **Reply #238 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:16:37 PM »

TCB we received a cute email Chanukah card tonight. It was a charming old fashioned drawing of a young girl with her mother. The caption said "I want a Christmas tree for Chanukah".

Kerry · « **Reply #239 on:** December 04, 2007, 07:17:03 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on December 04, 2007, 06:41:04 PM

BK, I saw a benefit concert over the weekend. It was terribly sloppy. If you had directed it, it would have been great.

If BK had had anything to do with it, it would have been brilliant. Bruce, you need to perform your magic (arranging, directing, performing) all over the world.

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