Topic: WHAT ELSE CAN I TELL YOU? (Read 23451 times)

bk · « **on:** January 02, 2004, 12:01:38 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you've digested the notes, you've understood the notes, you've mulled the notes, and now it is time to post until the cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:04:05 AM »

So many late-nighters - we LOVE that.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:09:08 AM »

The first shall be last, and the last shall be first...

Well, sort of...

OH, Jason - You said you don't do self-portraits.... Well, I have a pic of you I could post!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:09:42 AM »

Bruce, I'm loving Adryan Russ' CD. Good song choices, good singers, good arrangements. I'll be listening to it at work tomorrow, too!

Adding to a topic from Thursday (very late), the only thing I really didn't like about "AI: Artificial Intelligence" was the idea for the company in the first place. They're making children who never age and who can never NOT love their "parents" who WILL age. If the parents know that they will have to give up their unaging children because THEY (the parents) will be too old to take care of them, wouldn't they wonder what is going to happen to these "children" and would they knowingly put their child through that situation? Would they really get one in the first place? That's what kept going through my mind during the first part of the movie and what I most thought about after it was over. $:-\$

Ann · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:10:54 AM »

Good evening all.
I just saw Cold Mountain with Tiana's mother and brother. She preferred to stay home and spend two and a half hours on the phone with her boyfriend. Ah young love...
Cold Mountain...better than I expected, I must say. Rene Zellweger (I know I butchered the spelling) did a marvelous job, IMHO. Nicole was good, as usual, and Jude Law, who I haven't really seen in anything, was if nothing else, eye candy throughout the film. Scenery was gorgeous, filmed in the Blue Mountains, I felt a serious urge to sing John Denver on the way home.

Jed · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:11:31 AM »

Haha! I learned from Jose and copied my post in case I got locked out of the old notes... which I did...

Andrea - CYGOPP?!?!? I thought he was gone! Damn it... more competition!

Maya, forgive my flirting with Andrea, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
Laura II, forgive my flirting with Maya, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
Emily, forgive my flirting with Laura II, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
LC, forgive my flirting with Emily, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
Andrea, forgive my flirting with LC...

Jason · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:13:18 AM »

Top Ten Theatre Performances (in no particular order):

1. Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ
2. Kristi Chenoweth in WICKED
3. Idina Menzel in WICKED
4. Donna Murphy in WONDERFUL TOWN
5. Jefferson Mays in I AM MY OWN WIFE
6. John Dossett in GYPSY
7. Tammy Blanchard in GYPSY
8. Michele Pawk in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
9. Max von Essen in DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
10. Euan Morton in TABOO (he was the best part of the whole show)

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:15:11 AM »

Hey, didn't I say Goodnight? Well, I also said I'd stop eating the pistachios too, but...

I got a nice e-mail from the stage manager from my new show this morning. It kind of confused me when I came across it in my e-mailbox. The subject was: The Good News. Sounded a little chain-lettery to me... Well, the good news was/is that I have no rehearsal this weekend! They'll only be working on script stuff while the playwright is still in town. So, I can actually sleep in tomorrow, surf, shop, go to a movie, etc... And I can finish my run in the land of Camelot this weekend "uninterrupted". YEAH!

And on that note - middle C, I think it was - Goodnight... Again!

Ann · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:15:55 AM »

Quote from: Jed on January 02, 2004, 12:11:31 AM

Haha! I learned from Jose and copied my post in case I got locked out of the old notes... which I did...

Andrea - CYGOPP?!?!? I thought he was gone! Damn it... more competition!

Maya, forgive my flirting with Andrea, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
Laura II, forgive my flirting with Maya, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
Emily, forgive my flirting with Laura II, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
LC, forgive my flirting with Emily, you know you're the only HHW gal for me.
Andrea, forgive my flirting with LC...

Hey! What am I, chopped liver??

bk · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:18:09 AM »

HAPPY NEW YEAR ELEVEN GUESTS!

You are most certainly not chopped liver and anyone who says you are will have ME to contend with.

Jed · « **Reply #10 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:18:42 AM »

Quote from: Ann on January 02, 2004, 12:15:55 AM

Hey! What am I, chopped liver??

You just know me too well for me to have any chance.

Jason · « **Reply #11 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:22:24 AM »

Top Ten Film Performances of the Year (this might be a little harder for me...)

1. Julianne Moore in FAR FROM HEAVEN
2. Billy Crudup in BIG FISH
3. Cate Blanchet (sp?) in VERONICA GUERIN
4. Catherine O'Hara in A MIGHTY WIND
5. Eugene Levy in A MIGHTY WIND
6. Patrick Wilson in ANGELS IN AMERICA
7. Paul Bettany in MASTER AND COMMANDER
8. Bill Murray in LOST IN TRANSLATION
9. Scarlett Johansen in LOST IN TRANSLATION
10. Catherine Zeta-Jones in CHICAGO (that seems so long ago! Was that really 2003??)

Ann · « **Reply #12 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:22:47 AM »

Quote from: Jed on January 02, 2004, 12:18:42 AM

You just know me too well for me to have any chance.

Can't argue with that

George · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:23:18 AM »

Goodnight Everyone!

Ann · « **Reply #14 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:24:41 AM »

btw, is anyone noticing strange orange underline marks that turn into links on certain words, like "work"
or is it just this warped computer I'm using?

