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S. Woody White

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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2006, 07:02:40 AM »
Quote from: bk on October 07, 2006, 01:18:54 AM
And the word of the day is: POLTROON!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry poltroon
And the string section in the band quivered, too.
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« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2006, 07:03:43 AM »
A poltroonish page two dance:

[size=20]SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!!![/size]
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« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2006, 07:09:55 AM »
That POLTROON magazine editor Helen Gurley Beige was known to LOOT PORN videos for photo layout ideas rather than come up with her own.
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2006, 07:17:30 AM »
Since you mentioned Julius (Groucho) Marx, I thought I'd remind BK and all DRs that this coming Thursday (10/12 - the real Columbus Day before the government decided to make most holidays part of long weekends) TCM is televising Dick Cavett interviews Groucho as part of their series of classic Cavett interviews (also out on DVD).  It's at 8 & repeated at 11 Eastern, but check for your local time.
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #34 on: October 07, 2006, 07:59:43 AM »
I'm up, I'm up.  Tired, but up.  Up, but tired.  How can it be October already?
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« Reply #35 on: October 07, 2006, 08:02:03 AM »
Well, BK, you stole one of my favourite Groucho lines in your notes.  I'm also fond of:  "Do I understand this?  Why a four-year-old child could understand this.  Run out and get me a four-year-old child, I can't make head nor tale of this!"  "I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas, how he got in my pyjamas, I'll never know."
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #36 on: October 07, 2006, 08:28:54 AM »
Good morning!

Very typical fall day with cool temps, overcast skies, and a BIG smile on my face. I love this time of year.
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« Reply #37 on: October 07, 2006, 08:31:41 AM »
I adore the MArx Brothers so much that my brain reels trying to choose anything to quote since they're always SO much better coming from the men themselves.

Groucho: Now here is the sanity clause . . . .

Chico: (ha-ha-ha) There ain't no sanity clause.
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« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2006, 08:33:16 AM »
Reading these other lines makes me want to put in one of their films today, and I may do that at lunchtime. But choosing which one, that's a REAL problem.

HORSE FEATHERS has always been my favorite, but I may choose one of the later MGM ones today. Perhaps THE BIG STORE since I don't think I ever got around to watching it once I got the MGM/Marx set.
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« Reply #39 on: October 07, 2006, 08:34:59 AM »
Chico: You a pretty girl.  You got "it."
(girl smiles)
Chico: And you can keep it.
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« Reply #40 on: October 07, 2006, 08:35:17 AM »
Harpo: (Honk, honk)
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #41 on: October 07, 2006, 08:35:28 AM »
I have WALK THE LINE on the DVR, ut I see that HBO-HD is broadcasting it again tonight at 7, so I may just watch it then and erase it off the DVR.
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« Reply #42 on: October 07, 2006, 08:58:06 AM »
Off to get lunch started.

WBBL.
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #43 on: October 07, 2006, 09:24:07 AM »
The amazon listings for the book have been fixed, so if anyone was waiting to get the softcover version, it's now available.
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« Reply #44 on: October 07, 2006, 09:24:39 AM »
And I should think that some dear readers' copies should be arriving today or, at the very least, Monday.
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« Reply #45 on: October 07, 2006, 09:25:12 AM »
I shall now be on my way to do some Xeroxing (in preparation for Monday's reading) and then I shall return a bit later.
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #46 on: October 07, 2006, 09:31:23 AM »
Der Brucer is getting caught up on his DVR viewing.

Afterwards, he'll be going for a fitting for his avatar costume.  He's gained a few pounds since he wore it last (it's an old photo) and he wants to be presentable when he next goes out in public.
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« Reply #47 on: October 07, 2006, 09:31:49 AM »
Good morning, all!  I slept quite late, and there's some godawful event - maybe a streetfair? - happening on Amterdam Avenue with a lot of noisy sound systems, speaking in Spanish, and not too long ago a lady singing "The Star Spangled Banner" in, yep!, Spanish.  This can't be Columbus Day since that's an Italian-themed event.  Anyway, who can sleep during all that racket in Spanish, Italian, English, or any other language?

