Haines His Way

DR Jrand wrote: "didn't BB OF 1938 also feature Leif Erickson?  Married at that time of course to Frances Farmer...."

Yep, he was in it looking very hunky indeed, but his and Dorothy Lamour's romance was not much to write home about - very sedate.

We're not too big on cereals.

I've a hunch I'd stick with the oldies, if I were.  Cheerios, Corn Flakes, that sort of thing.

I've heard Corn Flakes make a good breading for fried chicken.  Something tells me Cheerios wouldn't be as good in that job, too large and round.  It would be like eating a drumstick with tiny oaty tires attached to it.

Question For BK- I saw "What If?" last week on Monday.  I found it very funny, but I was also greatly touched by two of the ballads.  One was "Millions Of Men" sung by Paul Haber and the other was "Simply" performed by Tammy Minoff.  Since it was your very first public performance, understandably there were no programs.  My question is who wrote these beautiful songs and how/where did you find them?

I'm so glad you were touched by the songs.  One of the little criticisms that's been consistent is that critics don't understand why we have any material like that in the show - why we do material that in their minds is superfluous to the What If theme of the show.  But we state quite clearly in the opening number our mantra: What if we do whatever we want?  Old-fashioned revues did this - they just did funny stuff, moving stuff, whatever worked, especially to show off the performers.  Critics today don't even know what an old-fashioned revue IS.  But the audiences seem to "get" what we're doing and that's the most important thing.  

To the question: Millions of Men is by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.  It's a song they wrote as a candidate for I Do! I Do!, although it was never even considered for the show ultimately.  Until Harvey sent it to me, no one had ever heard it.  I fell in love with it instantly, and when I had dinner with him when he was here for the Pasadena Playhouse tribute I told him we'd be doing it and both he and Tom were thrilled about it.

Simply is by me and is actually from my stage adaptation of The First Nudie Musical.  I hadn't thought about it for the revue, but Tammy remembered my playing it for her a year ago and she really wanted to sing it.

Stop me if you heard this one:

A blonde calls her boyfriend on the phone and says, "Sweetie, can you come over and help me with this jigsaw puzzle I bought today?  It's real hard!"

The boyfriend asks, "What's the picture on the box?" and the blonde replies, "Well, it's supposed to be a picture of a rooster, but all the pieces are the same color and none of them seem to fit together.  Could you come over and help me please?"

The boyfriend rushes to the blonde's apartment.  She leads him to the dining room.  

"I've spread out all the pieces on the dining room table," she says.

The boyfriend takes one look at the table and says...

"Honey, let's put the corn flakes back in the box."

Dan TM - As a blonde, I protest!

I'm waiting for Adelphia. The men in boots for the AC are already here. The "men" seem to be about 15 and do not speak English. The wonderdog is not crazy about the boys in boots. An exciting morning around the home environment.  ...I vant to be alone.

"Veuillez me montrer où est votre climatiseur?"

Sugar Crisps is now called Golden Crisps?  Noooo!!!!

That was my favorite cereal when I was a kid.  My parents would not buy it.  But my grandmother would.  And whenever we went to sleep over there, it would be our special treat.

Okay that made me really sad, cause it's been like ten years since my grandma died.

Oh btw, I think Honey Nut Corn Flakes also has a different name now.  Something like Honey N Nut Crunch.  But I like the old name better.

Oh, and when I was little, I really really wanted Legos. My brother had a whole lot, but he would never let me play with them. Sometimes I would steal a handful and play with them in my room until my brother caught me and took them back.

And last Christmas, I got two sets of Harry Potter Legos and I was so excited! And, if you remember, I was cleaning out my closet and found a plastic tub full of my brother's old Legos from before we switched rooms. At last! I have lots of Legos!!

We didn't have much luck playing board games as a family. I remember playing Yahtzee once when we were camping, but none of us knew how to play, so we were really just throwing dice around. And we played Clue a few times. We lost the Miss Scarlet piece and replaced it with a red golf tee from the campground's goofy golfing course.

My cousin and I used to play The Game of Life a lot, but we changed some of the rules.  Once a game was over, you would divorce your wife.  Then you would spin the wheel to determine who got the children (by calling odd or even on each spin.)  Then you went around the board again, getting married again and getting more children, and once more divorcing and spinning off the kids.  Somehow or other, alimony and child support were involved but I forget how that worked.  The fun part was in trying to pack all your kids into one car.

Catching up from yesterday. Happy belated Birthday S Woody White.

I'm back. My server was down (sounds like a kinky butler) but it now seems to be working.

From yesterday radio.

CBC----Cross Country Check Up
            Gilmor's Albums
             Metropolitian Opera
             Sunday morning newsmagazine shows
             PEter Czowski
             CBC's "drive home"
             Any Radio Drama
             17 Blocks of Broadway (I was a guest on it once)
            funny You Should Say That (my father did some writing for it)

CBC overnight plays programming from other public radio station. When I had insomina it was a pleasure to listen to

In Montreal  CJAD worked on two shows there in the late 80's/early 90's. They had interesting over nighters that played old time radio.

CFCF when they had the baseball and hockey games. I worked for their TV arm. But the station eventually went downhill.

The saga continues - The boss of the Boys in Boots is a man in boots and looks like Anthony LaPaglia (except for the tattoos that cover both his muscular arms). What's unusual for someone like him is that he smells REALLY good - some kind of cologne or aftershave, I guess. (Before you run with this, all you lovely people out there in the dark, I know how he smells because my guesthouse is very tiny and he came in to test the thermostat.)
Everything seems to be working fine and they've left. Adelphia just showed up. Busy times.

Cereal?  Then and now:  Lucky Charms...when the only marshmallows that they had were only Pink hearts, yellow moons, blue stars and green clovers...and that's it!  Now, I also really like Honey Nut Cherrio's.

As for a toy that I "truly, truly wanted when you were a lad, but never received?"  If there were such a thing for me, I've forgotten about it.

My favorite board games as a child were and still are (because my family still plays them) Sorry, Aggravation and Monopoly.  Monopoly, however, is only played when we KNOW we have a lot of time.  Between everyone in the family, we probably have five different Monopoly games.  The average one, the Star Wars edition, a reproduction of the original 1930s one, a local knock-off called "Oly-opoly" and at least one other.