Topic: YAHTZEE (Read 27561 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #30 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:28:37 AM »

I hadn't watched PROJECT RUNWAY yet, but USA TODAY had a big interview article with the winner, so I know who won without watching the show. I'll watch anyway to see the fashions.

Matt H. · « **Reply #31 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:34:25 AM »

Page Two Wicked Witch Dance!!!

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #32 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:35:25 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 06, 2008, 12:17:30 AM

And the word of the day is: NOCEBO!

And The Song Of The Day Is: I WANNA BE AROUND

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #33 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:39:10 AM »

BK-

What happened to your viewing of The Orson Welles Film?

Did you watch it to completion?

Matt H. · « **Reply #34 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:40:05 AM »

I have to agree with BK: THE HOT ROCK just doesn't work. I, too, wanted to love it as I (as well as the rest of the world) was having a love affair with Robert Redford at the time, but it's just dead in the water. I got the DVD some years ago hoping it had aged well or I had somehow grown to be able to appreciate its charms, but they were nonexistent. A real pity.

Matt H. · « **Reply #35 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:44:11 AM »

The board game I first remember playing a lot as a young child was CHUTES AND LADDERS. I used to get SO frustrated with it, but my brother and I played it all the time. Another early board game I really loved was GO TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS.

I've mentioned here before that I didn't even get introduced to CANDYLAND until I was a sophomore or junior in high school. The younger brother of a neighborhood friend had no one to play with, and I'd go down and play this with him every afternoon when I wasn't busy with school activities.

I've mentioned here before about my fondness for DISNEYLAND, introduced to me at a children's birthday party, and after the party, I just couldn't live without having one for myself, so my mom took me downtown to the "dime store" and got it for me. Played it incessantly for years.

And I've also talked about my adoration of CAREERS which not one of my friends could stand at all. So I didn't get to play it much.

Matt H. · « **Reply #36 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:46:07 AM »

I've never really liked Parcheesi or SORRY or RISK or LIFE.

I did adore Parker Bros.' CLUE and, of course, MONOPOLY. I remember long into the night sessions of MONOPOLY at the beach once we'd come in from the Pavilion

TCB · « **Reply #37 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:57:08 AM »

Thank you very much, Coleslaw! I have been singing and humming that damn ANOTHER HUNDRED PEOPLE for the past three hours.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #38 on:** March 06, 2008, 07:57:55 AM »

A vacuum created for Penny O to fill:

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Endangered dance species...another critic bites the dust
By Sasha Anawalt

Lewis Segal, chief dance critic for the Los Angeles Times, learned Friday that the paper will no longer support a full-time dance critic. His position is being eliminated. This after a week in which he wrote three feature-length reviews, a Sunday piece and a long obit.

In a city where dance riddles the inner sanctums of churches, temples, community centers, clubs, gymnasiums and zocalos, to say nothing of the nearly 280 legit performance spaces in mainstream theaters, large, mid-sized and small -- this signals a gigantic disconnect between the people and press.

Writes Segal, who has been in the post since 1996 and written about dance for the LAT for 12 years before that:

"...my position is being eliminated in the latest round of of staff layoffs and cutbacks...I have followed my supervisors' advice and applied for the Times buyout, which means I'll be off the staff as of the end of this month. However, there is some talk about my freelancing for the paper in the future."

Segal's intrepid and passionate coverage extends to nearly every part of the globe; he is by common consensus one of the most widely travelled arts writers of his generation. It's safe to say that the open, porous and welcoming embrace Angelenos now have particularly for non-Western forms is due to him.

This news comes right as Los Angeles Ballet is making a dent, right as it looks like there might be a relevant and exciting classical company finally anchored in this city. It comes when TV dance shows electrify viewerships and for good reason. Right when there are more languages spoken here than ever before and we must depend on dance watchers to decipher and translate culture from Other to Other. Segal is the right man, the best man, for this job -- and his loss is worth protesting on many fronts.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #39 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:04:33 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 06, 2008, 07:27:53 AM

TV Reminders:

LOST!!!

And for those interested at 8PM - LOST: last week's episode with pop-up annotations

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #40 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:06:55 AM »

TOD

der Brucer

The clue cards, in rhymed verse, were a good learn-to-read-for-fun tool.

brian · « **Reply #41 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:08:12 AM »

First board games I remember were Candyland and Chutes and Ladders; Monopoly was something the whole family played, with various visiting cousins, right thru high school; Then there's that game where you conguer the world,(I forget the name) which a group of us played(post college)while running a Xtian guest house in Ann Arbor in the summer of '72, but I havent played any board bgames since then; I vaguely remeber reading(Earl Wilson?)that Andre and Dory Previn were going to do Mr Chips when Richard Burton & Samanta Eggar were pencilled in for the leads. But I love the way that movie turned out; I'm always careful with the videocassete I made when it was on TCM;Until it's on DVD, I do not want to accidently tape over it

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #42 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:15:15 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 06, 2008, 07:46:07 AM

...at the beach once we'd come in from the Pavilion

And where did you "beach"?

der Brucer

JMK · « **Reply #43 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:25:00 AM »

Still sick. Oy.

