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[Maria]

I wonder if Luba Kadison's apartment was rent controlled.

I once visited Dorothy Frooks, an elderly lady lawyer, at Morgans, the too too trendy hotel on Madison Ave. (I was doing research for a screenplay. Miss Frooks had been hired by Harry K. Thaw - yes THE HKT - to defend a young woman accused of murder. Thaw fell for Miss Frooks in the midst of all this. A fascinating story. Frooks is featured as one of the "witnesses" in the movie REDS.)
ANYWAY, Miss Frooks had lived for many years in what had become Morgans. When they were renovating the building to create the chrome-on-chrome hotel, she refused to leave her digs, so her rent could not be raised.
So - when you entered her apartment, you'd go from the terribly trendy hallway and step back 50 years by crossing her threshold. Very unsettling and interesting.
If you want to read a little about Dorothy Frooks, BTW, the Wikipedia entry is TOTALLY wrong. You can find a bit at
http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/practice/dorothy_frooks.html

[Dan (the Man)]

I once visited Dorothy Frooks, an elderly lady lawyer, at Morgans, the too too trendy hotel on Madison Ave. (I was doing research for a screenplay. Miss Frooks had been hired by Harry K. Thaw - yes THE HKT - to defend a young woman accused of murder. Thaw fell for Miss Frooks in the midst of all this. A fascinating story. Frooks is featured as one of the "witnesses" in the movie REDS.)
ANYWAY, Miss Frooks had lived for many years in what had become Morgans. When they were renovating the building to create the chrome-on-chrome hotel, she refused to leave her digs, so her rent could not be raised.
So - when you entered her apartment, you'd go from the terribly trendy hallway and step back 50 years by crossing her threshold. Very unsettling and interesting.
If you want to read a little about Dorothy Frooks, BTW, the Wikipedia entry is TOTALLY wrong. You can find a bit at
http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/practice/dorothy_frooks.html

Good for her!  She sounds like a good ol' gal.

And now I wonder, is Ms. Frooks' apartment in the same shape as you saw it.

[Ginny]

If the resolution is not that important, you can just hit ALT + Print Scrn on the web page and then Paste it into the Word doc.  If you want to be able to clearly read the what's on the webpage, you might have to paste it into Paint and then crop off some of the white space before you paste into the Word doc.

That's more or less what a co-worker just told me - and it worked!  Thanks,  DR Dan(the Man)!

[Dan (the Man)]

As for Wikipedia's accuracy, read this linked article.

[TPunk]

Congratulations, TPunk!!  How did your kids do when you said good-bye?

Things went alright because we have been talking about it for the past 6 weeks or so.  Everything went pretty well yesterday up until the afternoon when I found out the reason why one of my kids wasn't present at school so I could say goodbye.  He had been hospitalized over the weekend and his mother had been arrested (mostly without cause) so that made for a rough and uncertain but I suppose rather fitting end to my internship.

[TPunk]

My mother just booked her first cruise - to Alaska - and she will be almost 88 years old when she sets sail.

My mother just booked her first cruise - also to Alaska - as a 60th birthday present to herself.

[TPunk]

Thank you for all of the good wishes everyone.  I think I am still waiting for it to completely sink in.  Maybe it won't until my diploma is in hand.

[TPunk]

I just had the most amazing lunch with Rodzinski.  I met him at his office and we went to Little India in Queens for an Indian buffet lunch.  I made three trips to ensure we got our money's worth of course.

[TPunk]

Now I am back home doing laundry which is not quite as amazing.

[Dan (the Man)]

Two releases today that have me shaking my head because of their covers:

First, there's this one:



and then that one:

[bk]

Back from LACC and a very productive two-and-a-half hour rehearsal, in which I barrelled through a good deal of the first act and blocked three musical numbers. By the end of Thursday, I hope to be close to finishing the first act.  Then I'll try to barrel through act two next Tuesday and Thursday, which will leave us a week to hone stuff as much as possible and to start having run-throughs.  Hopefully, I can at least get everything to flow properly.  The kids are all picking everything up very fast.

