Topic: NAKED CITY (Read 46904 times)

Ginny · « **Reply #180 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:02:12 PM »

For DRs who've been wanting to see snow: Check to see if your local CBS affiliate is broadcasting the Cleveland/Buffalo football game. It's being played in Cleveland and the conditions make me very glad to live in southern Ohio

Tomovoz · « **Reply #181 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:03:35 PM »

Quote from: ArnoldMBrockman on December 16, 2007, 06:19:11 AM

And The Song Of The Day Is : OL' MAN RIVER

That's Elderly Man River.

(for those old enought to remember!)

George · « **Reply #182 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:04:52 PM »

DearReaderLaura wrote:

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And if you all are inclined to send thoughts, prayers, vibes, etc., the woman who sat beside me on the plane to California was going over because her 13-year-old grandson accidentally shot a BB into her 6-year-old son's eye. He may lose his eye.

~~~Keeping Eye Vibes!!~~~

George · « **Reply #183 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:06:01 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on December 16, 2007, 09:42:55 AM

I'm saying nothing!

Larry, saying you're saying nothing is saying something.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #184 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:07:02 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on December 16, 2007, 07:36:07 AM

Read it and weep.

Oh a Jim Steinman reference!

George · « **Reply #185 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:07:48 PM »

And now, I must leave to shower and get ready for the last performance of Nite of the Living Dead! The Musical! I hope my voice holds out. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #186 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:08:15 PM »

After that, we'll have to strike the set and clean up the theater. THEN I can come home and crash. I'm sure I'll call in sick tomorrow. I don't think that I'll be completely recovered by then.

George · « **Reply #187 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:08:27 PM »

Have a good day, all!!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #188 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:14:30 PM »

Quote from: FJL on December 16, 2007, 10:20:27 AM

Ah, post #9595:

In the year 9595
If theater's still alive
If movies can survive

(oh, never mind)

Thank you Denny & Rick

elmore3003 · « **Reply #189 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:21:49 PM »

Quote from: George on December 16, 2007, 12:06:01 PM

Larry, saying you're saying nothing is saying something.

Sometimes taking aim at DR MBarnum's comments is like shooting fish in a barrel. At other times his eloquence is too mind-numbing just as it stands and needs no critique..

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #190 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:21:58 PM »

LA TIMES

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Reading between the lines with Kindle

"People who care about literature care about substance and permanence," wrote novelist Jonathan Franzen, author of "The Corrections," in an e-mail. "The essence of electronics is mutability and transience. I can see travel guides and Michael Crichton novels translating into pixels easily enough. But the person who cares about Kafka wants Kafka unerasable.

"Am I fetishizing ink and paper? Sure, and I'm fetishizing truth and integrity too."

But how can truth depend on whether the words that express it are printed on an electronic page or a paper one? Are they not words in both cases? Confronted thus, Franzen remained firm.

"Yes, in theory, words are words," he replied. "But literature isn't data. The difference between Shakespeare on a BlackBerry and Shakespeare in the Arden Edition is like the difference between vows taken in a shoe store and vows taken in a cathedral."
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…using Shakespeare as to argue that good literature must appear in printed editions is bizarre. Shakespeare presented his plays in oral form, with no footnotes and no flipping between pages. He never published his work. The folio editions came only after his death. And now they're online.

der Brucer

TCB · « **Reply #191 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:39:18 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on December 16, 2007, 09:36:54 AM

I am hungry for such a sandwich.

I have had two sordid dreams about my neighbor across the street in the last few days...the moon and the stars must be crossing Uranus, or something.

Mike, I definately think you might be right about Uranus!

TCB · « **Reply #192 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:41:44 PM »

Quote from: Michael S on December 16, 2007, 09:42:07 AM

I happened to attend the same performance as Hairspray as BK. This was my first in person meeting with him. I spotted him as he was taking his seat.

Well, at least you didn't spot him when he was picking his seat.

TCB · « **Reply #193 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:47:35 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on December 16, 2007, 09:50:49 AM

Although, I do have to admit, with this crappy weather, I'm also really tempted to stay in today and watch some DVDs. God knows, I have plenty still in the shrink wrap.

If I had a dollar for every time Jose has said that!

