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Re:A ZOMBIE IN NEED OF A HICKY
« Reply #60 on: February 12, 2004, 10:25:33 AM »

Looks like the quote feature worked fine and dandy.

The name Darlene reminds me of a running gag I had growing up in Utah--making up fake names that sounded like real Utah names (I'll let you read between the lines there).  Anyway, some of my favorites were:

Husband named DeVoid
Wife named Rotunda
Son named DiVan
Daughter named VaGeena

I have imported all of these names into my new musical "Attack of the Killer B's", so I will have to bitchslap you from here to Uranus (read between the lines there, too :) ) if you attempt to steal them from me.  You may, however, license them from me for a very modest (high button blouse and sensible skirt and heels) fee.
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Re:A ZOMBIE IN NEED OF A HICKY
« Reply #61 on: February 12, 2004, 10:26:27 AM »

DR JMK: I think William Hung is hysterical. But have you heard him. He literally cannot carry a tune PERIOD.  They showed a piece on him on Entertainment Tonight. And he is hugely popular at his school.  Everyone wants to go karaoking with him.  They showed it, and of course they made him sing "she bang" :)
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Re:A ZOMBIE IN NEED OF A HICKY
« Reply #62 on: February 12, 2004, 10:28:25 AM »

My first real kiss?  ... There I met the man who would be my first real date.

You kissed on the FIRST date! Hussy! (Ruth sans "e")

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« Reply #63 on: February 12, 2004, 10:31:03 AM »

JRAND::::

Jack, Yes it was me looking for "Jeanne Eagels."   It was me!   I was yelling back at the computer.  Couldn't you hear me?!!!?!?!


The first kiss I wanted occurred when I was 15.  I wasn't a late bloomer.  Oh sure, there make-out sessions with boys and girls pairing off, but that does NOT count.   His name was John-- he was an older man of 16(always did like old men--but they seem to happen so much younger these days!)  This was a violins playing, fireworks exploding, movie heaven kiss.  Of course it led to much more than that.  ^ months later my heart was broken.  But what bliss (for the most part) in between.   First other kiss was kindergarten witha girl named Katherine-- who we all callled KC.


All this talk of beauty and being wanted--guys go through the same thing.   I copied something I had read last year.  Barbara Cook was giving a master class, and she so wisely pointed out the following:


"...As Ms. Cook, 74, put it in one of several pithy epiphanies in the course of the class: "It's so hard to believe that what the world wants is us. It's hard to believe, whatever you're doing, that you're enough. We are all, always, enough."
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Re:A ZOMBIE IN NEED OF A HICKY
« Reply #64 on: February 12, 2004, 10:34:41 AM »

MBARNUM:

Michael-- the last I heard of Lee Patterson, he was still living in New York-- even after his days on "One Life to Live."
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« Reply #65 on: February 12, 2004, 10:35:32 AM »

Jennifer, if the voters are influenced by the judges' comments, all the better.  I think the judges give their honest opinions and last night they were dead on...the two that got picked were the two most deserving candidates...head and shoulders above everyone else in that group...with strong voices, good stage presence and showmanship and professionalism.  

And God knows, the judges don't always agree with each other and the audience hardly ever rubber-stamps the judges' opinions...Last year. Josh Gracin kept coming back for weeks long after he should have been eliminated...it had more to do with cheap, easy patriotism because he was a Marine than his dodgy talent.  And he wasn't any judges' favourite.
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« Reply #66 on: February 12, 2004, 10:36:38 AM »

This is so good, I'm going to repeat it:

"It's so hard to believe that what the world wants is us. It's hard to believe, whatever you're doing, that you're enough. We are all, always, enough."

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« Reply #67 on: February 12, 2004, 10:44:46 AM »

Anyway, Jennifer, methinks you may be too young to remember Mrs. Miller or even Tiny Tim.  



Excerpts from Amazon:

“There was no one who sang like Mrs. Miller, for which I'm sure many people are grateful !"

“…don't listen to Mrs. Miller if you are eating or drinking--choking is a definite risk !"

“…Her jarring, sometimes-soprano, always-compelling voice of these cuts inspires cats to howl."

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Re:A ZOMBIE IN NEED OF A HICKY
« Reply #68 on: February 12, 2004, 10:47:00 AM »

I take it that "Memory" finally replaced "People" and "Feelings". How many guys used "Corner of the Sky"?

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..."What I Did For Love" and "All That Jazz" and "Hey, Big Spender" (I've never understood this one - it's a dance number, and most girls don't/can't sing the high notes... and they spend most of the time waiting for the "da, da-du-da, da-da... pling") and "Vanilla Ice Cream" (one high note does not an audition song make!) and the last part of "Soliloquy" and...

As for "Corner of the Sky" - In my experience, it's never been that "popular".  "On the Street Where You Live" and "Something's Coming" seem to be the ones from the Tenor's Greatest hits that get done a lot.  Oh, and "Anthem"...but I think it's in a "low phase" right now.

-And as many of the books out there will tell you... It's not that these songs are overdone... It's just that they usually sung badly!  Many times over!  You can just hear the internal groans when an intro starts sometimes. ;)  Hopefully, the singer will be fully prepared and will knock your socks off!

