Haines His Way

...DR Jason your CD should be arriving any day now!

Pass the peanuts! It's today!! Thanks so much!!

Here's Abie resting with the sheep. that's it, I promise, but this phone/camera is way cool.

I never saw a purple house
And thought I'd never see one
But does it mean that I'm a louse
'Cuz I'd rather see than be one?

It's actually blue - just looks purple in the photo.

I am not in Pannivision....

Lovely house...I love shutters!

Nice photos, Panni, and no we are not in Cinerama.

That is a very cute house Panni...and Abie is a cutie too!

Oh Eight Men Out is on Showtime.  You have to tape and freeze frame to see me in the courtroom....but DREvilKurt plays one of the lawyers.  I wonder if I will get my royalty check this month?

Good Afternoon!

-Well, actually it still feels like "Good Morning" to me right now...  All my "plans" for getting up early went by the wayside this morning, but my sleeping in may have an upshot so...

I moved from the bed to the really comfy couch around 10:30... Then finally got off the couch around 1:30 (after "Y&R" ).  So...  I'm doing a load of laundry, and then I need to start packing... And since I only have my clothes and my kitchen stuff to pack up, it shouldn't take too long at all... And since I slept in, I should now be awake enough to go ahead and head back to Richmond tonight after the closing night party (that's the upshot)... We shall see how the day progresses.

I just wish the weather wasn't so gray and gloomy today - and the rain is supposed to move in tonight too.  The gray is just making me feel tired, so... I guess that's sort of appropriate for a closing night.

Topic of the Day: Nothing... BUT starting next week, watch out!  Again, we'll see...

DR Panni - I don't think we're in widescreen, but on my laptop it does seem a little "enhanced", but that's not a bad thing.

To tie up some of the posts from today...  I did a summer at Amish Acres Round Barn Theatre in Nappanee, Indiana, and my first show there was Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair.  -In fact, it was the first production of the show post-Broadway - well, I think there was one done by a larger theatre a few months before.  In any case, my piano/conductor score turned out the be the original one used by Kay Cameron on the tour - all her markings were in it - in pencil!

OK - Time to start packing up...  -sort of a Brigadoon reference...

"Jeannie's packing up
Jeannie's moving out..."

-Oh, and when I did the show in high school, of course, the alternate lyric to that song was a bit "adult"...

"Jose's packing up
Jose's _______ out..."

 

YES!  I must start packing!

-OH!!! And during the chase, can you figure out what we sang instead of "Harry Beaton..."  ?!?!?!?  

When comping vocals, I have been known to use different syllables from different takes - not often, but I've done it.  NOW it's quite easy.  THEN, almost impossible (you had to cut the actual tape).  I'm sorry, and I know I wasn't there, but she does not have to sound like she does on the CD.

When comping vocals, I have been known to use different syllables from different takes - not often, but I've done it.  NOW it's quite easy.  THEN, almost impossible (you had to cut the actual tape).  I'm sorry, and I know I wasn't there, but she does not have to sound like she does on the CD.

I haven't heard the CD, and I saw the movie only when it was released. How do you compare Lucy's Mame with her Wildcat? I don't mind the latter - her voice has character.

Best Book:  BK for “The Triplets of Kritzerville”

Best Producer:  Mark Bakalor for “Baby”

Best Solo Performance:  Danise for “Alone in the Big Apple”

Best Supporting Roles (Tie): elmore3003 and Jane for “The Phone Calls”

Best Musical (wedding):   Noel and Joy in “I Do, I Do.”

Best Revival:  Ron as “RLP”


........okay, maybe these are lame, but it was something different for Tony Weekend.

First of all, thanks everyone for all the lovely sentiments about Cully. He was a swell dog.  If you look in the dictionary under "staunch" there'd be a picture of the Cullster.  He also had the sweetest, most benign temperment for a dog I've ever seen. He was also very smart/  And he was a mama's boy; he bonded with Julieanne and would wait for her in the front hall to come home at night when his day truly began.  We used to call him Cully-Wait-By-The-Window for his steadfast expectancy.  We also used to call him Hoover because he could find any speck of anything edible (and with Cully that included a lot that wouldn't normally be edible) and Hoover it with his muzzle on the floor.  

Oddly, enough he was destined to be our dog.  We both had seen him in a pet store in Century City seperately at various different times and had both been tempted to buy him on impulse.  He was absolutely gorgeous, but for some reason was not selling and each time, either I or Julieanne would go by, his price had been dropped.  It was heartbreaking.  He always had such a look of eager-to-please earnestness about his face.  We both always resisted our urge to buy him because we had in our minds getting another Yorkie.  And then that November we found Humbug, our golden cocker.  That December for Christmas, our friend Larry got a dog from a girlfriend (who was dumping him) -- It was Cully!  Though Larry tried valiantly, his lifestyle was not suited to having a pet.  When I was going off to shoot DRAGONHEART in Slovakia, Julieanne wanted a companion dog for Humbug.  I said:  "Humbug loves Cully.  Let's asks Larry if he wants us to take him off his hands."  We did.  He did.  And Cully...who was always destined to be ours...made his circuitious route into the family.  And our hearts.  Thanks  again, for all the well-wishes.

Did anyone else watch Tarzan And His Mate last night on TCM?  Bob Osbourne goes on at length about the restored nude swimming scene. Telling how it's in the new DVD pack of M-G-M Tarzan films, etc.  Then they show a version where the "nude" scene is cut!  I think they better re-check the version that's going out in the pack next week.  

There was also a nice documentary on the films with pals, Rudy Behlmer and Tracy Griffin, ERB authority and once president of my Branch of the Burroughs Bibliophile...The LA Sub-ERBS.

SPOILERS!  READ NO FURTHER IN THIS SECTION.  IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW DETAILS ABOUT BUNNY LAKE!

I watched Bunny Lake Is Missing the other night, having forgotten most of it. Aside from Laurence Olivier's rather unusual performance and clips of the Zombies on the pub TV...the film's a bit of a dud.  Keir Dullea is telegraphing his performance so much that you say: "It can't be him."  he's making it way too obvious...but unfortunately it stays obvious.  And then when Carol Lynley leads him into childhood reversion, I'm sure she's actually going to wander around with a blindfold over her face, playing blindman's bluff, for a full minute while her child is in jeopardy. Peek you idiot! That whole scene goes on too long and is interminable, especially the swings part.  And the American child who speaks with a British accent. And Noel Coward as a womanizer!  It's such a transparent and badly constructed mystery.  The police could have checked two things immediately that would have answered their most nagging question.  The passenger list of the steamers (getting the name of the boat from her...not the weirdo brother) and , even more simple, check with American passport authorities as to whether a passport had been issued for Bunny Lake.  Badly conceived murder plot, incompetent villain who planned it, some embarrassing performances.

END OF SPOILERS!

DVD...Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a TV play with Jack Palance...the best Jekyll & Hyde I've ever seen.

CD...THE VERY BEST OF DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

I remember when AA did STATE FAIR

My name is Abel Frake and I'm an alcoholic.

Hi Abel.

BEST PRODUCER: Mark Bakalor for "BABY..."

Am I missing something? Is Mr. Bakalor a father?!?!