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« Reply #240 on: September 27, 2008, 05:44:58 PM »

Quakes?  As in the cereals Quisp and Quake?
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« Reply #241 on: September 27, 2008, 05:47:47 PM »

George:

Yesterday, you announced being cast in Orton's Loot.  

CONGRATULATIONS!

Der B and I enjoyed the play when it was presented by the International City Theater in Long Beach.  It's good social satire, unafraid of making it's jabs.  You'll have a good time.

Just be careful - at ICT the thrust stage was given a very steep rake, and at one point a significant prop fell and rolled off the stage!  Fortunately, one of the actors was also a trained circus clown, and mimed opening a window, climbed out, fetched the unfortunate prop and returned to the stage the way he came.  Obviously not part of the script, his action brought down the house.

The moral being: BE PREPARED FOR ANY AND EVERYTHING!!!

Have a great time!

I bet it was a glass eyeball!
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« Reply #242 on: September 27, 2008, 05:54:51 PM »

I assume Jane that comment  is directed towards me, because I was the one that responded to Cilla's "lower middle-class" post.  If you can explain to me what the untruths about Obama and is  so-called cousin has to do with whether or not Obama had a lower middle-class backgound, then I will be very happy to apologize.

I can't speak for Cilla's reasoning.  I found it to be another example of a family member who isn't "lower" class.  I can't count the number of times I have read about his cousin & their "relationship" in the news, so often that I didn't think of the example as a negative against Obama.  As I stated derBrucer explained it better than I can "But Cilla did NOT report the allegations as truth (which they surely are not) but that the rumor was rife (which it surely is)."
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« Reply #243 on: September 27, 2008, 06:04:12 PM »

Little Roomba is stuck in the corner of my office.  He/she is fun to watch.
If der B and I had a Roomba, the poor thing would suffer a nervous breakdown.   :-\
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« Reply #244 on: September 27, 2008, 06:08:45 PM »

...For months I've been telling Keith I'm writing in Ron Paul, at least he understands the economic situation.

Honestly, I don't know how I'm going to vote.

I definately need new glasses.  At first, I read that as RuPaul.
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« Reply #245 on: September 27, 2008, 06:10:39 PM »

Trying to catch up here, but I've also got to get dinner on the table.

Salisbury steaks with mushroom gravy.
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« Reply #246 on: September 27, 2008, 06:14:30 PM »

Oh, I also obtained a library card today from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
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« Reply #247 on: September 27, 2008, 06:14:47 PM »

Good Evening!

OK... Yes, the gray and drizzly conditions today kept things on the cool side, but, if it's going to rain, just RAIN!
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« Reply #248 on: September 27, 2008, 06:20:08 PM »

Hugs and vibes to DR DANISE - who was always there.
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« Reply #249 on: September 27, 2008, 06:24:10 PM »

I just returned from a most interesting tour of the Amazon facility where my son works. I wish I could have taken photos, but cameras were not allowed.
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« Reply #250 on: September 27, 2008, 06:28:43 PM »

Well.....as someone who went through something similar here on HHW, and I can only say to DR CILLA LIZ that there is not one politician's toe that is worth the fellowship of those here on HHW....

There are some popular prominent politicians whose names send me right over the edge, and when they are lauded and praised even here - it is all I can do to keep from expressing my views.  

Political arguments always turn personal because politics is such a personal and heartfelt part of our lives.  We don't come to our views lightly, and it's hard to see how a reasonable and intelligent person CANNOT see things the way we do.

And because HHW is filled with reasonable and intelligent people, it's even more distressing when someone expresses an opposing viewpoint or chastises us in one way or another for writing something.

I think that the people who really RUN our country and our economy are NOT elected.  They wouldn't get anywhere near politics, they work behind the scenes and buy politicians like M & M's right up to the highest office in the land.

If the will of people was really the motivating force behind ANY office holder, this country would be a much better place.

As for write-in votes.....I won't be able to vote the Hottentot Write In Ticket as I did in 1992 and 1998....

Betty Hutton for President
Gale Storm for Vice President

Those gals could get it done!
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« Reply #251 on: September 27, 2008, 06:29:22 PM »

I just returned from a most interesting tour of the Amazon facility where my son works. I wish I could have taken photos, but cameras were not allowed.

Were they packing my preorder of the Mickey Mouse Club presents ANNETTE dvd?  ;D
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« Reply #252 on: September 27, 2008, 06:31:27 PM »

Sounds like the Karen Morrow thang went well....I wonder what the most interesting Q in the Q & A was?