However, I've never minded "If I Loved You".  A classic indeed!
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Re:A ZOMBIE IN NEED OF A HICKY
« Reply #69 on: February 12, 2004, 10:47:51 AM »

I take it that "Memory" finally replaced "People" and "Feelings". How many guys used "Corner of the Sky"?

der Brucer (who sure misses a really good piano bar! - Laguna Beach is now a rather long drive)

Can anything ever really replace "Feelings"?  This was another running gag of mine (I seem to have gagged a lot, evidently) at a piano bar where I would tell people that unless they kept me busy with requests (and, hopefully, tips), that my OCD would kick in and I'd play 'Feelings' over and over and over.  It worked well.  :)

There was also the hysterical New Yorker cartoon of the pianist with the sign on his piano:  Requests $1.00, "Feelings" $500.00
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« Reply #70 on: February 12, 2004, 10:50:22 AM »

DR JMK you are too twisted for color TV!

DRMBARNUM....5 day weekend?!  Typical Oregon state employee!
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« Reply #71 on: February 12, 2004, 10:50:49 AM »

This is so good, I'm going to repeat it:

"It's so hard to believe that what the world wants is us. It's hard to believe, whatever you're doing, that you're enough. We are all, always, enough."



-And that was one of the times during her master class that I teared up... The sincerity.  The vulnerability.  The truth.  The simple truth.
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« Reply #72 on: February 12, 2004, 10:53:15 AM »

OK - I'm off to be productive... and class... and some errands... Be back later... Keep those home fries burning!  -Although, I think home fries are on the "unapproved" list, but since they're being burned...
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« Reply #73 on: February 12, 2004, 10:54:58 AM »

Since I've never seen AMERICAN IDOL I have never heard William Hung.  However if they are starting to get contestants in the vein of Jonathan & Darlene, Mrs. Miller and Florence Foster Jenkins I may have to start watching.  Is Hung that good/bad?
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« Reply #74 on: February 12, 2004, 10:56:10 AM »

DRMBARNUM....5 day weekend?!  Typical Oregon state employee!

Oh, JR, you madcap fool--the typical Oregon state employee takes a SEVEN day weekend.
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« Reply #75 on: February 12, 2004, 10:58:27 AM »

Sometimes even an 8 or 9 day weekend, if they're really creative.
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« Reply #76 on: February 12, 2004, 11:00:01 AM »

DR KERRY when I watch JEANNE EAGELS I will tape it for you.  Just haven't put it in the VCR yet...she arrived yesterday in all her glory!
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« Reply #77 on: February 12, 2004, 11:04:11 AM »

Can anything ever really replace "Feelings"?  This was another running gag of mine (I seem to have gagged a lot, evidently) at a piano bar where I would tell people that unless they kept me busy with requests (and, hopefully, tips), that my OCD would kick in and I'd play 'Feelings' over and over and over.  It worked well.  :)

There was also the hysterical New Yorker cartoon of the pianist with the sign on his piano:  Requests $1.00, "Feelings" $500.00


Remember poor Eunice Higgins getting gonged before finishing even a single verse of "Feelings"?
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« Reply #78 on: February 12, 2004, 11:05:58 AM »

..Last year. Josh Gracin kept coming back for weeks long after he should have been eliminated...it had more to do with cheap, easy patriotism because he was a Marine than his dodgy talent.  

Don't you think "sex appeal" entered the equation?

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« Reply #79 on: February 12, 2004, 11:09:12 AM »

..Is Hung that good/bad?

And the audience said: "........

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« Reply #80 on: February 12, 2004, 11:19:39 AM »

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We'd visit Key West in the 80s and early 90s. Jay Foote was a fixture there, and over the years he played at various piano bars. He had the scratchiest voice, the scrawniest poodle, and the oldest shtick. There was nothing outwardly charismatic about him. And yet it always felt like home around Jay's piano. Does anyone here remember him?  
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« Reply #81 on: February 12, 2004, 11:30:12 AM »

Hey I am in the Internet Movie Data Base!
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« Reply #82 on: February 12, 2004, 11:33:40 AM »

The CD soundtrack to Triplets of Belleville should be in my mailbox this very day.  

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« Reply #83 on: February 12, 2004, 11:34:36 AM »

They're sending me a replacement TIVO unit because mine keeps jamming up.  They couldn't promise I'd get the same brand, so I told them if it's not the same brand they must send a technician along to hook it up.  
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« Reply #84 on: February 12, 2004, 11:36:24 AM »

LOL...I thought TIVO was the brand!
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« Reply #85 on: February 12, 2004, 11:38:15 AM »

Hey I am in the Internet Movie Data Base!

Tell us more!
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« Reply #86 on: February 12, 2004, 11:47:30 AM »

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« Reply #87 on: February 12, 2004, 11:56:14 AM »

LOL...thanks JMK!  Maybe I should put my one other credit in as well!   ;D
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« Reply #88 on: February 12, 2004, 12:08:15 PM »

LOL...thanks JMK!  Maybe I should put my one other credit in as well!   ;D

Yes, send an incensed email to their Updates section asking why an actor of this stature doesn't have complete, up-to-the-date and accurate information on his listing.

(I sent a fairly subtantive update on someone months ago that has yet to make it onsite, while a trivia item I sent on another person got added almost immediately).
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« Reply #89 on: February 12, 2004, 12:11:46 PM »

Isn't that weird?  Although I have to say they are very good about verifying and adding Allison Hayes material when I find it!
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