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Re:IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #30 on: December 15, 2006, 07:35:04 AM »
Good morning!

It rained again during the night, and was very cloudy when I got up, but the clouds are clearing now, and we have another day of 70 degree temperatures ahead of us. Amazing!
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« Reply #31 on: December 15, 2006, 07:37:27 AM »
Page Two Cogsworth Dance!!!


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« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2006, 07:40:19 AM »
TOD -

Books -
I finally finished The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan.  Fantastic read, not in the sense that I couldn't put it down, but more in the sense that I had to put it down to absorb what I had read, and then find my place again.

Next on the list - Heat, by Bill Buford.  Yep, more food writing.  This one promises to be a comedy.

DVDs -
My run through the Doctor Who DVDs has taken an interesting turn.  Instead of running through them in a chronological order, I'm going through the Doctors somewhat backwards.  I've finished The Mark of the Rani and The Two Doctors (Colin Baker era), and am now going chapter by chapter through The Curse of Fenric (Sylvester McCoy).  After that, I'll probably hit the Tom Baker stories I have in my stack.

But The Devil Wears Prada is also waiting.  We weren't going to get this, der B and I (he opted instead to pick up the four-disc set of Ben Hur), but we had it on sale for three dollars off at the store (yes, the supermarket also sells DVDs, go figure), and then there was a 25% discount for employees, so I just couldn't resist.  Besides, Meryl Streep in stilettoes simply has to be deadly!
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« Reply #33 on: December 15, 2006, 07:40:37 AM »
Friday Media Check:

CD - Jim Brickman: PEACE

DVD - BONES - Season 1, disc 4
          TALLADEGA NIGHTS
          PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
          A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Reginald Owen)

DVR - last Thursday's MY NAME IS EARL
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« Reply #34 on: December 15, 2006, 07:41:43 AM »
Cogsworth isn't dancing!  He's being assalted!
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« Reply #35 on: December 15, 2006, 07:42:42 AM »
New episodes tonight of JUSTICE, THE GHOST WHISPERER, and others.

But a quick glance at next week's TV GUIDE shows mostly reruns except for game shows and some reality series like SUPERNANNY.
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« Reply #36 on: December 15, 2006, 07:51:51 AM »
New episode of Doctor Who on Sci Fi.   :D
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« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2006, 07:58:33 AM »
Heading down now to get cleaned up for my usual Friday errands.

WBBL.
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« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2006, 08:06:33 AM »
Media Check:

CD: Yuzo Kayama - WHITE CHRISTMAS

DVD: The Internationale
         The Last Sunset

DVR: Swing Time
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« Reply #39 on: December 15, 2006, 09:04:30 AM »
I'm up, I'm up.  Looks like it will be a most pleasant day.  I'll ungroggify, then joggify, then pick up my Christmas cards and get them in Ye Olde Maile.
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« Reply #40 on: December 15, 2006, 09:04:55 AM »
So, might I just ask where in tarnation IS everyone?
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« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2006, 09:05:18 AM »
We need us some denizens.
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« Reply #42 on: December 15, 2006, 09:09:26 AM »
The denizens are out in Africa somewhere (a Meryl streep reference)
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« Reply #43 on: December 15, 2006, 09:14:25 AM »
Hmm..the site is interacting wonkily with Safari today.
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« Reply #44 on: December 15, 2006, 09:16:50 AM »
Quote from: FJL on December 15, 2006, 09:14:25 AM
Hmm..the site is interacting wonkily with Safari today.

I noticed the same thing earlier this morning, before I left for work.
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« Reply #45 on: December 15, 2006, 09:19:54 AM »
DR Edisaurus just helped me with some Christmas shopping, but, "Shhh," don't tell DH Richard  ;)
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« Reply #46 on: December 15, 2006, 09:20:08 AM »
Bruce, i mentioned this elsewhere, but just in case you didn't see it:  The L.A. times has clearly put BRAIN FROM PLANET X on its critic's RECOMMENDED list in today's listings.  
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« Reply #47 on: December 15, 2006, 09:28:09 AM »
That's great - maybe it will result in some customers - I guess this time of year isn't the best time to put on a brand new musical - there are LA theatergoers who post on various boards and brag how they see every musical in LA - but what they really mean is every musical that stars Kevin Earley and/or James Barbour.  They don't go to any others, apparently.  

