Haines His Way

Hmm, thanks for the explanations.  DR CharlesPogue's version seems to make sense.

BK must have a camel-toe baseball cap!  Thanks for the page, Der Brucer!  On the first page of celebrity camel-toes is a pic of pal, lucious June Wilkinson, on the cover of fifties men's mag, called RAPTURE, and she's displaying a fine camel-toe.  The haikus are hysterical!

This page is killing me.  In toe-talk, they have other euphemisms for cameltoe...like crotch waffle or yo-yo smuggler.  This is one funny page!

Great new Avatar DRDANISE!!

I, too, was remiss in commenting on it, and I think it's lovely.  Still, DRDanise, I miss seeing you there!

I've been out all day, first the recording office, then FINDING NEVERLAND with goddaughter Charlotte.  What a beautiful film!  The film's images brought to mind several things:
  1.  Johnny Depp and the dancing bear sequence reminded me of Frederick Ashton's ballet based on Rimbaud "Les Illuminations," interesting since the book that started the whole megillah, J.M. BARRIE AND THE LOST BOYS, promotes a latent pedophilic attachment between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys.
  2.  Julie Christie's growing concern over Barrie brought to mind the great scene in DREAMCHILD when Mrs Liddell (Jane Asher) realizes Charles Dodson's regard for Alice may be more than she, or even he, imagined.  There's a lot of Wonderland in Neverland.
  3.  Kate Winslet's removal to Neverland, with the fairies in attendance, recalled Titania and her court.
  4.  The overall approach to the story reminded me of TOPSY-TURVY, which I thought was a better film.
  5.  I thought Dustin Hoffman as gay producer Charles Frohman, who died on the Lusitania, looked like Stephen Sondheim!
  6.  So, if Mrs Llewelyn Davies, nee du Maurier, is a relative of Gerald Du Maurier, why isn't he acknowledged as the original Capatain Hook/Mr Darling?
  7.  The original Peter Pan, Nina Boucicault, was the daughter (?) of Dion Boucicault, the Irish playwright.
  8.  The string quartet playing in the living room reminded me of the original performance of Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll."

Lots of resonances, a simplified  but moving version of a truly tragic story, and I loved it.

Hmm, that seems like an okay size.  Here is me in front of the Xmas tree:

DRJennifer, great photo!

  2.  Julie Christie's growing concern over Barrie brought to mind the great scene in DREAMCHILD when Mrs Liddell (Jane Asher) realizes Charles Dodson's regard for Alice may be more than she, or even he, imagined.  There's a lot of Wonderland in Neverland.

DREAMCHILD is one of my favorite movies. Sadly, it's not widely known, even by film aficionados.

I also really enjoyed FINDING NEVERLAND.

I watched a bit of POINT BLANK last night on TCM.  You know, when Angie Dickinson had a real part and a director, she was okay.  And I have to say, she is one stunner of a gal!

Anybody ever meet her or work with her?  Who wrote that jazzy theme for POLICE WOMAN....Pepper Anderson took no guff from nobody!

We did a Gershwin symposium at the Library of Congress together with many other Gershwin personnel around 1995.  Angie spoke about playing poker at Ira's house in a wonderful seminar on the Ira-Leonore Beverly Hills house on Roxbury.  I was on a panel about musical theatre orchestration and restoration with Russell Warner, Rob Fisher, John McGlinn, and Jonathan Tunick.

Miss Dickinson was a delight, and her stories were quite amusing.

DRPanni, a little help from Gilbert & Sullivan:

I get by with a little help from my friends...

UGH!!!!  The whole house still smells like chemically-produced faux-caramel apple stink!!!

Why-O! Why-O! Why-O!

But I guess it could be worse, it could smell like today's unseemly Topic of conversation.

DR Jose, thanks for your comments on the musical licensing agencies. We actors often have problems with the scores and scripts, too, full of unerased pencil and, with FOREVER PLAID if I'm remembering, piano scores that indicated notes that were different than what the actors had in their scores, VERY different.

Yep, Tams used to be the black sheep of musical licensers, but the last two or three Tams shows I did didn't have sides for the actors but regular scripts like the other agencies. TITANIC and NUNCRACKERS both had scripts rather than sides - thankfully.

I'm still trying to decide if I learned anything this year.  Hmmmm . . .

What's that adage about new dogs and old tricks?

Isn't there also that adage about old dogs and young tricks?

...But that discussion is best left for another day... And another internet site...

 

DR Jose, thanks for your comments on the musical licensing agencies. We actors often have problems with the scores and scripts, too, full of unerased pencil and, with FOREVER PLAID if I'm remembering, piano scores that indicated notes that were different than what the actors had in their scores, VERY different.

Yep, Tams used to be the black sheep of musical licensers, but the last two or three Tams shows I did didn't have sides for the actors but regular scripts like the other agencies. TITANIC and NUNCRACKERS both had scripts rather than sides - thankfully.

Tams more recent acquisitions are in "standard" format.  It's just too time-consuming and budget-consuming to have a team of people break apart the scripts into prompt books.  And since most shows are, hopefully - well "prepared" for their initial runs, all a licensing company has to do now is just transfer over the computer files - the text and music - into their system, and start up their printers.

I just got this off the internet:

"NBC says production on the new L&O installment, Trial by Jury, starring Orbach, will continue. The series is set to debut in early 2005 and costars Bebe Neuwirth. Orbach will appear in three of the first six shows. "

Stick with the movie, BK - I'm hoping it'll be worth your time.

OK - I'm off to the theatre.. With, most likely, another trip to Macy's on the way...

Laters...