I also await the dinner party report?  I hope there were celebrities there....every LA dinner party should have at least one celebrity.
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« Reply #253 on: September 27, 2008, 06:41:31 PM »

One interesting thing Karen said was that she got her first audition in NY within a day of arriving there, and four days later she replaced Joanne Worley in an off-B'way show (in 1960).  She then stood by for Tammy Grimes in the road company of Molly Brown, and then took over the role.  I then asked her how many times she went on for Miss Grimes while standing by - the answer?  One.  Which led the discussion where I wanted - the fact that in days of old (up until about twenty years ago) stars and leading players would have rather DIED than miss a performance and let their understudy go on.  Now, it's all personal days, and people missing if their having sniffles, or PMS, or a headache, or they need to do a concert somewhere.  It was unthinkable back then and frankly it should be unthinkable now.  Miss Morrow told of being told she had to miss a performance (of Drood, I think) because they wanted to see how the understudy was.  She didn't want to miss, and, in fact, hung out at the theater because she felt she should be going on.  She was very frank and forthcoming - the other interesting discussion was belting now vs. classic belting by folks like her - the Susan Johnsons of the world.  Karen doesn't consider what's done by the Idinas, etc. as belting at all.  And she blames composers for pushing that sort of thing into higher and higher keys.
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« Reply #254 on: September 27, 2008, 06:43:46 PM »

Interesting...........what was the audience response to those answers?
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« Reply #255 on: September 27, 2008, 06:44:56 PM »

The other great story she told was being in Follies out here for the Long Beach CLO.  Susan Johnson was also in the company, and Susan Johnson was Karen's idol, as Karen loved Ooh, My Feet and everything else Miss Johnson did in The Most Happy Fella (Miss Morrow eventually played that role for a Civic Center revival a few years later).  When she finally met her, she cried for about a week, she said.  Then, on opening night, Miss Johnson gave her a gift - the very gift that Frank Loesser had given her on opening night of Fella - a genuine amethyst tie pin (those who know the show will understand).  She said to Karen, "I can't think of anyone who should have this more than you."
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« Reply #256 on: September 27, 2008, 06:45:04 PM »

I know that I a totally uneducated in all things musical, but my opinion is that a lot of the songs are being yelled now.
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« Reply #257 on: September 27, 2008, 06:45:20 PM »

The audience ate her up and loved all the stories.  
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« Reply #258 on: September 27, 2008, 06:45:52 PM »

Welcome nine GUESTS.
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« Reply #259 on: September 27, 2008, 06:46:18 PM »

Were they packing my preorder of the Mickey Mouse Club presents ANNETTE dvd?  ;D

I'm pretty sure I saw it there on the conveyor belt!
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« Reply #260 on: September 27, 2008, 06:47:22 PM »

One of the things I did was bring in a couple of people who've done professional work.  She worked with them just as she worked with the students, and the pros loved it.  And I told the audience I'd done it because real professionals never stop learning - never WANT to stop learning.  I think that hit home with quite a few people.
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« Reply #261 on: September 27, 2008, 06:47:22 PM »

We are getting a big windstorm.
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« Reply #262 on: September 27, 2008, 06:49:21 PM »

I ate three small licorice twists.  They did not curb my hunger or my enthusiasm to eat.  Forty-five more minutes to food.  Cousin Dee Dee usually has some sort of appetizer, and that will do the trick.  I had to do the long jog faster than usual this morning, since I was running a little late, so I feel I can eat well this evening, and damn it to HELL, I will.
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« Reply #263 on: September 27, 2008, 06:49:27 PM »

I'm pretty sure I saw it there on the conveyor belt!

Oh thank goodness.....I can breathe again....thanks!  ;D
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« Reply #264 on: September 27, 2008, 06:49:39 PM »

Will we never get to page ten?
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« Reply #265 on: September 27, 2008, 06:51:20 PM »

The audience ate her up and loved all the stories.  

Of course.   A few decades ago, I bought the OBC LP of a show called DONNYBROOK! that I had never heard of....with people I didn't know, but I liked the cover.

And Miss Susan Johnson sang a song called "Sad Was the Day" that was so on the money and FUNNY, that I played that song until the band was a different color than the rest of the LP.  8)
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« Reply #266 on: September 27, 2008, 06:52:00 PM »

We are getting a big windstorm.

I thought the election was in November.  :P
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« Reply #267 on: September 27, 2008, 06:53:05 PM »

...She then stood by for Tammy Grimes in the road company of Molly Brown, and then took over the role....

Just looked in my preteen/teen scrapbook and, yup, I have the Fisher Theatre (Detroit) program booklet for the Wednesday, August 1, 1962, matinee.  It was the 3rd professional tour I saw and the first in the then-newly-refurbished Fisher.  My parents had seen the show earlier in its run and my dad got tickets for my grandmother and me for that matinee.  My Grandma had a broken arm, so I, at the advanced age of 11, was kind of her escort.  I felt very grown up.  
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« Reply #268 on: September 27, 2008, 06:54:17 PM »

DR GINNY it pays to NEVER throw those things away.....
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« Reply #269 on: September 27, 2008, 06:55:06 PM »

Political arguments always turn personal

Up until the last election I was never involved in a heated political discussion that became personal, NEVER!


Oddly I have never had a friend who was of the Republican Party persuasion berate me, or bash me for my views.  I have only been respected or at the least, forgiven. ;)

Sadly I have been badgered, berated & bashed by Democrats for expressing any opposing views regarding the Democratic candidates.  

Having experiencing only friendly discussions most of my life I don’t understand how the line crosses to a personal attack simply because someone sees things differently.  I judge people by their kindness & actions, not by their political views.  
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