Haines His Way

It's nearly lunch time.  I truly want to go out and have some soup.  

My tooth, and the associated gum area, is beginning to "ache".  Trauma, as it were.

I don't have any of my ibuprofen handy.  I may have to call it a day at some point and go home.

RE: ned on GHOST WHISPERER


A couple of days ago i mentioned how jarring i found it when watching last week's GHOST WHISPERER that ned had aged so much without mention.

DR Der Brucer said it was the same kid grown up.

Now i would be completely shocked if this was true.

But does anyone know?

The other kid was little, brown hair (like 12). And this new kid was blonde and like 16!

RE: ned on GHOST WHISPERER


A couple of days ago i mentioned how jarring i found it when watching last week's GHOST WHISPERER that ned had aged so much without mention.

DR Der Brucer said it was the same kid grown up.

Now i would be completely shocked if this was true.

But does anyone know?

The other kid was little, brown hair (like 12). And this new kid was blonde and like 16!

The original Ned was played by Tyler Patrick Jones who is now 14 going on 15.

The new Ned is actor Christoph Sanders.


I much prefer the "new Ned" as a character and as an actor.  He adds a new dimension that Camryn Manheim's "Delia" and the other Ned simply could not provide.  Blame the writers, I suppose.  But what on earth is the "point" of Delia?

Might you mean The Copper Beach?
http://www.maevebinchy.com/

Sorry, Apparently i cooking at the same time as I was trying to come up with the title, Yes it is Copper Beech.

The Grass Lake was the other one I was trying to think of.

Circle of Friends is good also

Thanks for the info DR RLP.

I"m not sure which ned i will prefer. Although i definitely liked the old one a lot.

I just found it very odd that they would change direction mid-season without even a mention (although they did take a few digs at it by referring to him being older).

I think this ned will have more to do. I don't really like that they so drasticly changed things. They could have just found another kid and not made him ned.

Okay i just looked on the imdb for the name you gave (tyler patrick jones) and it says the kid is 13 (march 12, 1994).  I wonder what age he was supposed to be. I always thought he was like 11ish.

RE: the final 3 teams on TAR

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I was actually quite disappointed with who left this week.  I know they fought. But i sort of liked them (mostly for their competitive nature).

Plus i really don't like the gramps team. I find him to be very useless as a player. But mostly i just hate teams to have a chance to win that always come in last (or 2nd to last). They have never come in first, or anything near that. If they won, i would be quite upset.

As for yeller dad ron. I don't really like him either. I like christina and mostly think she is great.  BUt even though ron does not yell anymore. I still cannot say i've actually seen him do anything.

And to me this is about a team, not one person. Christina does everything. She makes all the decisions. Makes all the flight arrangements. Deals with all the taxis.

Ron just follows her.

My favorite team that is left is tk and rachel. I think they are lovely people and would like them to win. Although i think christina deserves it more.

As for jen and nate, it was unfortunate. But i don't really think they were to blame. There were a series of unfortunate events.

1.they did not get on the first flight with father/daughter.

Now i wonder if there was room or if christina made that lady tell them it was full (it looked like she did and if she did then i am very against that). That really bugged me.

2.they did not get on that train even though they had more than 5 minutes (and therefore had to wait for 30+ minutes allowing tk and rachel to catch up).

i wonder if they could have purchased their tix through the machine.

3. the local told them it would be faster on the subway.
i would probably have listened to the local too!

The thing that actually bugged me most about this episode was that the tasks did not take any time. Walking on rocks. I mean come on. The tasks need to be difficult so that it's not first come, first finished.

And the speed bump took maybe 5 minutes. Dumb (even though i love tk and rachel).





Here are some interviews with the eliminated team:

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-amazing-race/exclusive-interview-jennifer-a-15684.aspx

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20171482,00.html

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-jennifer-parker-nathan-hagstrom-dish-on-the-amazing-race-6393.php

I agree, Miss Karen - the film stinks.  Too many of the songs were cut, in particular "Free" (the cornerstone of the entire story, IMO), to be replaced by the plunkly-wunkly wails and warbles of Ken Thorne.  And Phil Silvers as Marcus Lycus - if they'd kept the role a supporting player, instead of beefing it up the way they did...

I wonder if that had anything to do with the fact that (if I remember correctly) they originally wanted Phil Silvers as Pseudolus in the original Broadway production.  He turned it down and they gave it to Zero, who won the Tony Award®.  Phil eventually played the role in the 1970s revival and also the Tony®.

My morning appointment with the endodontist went well.  He was replacing the build-up material he put in on Dec. 10.  He told me last month that he would need to do this before I could go back to my dentist because the build-up material showed, in the X-ray, signs of blood contamination (from the gum sawing he did!!!) and that the build-up is what my dentist will place the crown over.  He wanted this material to be pure and properly formed.

So....he worked on me for about 35 minutes....I was properly numbed (he'd asked me before starting if I wanted to forego numbing....NO WAY, JOSE!).  It's a good thing, too, because he needed to notch some bone and do a slight bit of cauterizing.

Needless to say, it "sounds" worse than it was.  The "taste", though, is unpleasant...and the numbing is wearing off.  

~~~Teeth Recovery Vibes for DR Ron!!~~~

~~~Feel Better Vibes for DR Jeanne!!~~~

Congrats to DR GEORGE on 16,000 posts!

Thanks, JRand and Miss Karen for the posts congrats!

TOD, and I've got a lot to say:

CARMEN JONES:  great score, severely truncated for the film, and today we have Audra MacDonald. . . .We've got Brian Stokes Mitchell.

PORGY AND BESS - we've got Audra.

CAROUSEL - we've got Hugh Jackman.  We've got Kristen Chenoweth for Carrie.  We've got Barbara Cook for Nettie.

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER - we've got Kristen, again.  Maybe Hugh could play the good doctor, though I'd like to hear what Stokes would do the the score.   Idina Menzel might even make for an interesting Daisy.

I'm like DR Ginny on CABARET, a film I really didn't appreciate enough until I had read the Isherwood.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC with Ann-Margret as Desiree, Christine Baranski as The Countess, Angela Lansbury as Mme. Armfelt, Amy Adams as Anne, Alicia Witt as Fredericka, Daniel Radcliffe as Henrick, Stokes (again) as Count Carl-Magnus and Nathan Fillion as Frederick.

BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS with Queen Latifah as Jewell, Reba McIntyre as Miss Mona, Tom Wopat as Ed Earl, Michael McKean as the governor.

TOD (Part Two) Things I would greenlight that have not been done:

BIG RIVER - attach Michael (FLICKA) Mayer as director.

SIDE SHOW - get the gals from B'way and give it to Tim Burton.

FOLLIES - BUT, reconceive it at a Hollywood soundstage about to be torn apart, gather up the living MGM girls and start shooting. . .

NINE - shoot it in black & white, with the exception of "The Grand Canal" sequence and let Woody Allen direct it.

I've only done a page or so so far - although I did quite a lot of revising before I did the new page, so that has to count for something.  I'll definitely do two or three more pages, then I just want to get this batch of over fifty pages to muse Margaret first thing in the morning.

Ron, my immediate thought was that "CharlieIves" is either Avi Hearn (The Mark Of Score-o or any number of other usernames) or Robert John Guttke, who returns from time to time using other names).   My guess is that it's the former, but I suppose it could be the latter.