Singdaw, that graph is hilarious. Thanks!

MattH, hope you got my e yesterday--package arrived yesterday, thanks so much!

Being sick (the oft-forgotten first draft of the 11 o'clock number for "Company") has had one benefit--I have made it through some DVDs (like the Burton/Taylor ones) and am now getting through some really old piles of OCRs I have had for years. Had a very pleasant listen this morning to the "Far From the Madding Crowd" musical with the Calloways. Some really nice stuff, and Mr. Yeko actually paid for an orchestra on this one.

JMK · « **Reply #44 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:25:24 AM »

First board game was probably Parcheesi.

Matt H. · « **Reply #45 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:36:56 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 06, 2008, 08:15:15 AM

And where did you "beach"?

der Brucer

We went to the beach twice each summer: in June and August. In June we'd go to Myrtle Beach and stay with some bigshots in Springs Industries at the Springmaid Villa.

In August we'd stay with our cousins at Ocean Drive Beach at their beach house.

Both of these were on the South Carolina coast.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:37:28 AM »

Careers!!!

Life!!!

Battleship!!!

and my favorite (after Careers) - CLUE!!!!

And of course RISK!

Matt H. · « **Reply #47 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:38:04 AM »

Yes, DR JMK, I did get your e-mail, and I'm glad the package got to you intact. Hope you enjoy the contents. (Did you find my reviewer's notes mistakenly left inside the case as I suspected?)

Matt H. · « **Reply #48 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:38:38 AM »

Now I must head down and get ready to go out to lunch with friends.

WBBL.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:39:40 AM »

Just remember DR JMK....it could be worse....you could feel like Frances did when she was down in old Mexico!!!

DR ELMORE - Taming of the Shrew turned out to be my favorite in the set....which I recommend again to all. And that girl was GREAT.....I kept seeing a face in the TV promos of that movie who looked famliar....it was her!!! For some reason this almost seemed like a re-do of A POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES....but on more investigation, Miss Pettigrew seems a different animal altogether. I certainly love the era!

JMK · « **Reply #50 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:41:37 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 06, 2008, 08:38:04 AM

Yes, DR JMK, I did get your e-mail, and I'm glad the package got to you intact. Hope you enjoy the contents. (Did you find my reviewer's notes mistakenly left inside the case as I suspected?)

I thought they were part of the set for a minute (no joke). Do you want them back? (I threw them away but can retrieve them).

JMK · « **Reply #51 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:42:15 AM »

Quote from: JRand57 on March 06, 2008, 08:39:40 AM

Just remember DR JMK....it could be worse....you could feel like Frances did when she was down in old Mexico!!!

Interesting, because I did strip yesterday and start spraying my family members with seltzer water.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #52 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:43:29 AM »

DR RLP - SKIP THIS POST.

Today would have been the 78th birthday of Miss Allison Hayes.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #53 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:44:22 AM »

Quote from: JMK on March 06, 2008, 08:42:15 AM

Interesting, because I did strip yesterday and start spraying my family members with seltzer water.

Always the joker.....certainly a wake up call for the people in THAT hotel, she was!!!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #54 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:45:03 AM »

I was disheartened and downhearted and dismayed by the results of PWOJECT WUNWAY and felt I just wasted all of the time I spent watching it because of the thing that won.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #55 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:46:02 AM »

And there they are...her calling cards and raison d'etre for having a B-~~girl~~movie career!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:47:03 AM »

Oh, shucks, JRand. The picture caught my eye and I didn't read before I wrote!

spoO!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #57 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:47:56 AM »

Quote from: JMK on March 06, 2008, 08:42:15 AM

Interesting, because I did strip yesterday and start spraying my family members with seltzer water.

I'll bet the neighbors were scandalized.

JMK · « **Reply #58 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:51:03 AM »

Quote from: JRand57 on March 06, 2008, 08:44:22 AM

Always the joker.....certainly a wake up call for the people in THAT hotel, she was!!!

It totally spoiled Ricardo's rrrriiiccch Corrrriinnnnthiannnn leatherrrrr, if you catch my drrrrrift.

JMK · « **Reply #59 on:** March 06, 2008, 08:51:41 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 06, 2008, 08:47:56 AM

I'll bet the neighbors were scandalized.

Luckily our house is totally secluded from prying eyes.

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