Jed · « **Reply #15 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:27:29 AM »

I think that must be a warped computer thing, Ann. Or else you've had too much to drink.

Ann · « **Reply #16 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:34:28 AM »

I thought so...damn this machine.

Ann · « **Reply #17 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:36:19 AM »

But glad I'm the only DR who has to suffer through it...I can't wait 'till I'm back using my trusty mac

Ann · « **Reply #18 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:43:11 AM »

Everyone seems to be going to bed...so I guess I'll do the same. Goodnight all

Tomovoz · « **Reply #19 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:47:03 AM »

I arrive and everyone goes to bed. What sort of party is this? good night all.

Jed · « **Reply #20 on:** January 02, 2004, 12:53:01 AM »

I've hardly seen any 2003 movies, so I can't really do much of a list there.

Theatre-wise, I will make my list branch out to include some excellent regional and local theatre performances I saw this year, in addition to the 3 shows I saw in NYC.

Spencer Kayden, James Barbour (in for Jeff McCarthy), and John Cullum in URINETOWN
Harvey Fierstein and Kerry Butler in HAIRSPRAY
John Dossett and, yes, Bernadette Peters in GYPSY
Victoria Clark and Kelli O'Hara in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (Intiman Theatre, Seattle)
David Brameld as Norman in ON GOLDEN POND (Leavenworth Summer Theater)
Shanna Palmer as Annie in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Leavenworth Summer Theater)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2004, 02:47:38 AM »

Well, I will have to do some thinking on my "performance" picks. I will just second all of DRJASON's choices for NY stage since I didn't see anything "on the street" last year.

Wonderful pictures, DRJ! Don't stop!

Michael · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2004, 04:11:13 AM »

Best Performances Theater or Film

Harvey Fierstein, Melissa Jane Winokur, Kerry Butler in Hairspray

Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Ben Shenkman, Justin Kirk, Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, Mary Louise Parker in Angels in America

Least Enjoyable Cast: The Allergist's Wife (Coconut Grove Playhouse) It made me wonder what was the big whoop about the play.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 02, 2004, 04:35:48 AM »

Hmmmmmm...coming up Tuesday is the DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE DVD - I think it has both the Fredric March and Spencer Tracy versions on it.

I think MR BK said he had this disk already, but I don't remember a comment on it - or on another disk coming out next week KISS THEM FOR ME.

I would like to know your opinion of the movies - not the disks themselves!

I have preordered WHERE THE BOYS ARE - so that should be in mailbox on Monday or Tuesday.

I didn't realize until the year end "wrap ups" that we lost Suzy Parker last year. In fact I don't remember her being included in the TCM montage. What a beautiful woman. I liked her in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING especially! Her sister Dorian Leigh was the Revlon Fire and Ice model who wrote a terrific autobiography entitled with tongue in cheek "The Girl Who Had Everything."

This is Suzy:

Jrand73 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 02, 2004, 04:37:03 AM »

This is Dorian...back when models were women and not skinny skinny gurls!

Michael · « **Reply #25 on:** January 02, 2004, 04:43:39 AM »

Mark Bakalor has a brand new website up and running! It deals with the Oscar race this year. It is faboo!!!! Just took a quick run at it while gettingready to leave for work.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #26 on:** January 02, 2004, 05:28:15 AM »

We had a couple of first-rate touring productions come our way, notably Chicago (Gregory Harrison) and Aida (which was way more entertaining than I had expected). And in New York I saw Boy From Oz and Take Me Out, both highlights. Regarding the latter, I've been surprised by all the attention (including last Sunday's NY Times) given Tony-winner Denis O'Hare (the one who did not take his clothes off). I thought the cast, including O'Hare, was uniformly strong, and don't really get why he was the one who was singled out. As for Boy From Oz, I couldn't separate Hugh Jackman's phenomenal performance from the show. I also thought Beth Fowler gave a moving performance, and would like to see her remembered at Tony-nominations time.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 02, 2004, 05:57:53 AM »

D-I-T I forgot that I also saw a terrific performance of AIDA last year. Thanks for reminding me. And I too was suprised at how much I liked the show! Not at all what I expected - a Lion King-Beauty and the Beast-Disney type show. It's kind of a different animal.

AND I keep forgetting - I am anxious to see the KRITZER TIME cover art. I like BK and KL covers - but I am partial to the BK cover because I love the double feature on the marquee: AUTUMN LEAVES and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH....

Jed · « **Reply #28 on:** January 02, 2004, 06:07:50 AM »

Well, fellow dear readers, I can hardly believe it, yet I must believe it, for it is true. Here it is, 6am Pacific Standard Time, and I am awake. This would be most unseemly had I just now awakened, but the fact is I have not gone to bed at all. Why am I still awake? Because I've allowed my sleep schedule to get completely funky, that's why. So, I'll attempt to just keep myself awake through today and get back to a more normal sleep schedule tomorrow night.

The one real downside to being awake at such an hour... nothing but freakin' infomercials on TV! I had been watching a couple Twilight Zone episodes, but now those are over and cable is a paid programming wasteland. Ah well, off to the morning news.

Jed · « **Reply #29 on:** January 02, 2004, 06:12:25 AM »

Oh my... Heard on the 11:00 news last night that there was a missing skier in the Cascades, but just now on the morning news did they have a name. Turns out it's a guy I went to high school with (he was a year ahead of me). Don't know him all that well, just had a class or two with him. Hope there's a happier update later in the day.

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