I'm now told we're very light, audience-wise, for Saturday night, which I find appalling, annoying, and awful.  
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« Reply #48 on: December 15, 2006, 09:38:21 AM »
Welcome back, DR EDISAURUS, and thanks for the report!

Some people don't make Weekend plans until they read the PAPER on Friday....and then they say: "Hey, let's go see BRAIN on Saturday night...."

I would bet the box office phone is ringing and ringing and ringing...
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Re:IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS
« Reply #49 on: December 15, 2006, 09:41:42 AM »
Re: the closer

Quote from: Matt H. on December 15, 2006, 07:34:14 AM
No, That two hour episode was actually the season two finale. The new season doesn't start up until the summer of 2007.

But was this season two finale new for you? Or had you already seen it?

And is it the same finale that i saw part one of last week (where brenda works for the CIA).

Thanks.
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« Reply #50 on: December 15, 2006, 09:43:12 AM »
Sell-out vibes for the Brain this weekend!
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« Reply #51 on: December 15, 2006, 09:54:29 AM »
I hope that's true.  I think the matinee will be good, because we have a group of sixty high school students coming in.
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« Reply #52 on: December 15, 2006, 09:56:59 AM »
If Saturday's audience is light that would be a shame.

I wish to heck I could see the show a few more times...I am having post-play depression of some sort...I can't explain it but the show just made me so happy that I want to keep seeing it like it is some sort of stagebound upper!

And I had no doubt that L.A. Times would like it...I don't know how they could not have. Just the dance numbers alone were worth the price of admission.
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« Reply #53 on: December 15, 2006, 09:57:36 AM »
I am gushing again. But when I really like something I am very vocal about it.
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« Reply #54 on: December 15, 2006, 10:09:31 AM »
I'd bet that for the future life of the show (which is what we should be talkin' about), the quotes you've gotten will be more important in the long run than how full the audience was on this particular Saturday night.  

Having said that, though, I wish you fabulous appreciative crowds for the tapings.
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« Reply #55 on: December 15, 2006, 10:32:04 AM »
I guess what shocks me is the complete lack of support from so many people I know here in LA.  It's really mind-boggling.  I sent out three e-mail blasts and not one person on them has come to the show.  It's really irksome and I do hope that when these people e-mail me to come and be supportive of them that they don't expect and/or hope I'll be there, because I'll be sitting on my couch like so much fish, twiddling my thumbs.
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« Reply #56 on: December 15, 2006, 10:32:28 AM »
Quote from: bk on December 15, 2006, 09:04:55 AM
So, might I just ask where in tarnation IS everyone?

Some of us were busy finishing our Christmas cards...
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« Reply #57 on: December 15, 2006, 10:40:54 AM »
Quote from: bk on December 15, 2006, 10:32:04 AM
I guess what shocks me is the complete lack of support from so many people I know here in LA.  It's really mind-boggling.  I sent out three e-mail blasts and not one person on them has come to the show.  It's really irksome and I do hope that when these people e-mail me to come and be supportive of them that they don't expect and/or hope I'll be there, because I'll be sitting on my couch like so much fish, twiddling my thumbs.

MR BK - it may be a case of "what have you done FOR ME lately?"....but my guess is that when they ask for your support, you will be in the front row.  ;D

Just remember who didn't come to the show - when you are CASTING!
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« Reply #58 on: December 15, 2006, 10:41:14 AM »
Quote from: Jeanne on December 15, 2006, 10:32:28 AM
Some of us were busy finishing our Christmas cards...

Damn!  I knew I had forgotten something this year.  :o
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« Reply #59 on: December 15, 2006, 10:45:12 AM »


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