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Will we never get to page four?

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So it is written, so it shall be done - page four!

[DearReaderLaura]

I think my house needs painting.

Me too. Unfortunately, I did it myself.

[DERBRUCER]

Mr. Riedel, from the New York Post, has an informative column today about a group of hedge fund managers who want to be Broadway producers (did they see The Producers too many times?) and the tsuris it has caused the production team and the talent involved.

Cat

All I can say is "Beyonce???"

Is Karl Rove trying Broadway?

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

And, some days it would get so hot outside, that they would have to be unseemly and actually cast off part of their painting costumes.....

Maybe you should do a Calendar

SUNSHINE STUDS

der Brucer

[DearReaderLaura]

The radio station is playing "Fish heads, fish heads..."

[Ron Pulliam]

Last Night's "Idol":

It always amazes me at the snits the judges can get into when a poorly selected "theme" for the week results in blah song choices and performances.

Not one person among the 8 competitors is Latin, has any Latin singing experience.  

To my knowledge, few major recording artists, outside of Latin ones, do Latin songs.

So....GET A CLUE!

Uniformly dull night.  NO ONE impressed me.  But then, there wasn't any one performance that was more dreadful than the rest.

Anyone COULD go tonight....but I suspect it will be Haley or Phil.

[Ron Pulliam]

I am really looking forward to tonight's new episodes of LOST and MEDIUM.

Me, too!

[Ron Pulliam]

I can't believe tonight's IDOL is 1 hour. Yuck. I hate when they stretch these things.  I'll probably just tape it and ff through the boring parts. Or maybe just watch the last half.

ME, TOO!

[DERBRUCER]

I would have finished yesterday, but whilst cutting out a piece of drywall in a "hollow" section of wall, directly between 2 vertical studs (OK TCB, Tom Oz, derBrucer, et.al. it's all your's), I encountered a sneaky diagonal brace running across the hole at a 45 degree angle.  So this morning a friend is stopping by with the needed type of power saw to remove this offending bit of wood.  Oh yes, I am offended at this time!

Maybe the brace is there for a reason?

Removing braces sometimes yields interesting results.

Removing yours would answer the nagging question:

Jockeys or Boxers?

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Posing, just as they should, near their Greek columns...

 

And dontcha just love Greek columns

der Brucer

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Back from Staples.  Guess what?  The velo-bind machine has been fixed since Monday - no prob at all.  The guy last night lied and just couldn't be bothered to do the job (he basically said he was backed up in a major way).  I'll have my copies by two.

[singdaw]

And dontcha just love Greek columns

Two Grecian Urns...

[Ron Pulliam]

Last night's "House":

Very disappointing story line....for me.  The buildup was good...but the denouement just sucked.

[DERBRUCER]

Last Night's "Idol":
...
Uniformly dull night.  NO ONE impressed me.  But then, there wasn't any one performance that was more dreadful than the rest.

There's just nothing like a totally BORING reality show!

Maybe it was device to make sure Sanjaya didn't stand out!

A Fountainhead conspiracy to make all talent equal!

der Brucer

[Jeanne]

Back in the 80s on one of my many NY sojourns I was in the Mysterious Bookshop and saw that my pal Dick Lochte had written a mystery called Sleeping Dog.  I never even knew he was working on such a thing (he'd been a theater critic for LA Magazine, and occasional script writer, and did occasional stuff for the Book Review section of the LA Times).  I bought it and read it (a great book) and I was really impressed.  Now, I'd been thinking about writing some sort of novel - I wasn't sure what at that point, but I knew it would be a mystery or, as I was thinking then, something about me as a kid (maybe a mystery, too, with the fictional me having to solve a crime).  

But, I was too chicken to do it (new territory and all - very scary).  I'd think about it every year, but in the end, nope.  After reading Dick's book I thought, holy moley on rye, this guy who'd never done it before, did it, and it's really good.  

I then thought about it every year, once a year, until the beginning of the year 2001.  That was the year I said, "You know, you've never been chicken about anything in your whole life, so either do it or never think about it again.  The next day, I began to think about a story about my childhood growing up in LA.  Three months later, after writing down many anecdotes I wanted to talk about, I dove in and began writing.  I gave the first chapter (which became the prologue) to my friend Margaret, and she LOVED it, and encouraged me to keep going.  And I did.  That book took a little over nine months to write (2001 being a year of great turmoil), but, in the end, I did it - a lot of the thanks go to Margaret, who was so positive and wonderful about the book.

I learned several things about how best to use my time when writing, all of which have served me well on the subsequent books.

Thanks, Bruce. "Chicken" is a not a word I've ever associated with you.  

[singdaw]

The guy last night lied and just couldn't be bothered to do the job

He should be strung up by his thumbs, and given a dishonorable mention in the book's acknowledgements...

[DERBRUCER]

Hmmm.....I have very mixed feelings about a black version of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.....

I think it could have worked with the selected cast - as long as they didn't try to "play Black". The black "Dolly" worked.

That said, would anyone ever attempt an all white Porgy and Bess?

der Brucer

[singdaw]

That said, would anyone ever attempt an all white Porgy and Bess?

I don't know that they could...I think the estate controls that pretty carefully.

[DERBRUCER]

Last night's "House":

Very disappointing story line....for me.  The buildup was good...but the denouement just sucked.

It could have been worse - the Airplane events could have ended up a "Snowball Event".

der Brucer

(as in St. Elsewhere)

[DERBRUCER]

I don't know that they could...I think the estate controls that pretty carefully.

New TV - "Porgy and Bess - You're the One That We Want"

der Brucer

Now that is scary!

[Jennifer]

Has anybody heard anything about the new show on FOX called DRIVE? It starts on sunday (although it is on in canada this friday).

I can't tell if it is part reality show or what?

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We're still on page four?

[singdaw]

...or a "Shower Event."

(as in Dallas)

[singdaw]

What happens if Fritz gets in the shower, but JR is already in there?

[DearReaderLaura]

The radio station played a portion of Sanjaya singing Besame Mucho, and I liked what I heard.

An idol doesn't necessarily equal talent. An idol is marketed to the young girls (or boys). I have never watched American Idol (except for a Youtube clip once or twice), but doesn't that fit Sanjaya?

[DearReaderLaura]

I have just emailed the head office telling them to cancel my room at the hotel because I have made a reservation of my own elsewhere.

[elmore3003]

He should be stung up by his thumbs, and given a dishonorable mention in the book's acknowledgements...

As Lorenz Hart wrote:
Did you ever get stung where the doctor can't help you?

[singdaw]

Jule Styne: What did you say to Mr. Sondheim when you came in and heard how he'd taken your material and done Rose's Turn (assuming that story is not an urban legend)?

I remember reading a fairly lengthy and detailed account of that late night work session where Mr. S. and Jerome Robbins supposedly created "Rose's Turn."

But where...WHERE did I read that?  Was in the Secrest biography, or what?

[singdaw]

As Lorenz Hart wrote:

Spoo!  Thanks; I have fixed the offending post.  But the error remains preserved in your quote!