[Ron Pulliam]

DR Ron - I have cancelled my trip to San Francisco.  There are many unpleasant things that have been happening at work and I decided to take the cats to the lake for 4 or 5 days around memorial day rather than spend 4-5 days in a hotel meeting room listening to lectures about things I already know...even if it is in San Francisco

Doh!  Gizzafratz und ratzendatz!



Oh, well.  Another time.

I'll live.

Enjoy the lake...I'm sure the tranquillity and companionship will be very soothing.

[Ron Pulliam]

My library visit is now at an end.  See you all tomorrow.

See ya...'round the stacks!




(couldn't resist).

[Rodzinski]

As for Wikipedia's accuracy, read this linked article.

Thanks for that, Dan. Fascinating and scary. Guess people better not toss out their Funk & Wagnalls just yet.

[Ginny]

Thanks for that, Dan. Fascinating and scary. Guess people better not toss out their Funk & Wagnalls just yet.

DS Rob and I were just discussing Wikipedia's accuracy last night.  In my information-waitressing, I use their entries just as sources of clues for where I might find credible information.

[Matt H.]

Got many things watched and cleared off the DVR. First up was last night's OLD CHRISTINE. I enjoyed the show, and the brother character is growing on me. He was very funny last night. Wanda Sykes fits in this show as a supporting player much better than when she was the lead of her own series. Not a skilled enough comic actress to carry the burden of a series, but to pop in, deliver a few jokes, and exit, she's perfect.

[Matt H.]

CSI: MIAMI had a story based on the Paris Hilton/Jessica Simpson types of celebrities famous for being famous. Good episode setting up the two part season finale.

[Matt H.]

THE SOPRANOS was a rather humdrum episode, I thought. A couple of plot points puttering along at a snail's pace, but a lot of other stuff of not much interest (to me anyway).

[Matt H.]

Then I watched MADAME X that I had recorded off TCM over the weekend. Hadn't seen it all the way through in a long time. I noticed the credits were windowboxed, but the rest of the film was shown full frame.

I know he made some famous movies, but how did Keir Dullea not become a bigger star? He had the looks, the talent. I guess Robert Redford moved in and got what might have been his career.

[TCB]

And the word of the day is: DELIVERANCE!

<<squeal>>

[TCB]

Perhaps TCB will regale us with tales of his days as cabin boy on the Tea clipper ships.

But you warned me never to repeat those stories.

[Ginny]

Speaking of information waitressing, I have 4 solid hours of it tonight - alternating between the reference desk and the phone center.

Bye for now.

[Jrand73]

DR MATTH - that is one of my favorite Lana Turner performances (Pauline Kael notwithstanding)....  And of course she looks fantastic....

There is the story (might be publicity of course) that once Lana was made up as the OLDER Holly, that all the mirrors be covered so that she wouldn't catch sight of herself.

Constance Bennett was the scary looking one, though.  And dead between filming and release.  She had gone to Switzerland for a long put off face lift....she was afraid of the surgery....but went through with it once she was cast in MADAME X...  Vanity.....

[Jrand73]

Nice blog, DR GINNY......

[Tomovoz]

I guess I should have added Mississippi Cruise, Circle line NY cruise, Crossing the English channel, cruise on Lake Lucern , Cruises on whatever the lake is in Queenstown Hobbitland, a cruise up the Rhine and cruises on the Moldau, and on the Thames.

The crews I left to Jose.

And the Mark Twain at Disneyland!!

[vixmom]

Ooo, I'm so excited - I now have a blog:

Nonprofit Notes

Very VERY cool!!!

[MBarnum]

I just had the most amazing lunch with Rodzinski.  I met him at his office and we went to Little India in Queens for an Indian buffet lunch.  I made three trips to ensure we got our money's worth of course.

Well, I'll be darned...that is where I had lunch with Rodzinski! Did you stop and buy any $5 Bollywood DVDs?

[vixmom]

DR Tomovoz... when are you due to hit NYC?

[vixmom]

I cannot remember if I congratulated TPunk on her momentous achievement and being too  lazy to try and backtrack...



[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MOMENTOUS GRADUATION ACHIEVEMENT DEAR READER TPUNK WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/move] [/color]

[vixmom]

Mother/Daughter Girl Scout Dinner starts in 30 minutes!! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!