Last night I watched the greatest documentary, BALLETS RUSSES:  a history, with wonderful interviews with surviving dancers of the two feuding Ballets Russes companies founded in the early 1930s as one company, and footage from performances between 1933 and the late 1950s when both fnally fell apart.    I kept thinking of "Who's That Woman?" the great moment in FOLLIES when the old and new worlds collide as I watched clips of 13year-old Irina Baranova dancing in "The Good-Humored Ladies" followed by her interview in 2000, or 90 year-old Frederic Franklin dancing in "Gaite Parisienne" in the 1940s and teaching a class in 2000.  Franklin is the host of the documentary, and his recall is amazing; he should do a bio - he's now around 94 - before it's all lost.  He talks about the commissioning of RODEO and Agnes de Mille, Marc Platt still looks great, and there are clips from one of his films as well as footage of him in several ballets.  Dame Alicia Markova looks wonderful, and they caught her just before she died since several of the interviewees have passed on before the film's completion.  It's quite a wonderful fim, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

I have a bit of brain surgery today and a paying job as well, so I must get to work.
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #48 on: October 07, 2006, 09:32:57 AM »
Quote from: Matt H. on October 07, 2006, 08:31:41 AM
I adore the MArx Brothers so much that my brain reels trying to choose anything to quote since they're always SO much better coming from the men themselves.

Groucho: Now here is the sanity clause . . . .

Chico: (ha-ha-ha) There ain't no sanity clause.

Ah, that one is my favorite also!
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #49 on: October 07, 2006, 09:34:24 AM »
DR MBarnum, 83 year-old George Zoritch, now living in Tucson, had several of the ballerinas a-twitter over how hot he was, and since I'll pander myself to lead anyone to the arts, I thought I would post a few of his photos - he dances in a few films as well - to induce you to watch the DVD.
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« Reply #50 on: October 07, 2006, 09:35:00 AM »
Another.
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« Reply #51 on: October 07, 2006, 09:35:48 AM »
The last!
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« Reply #52 on: October 07, 2006, 09:36:27 AM »
My nephews kids, Taylor and Ben, are staying with Grandma (my sister) this weekend...she is bringing them over so that they can visit with Bosco and Freddy, and the we will go to the carousel at the park downtown.
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Re:HELLO, I MUST BE GOING
« Reply #53 on: October 07, 2006, 09:38:43 AM »
DR Elmore, you will be pleased to know that I added it to my Netflix queue even before you posted the photos!
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« Reply #54 on: October 07, 2006, 09:46:11 AM »
JMK-I’m a day late, however.......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

I don’t think I have ever been in your family room. ;D
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« Reply #55 on: October 07, 2006, 09:49:31 AM »
Jane - Hi! We just ate at Ollies. We were at the same table the group sat at last year and I was thinking of you!
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« Reply #56 on: October 07, 2006, 10:01:56 AM »
Quote from: MBarnum on October 07, 2006, 09:38:43 AM
DR Elmore, you will be pleased to know that I added it to my Netflix queue even before you posted the photos!

Will Wonders Never Cease??????


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« Reply #57 on: October 07, 2006, 10:04:38 AM »
Oh! The TOD.

It's Groucho to the late great Margaret Dumont, but I can hear myself saying it to our DRs Jose and MBarnum:

"We're fighting for your honor, which is more than you ever did."
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« Reply #58 on: October 07, 2006, 10:15:37 AM »
A final frenzy:  DRs Cillaliz, jhvw, and I have a 6:30 dinner date this evening at La Cocina, 85th Street @ Broadway.  If any DRs would like to join us, let me know this afternoon.
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« Reply #59 on: October 07, 2006, 10:24:18 AM »
Searching for those photos of George Zoritch, I learned he had written a memoir.  It's OP and the cheapest used copy is $1600!  I guess I'll try the NYPL Dance Collection.

Raven Wilkinson, the first black dancer in the Ballets Russes, is interviewed and her story of the company's clashes with the KKK in the South over her dancing, with some frightening footage of a lot of asses in white robes, is quite tragic.  There are two Native American ballerinas interviewed, including the beautiful Maria Tallchief.  I'm debating watching this again today.
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