Jeanne · « **Reply #194 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:07:15 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 16, 2007, 11:44:21 AM

Where did I get fifty million stories in the naked city? Now that I think about it, isn't it six million stories in the naked city? Just how many stories are there in the naked city? And what if one person has three stories?

You were right the first time, Bruce. There are fifty million stories in the naked city because the stories have cloned themselves over the years. Blame it on inflation. Blame it on Jose. But the count has risen.

Jeanne · « **Reply #195 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:13:00 PM »

HEALTHY THROAT VIBES TO ALL WHO NEED THEM!

Jeanne · « **Reply #196 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:15:07 PM »

I'm feeling quite lazy today. Several friends phoned and we chatted. I stopped at the video store. I'll phone my cousin because it's her birthday. That's my lazy Sunday.

And NONE of my neighbors interest me.

Matt H. · « **Reply #197 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:19:39 PM »

I think it's "eight million stories in the naked city," but I, too, could be wrong. It's been months since I watched that DVD.

Matt H. · « **Reply #198 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:20:49 PM »

I began my afternoon viewing with the other four episodes of RICK & STEVE, all very amusing and enjoyable.

Matt H. · « **Reply #199 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:22:29 PM »

Then, I started watching some of the bonus features on the disc: how the puppets are made, what the sets look like, a typical recording session. They get about 8 seconds of footage a day with this stop motion animation.

Matt H. · « **Reply #200 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:23:27 PM »

I also listened to interviews with Peter Paige, Alan Cumming, and Wilson Cruz about working on the show. They only talked about the main characters they voice, but I believe they each do A LOT of voices for the final recordings.

Matt H. · « **Reply #201 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:27:10 PM »

Then I watched THE HEARTBREAK KID. Amazing how they turned that 1970s comedy adapted by Neil Simon into a typical Ben Stiller movie (i. e. he's embarrassed at every turn by everyone including himself), and since it's directed by the Farrelly Brothers, you know there is every sex and fart joke there that they can plant.

Great transfer and there are some laughs, so it's an OK rental, but the Charles Grodin original is SO much better. I still don't understand why they feel the need to remake movies that worked out well the first time.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #202 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:41:52 PM »

Oh....Dan Fogelberg has shuffled off this mortal coil.

Nice song that always makes me cry.

Never heard it live.....till now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhjYbfK9vrk&feature=related

Matt H. · « **Reply #203 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:50:55 PM »

Guess I'll head back down now to clean the guest bathroom and then settle back in for the bonus features on THE HEARTBREAK KID and then EXTRAS and DEXTER.

WBBL.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #204 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:02:01 PM »

I am thinking about getting the DVD set of Rick and Steve....

S. Woody White · « **Reply #205 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:27:58 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on December 16, 2007, 10:03:21 AM

8 bars, please!

AOL recommends Marie's Crisis, Eagle Open Kitchen, Hangar Bar, Hannah's Lava Lounge, Pegasus, Starlight Bar and Lounge, Ty's, and Barracuda.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #206 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:36:51 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 16, 2007, 11:44:21 AM

Where did I get fifty million stories in the naked city? Now that I think about it, isn't it six million stories in the naked city? Just how many stories are there in the naked city? And what if one person has three stories?

Tales of the Schitzophrenic. That's the title of my next autobiography.

And the one after that.

And the one after that, too!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #207 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:39:28 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on December 16, 2007, 12:03:35 PM

That's Elderly Man River.

(for those old enought to remember!)

For the politically correct out there, "Gentleman of an Undisclosed Age River."

S. Woody White · « **Reply #208 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:47:06 PM »

Today, I wore my Santa hat to work again. Dixie, my boss, took one look at it and said "No. No, no."

A few minutes later, she came up to me with a new Santa hat. She didn't like the one I'd been wearing because Fletcher had eaten most of the puffball at the tip, and all that was left were these pathetic little white whiskers.

So I now have a new Santa hat with a full puffball. When the puffball flops down to one side, it's a bit like wearing half a pair of earmuffs.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #209 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:58:11 PM »

This morning I went to church, and this is what I saw:

News:

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