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BEATING A HASTY RETREAT
« on: December 13, 2003, 12:02:55 AM »
You've read the notes, you know the quotes, the anecdotes, and so it is time to post until the cows come home - I'll come home, Kathleen, and then I hope to have loads of lovely postings to peruse.

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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2003, 12:05:00 AM »
Am I the first post?  Ah ha, at last!
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2003, 12:07:50 AM »
And my last post was wasted and now not exactly relevant. Good morning all. Have a wonderful Saturday. I'm off to appreciate Colin's return to cooking duties.
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"I'm sixty-three and I guess that puts me with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-three".
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2003, 12:11:52 AM »
I confess that I did that previous post before I read Today's Column, but I am so rarely up at this time, so I had to seize the moment.

Favorite Legrand songs were already mentioned by BK, but they are The Summer Knows and Windmills of My Mind.
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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2003, 12:12:55 AM »
Oh TCB, I forgot to mention...you looked absolutely smashing in those pretty earrings...they were so YOU
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2003, 12:16:09 AM »
I am having Patty Duke mania.  Tomorrow I shall be searching for more Patty vinyl.
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2003, 12:17:09 AM »
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Thanks for the Oliver review, Ann.  Something she didn't mention in her review, but that I'll mention myself... apparently seeing TCB in person is like looking at a future vision of my very own self...  You sure you don't have stories from your time in Ellensburg you're not telling, Tom?
If you think I am going to start paying child support for you now, Jed, you are sadly mistaken.

Can't blame a guy for trying. :D
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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2003, 12:19:12 AM »
Ooh, a late-night posting frenzy.  That'll be a surprise when those lazy morning people finally wend their way here.
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2003, 12:21:08 AM »
Quote from: Jed on December 13, 2003, 12:17:09 AM
TCB said:If you think I am going to start paying child support for you now, Jed, you are sadly mistaken.Can't blame a guy for trying. :D

But I suppose I can let you call me Dad.
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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2003, 12:22:14 AM »
Quote from: Ann on December 13, 2003, 12:12:55 AM
Oh TCB, I forgot to mention...you looked absolutely smashing in those pretty earrings...they were so YOU

Why thank you, Ann.  Actually, they were mine.
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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2003, 12:24:46 AM »
Another chance to mention "Pieces Of Dreams". I do love the Picasso Suite/Summer of 42 music too
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2003, 12:26:11 AM »
Wow, what a night!  I get a new Dad, and he has lovely earrings!  Just add to the things I love about HHW!
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« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2003, 12:26:52 AM »
Let's see... The Promise is by David Shire, It Might Be You is by Dave Grusin.  Hahahahahahahahaha - we are havin' a postin' frenzy, and all those sleepyheads will wake up to a plethora of posts and we will laugh and laugh and laugh.
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2003, 12:28:25 AM »
Isn't the "modify" button useful. You read too quickly BK. I checked them out myself!
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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2003, 12:28:33 AM »
Legrand - First one that comes to mind is always "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2003, 12:31:32 AM »
Quote from: Jed on December 13, 2003, 12:28:33 AM
Legrand - First one that comes to mind is always "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"

I second that vote, and add "Between Yesterday And Tomorrow"  one of my all time favorite Legrand songs
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2003, 12:31:38 AM »
Yesterday, Jose wrote:

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DR George - Is the DVD of Sophisticated Ladies the same production that was on PBS at one point - and, I think, available on VHS?

I wrote an answer but got cut off.  Anyway, Jose, I would assume that it's the exact same show, just released in Brazil.  You can choose to have the menu and subtitles in Portuguese, English or Spanish but the audio track of the show is only in English.  I've watched it up to the intermission.  So far so good!
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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2003, 12:33:06 AM »
A late-night posting frenzy.  Oh, how we shall laugh and laugh and laugh.

Well, Tom from Oz, you modified and now no one will know what the HELL I was going on about.  Mr. Shire's song from The Promise is stunning - I recorded it with Maureen McGovern on the Bay Cities Shire album - gorgeous.
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2003, 12:34:20 AM »
We shall laugh and laugh and those sleepyheads will not have gotten to partake of the late-night posting frenzy.  
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2003, 12:35:43 AM »
And I shall laugh and laugh because this is my 900th post.  In honor of it, I shall play Miss Patty Duke singing I'll Plant My Own Tree, followed by Miss Judy Garland singing I'll Plant My Own Tree, followed by actually planting my own tree.
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2003, 12:36:44 AM »
What am I, doing a monologue?  What happened to the posting frenzy?  What happened to Baby Jane.  Did you know that I will be breakfasting at Du-Par's with our very own MusicGuy?
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2003, 12:38:34 AM »
I just realized I'm depressingly far away from any post # landmark...oh well.  I'm still a firm believer in quality above quantity

(Wasn't that a wonderful sentiment for a vanity post? :))
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2003, 12:41:18 AM »
Just to keep us sensible BK: I first heard "I'll Never Say Goodbye"(The promise) on a Judy Collins album  along with the theme from "Ice Castles". Mr Shire's melody is indeed beautiful even if we are off topic.
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2003, 12:42:52 AM »
I love Ice Castles, especially the original by Melissa Manchester.  That Mr. Hamlisch sure can write a melody sometimes.

Wouldn't it be funny if all those lazy sleepyheads woke up to 200 posts?
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2003, 12:44:15 AM »
Of course, the most amazing thing is the nine count them nine guests who are watching us having a late-night posting frenzy without even taking part.  C'mon, guests, join the fray.  
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« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2003, 12:45:49 AM »
I am now about to watch Pauline Collins in "Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War".  Good night all from the sundried country of OZ.
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« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2003, 12:49:28 AM »
OK I have not gone yet. What a great year was 1979 for Oscar nominated songs (I know that was yesterday's topic). "Ice Castles", "The Promise",  PLUS "The Rainbow Connection", Mancini's "It's Easy To Say" and the eventual winner from Norma Rae
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« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2003, 12:53:16 AM »
I'd have to say that 1979 was just a great year all the way around. :D
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« Reply #28 on: December 13, 2003, 12:53:37 AM »
Norma Rae - also by David Shire.  At the peak of his game, and that is some peak.

We are havin' a late-night postin' frenzy.  Ann, for God's sake, post.
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« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2003, 12:56:18 AM »
Quote from: Ann on December 13, 2003, 12:38:34 AM
I just realized I'm depressingly far away from any post # landmark...oh well.  I'm still a firm believer in quality above quantity

(Wasn't that a wonderful sentiment for a vanity post? :))

Yeah, Ann, a great justification for why you are so far away from another landmark.  Have you considered politics?
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