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« Reply #60 on: July 27, 2007, 06:46:12 AM »

DR JRAND:

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« Reply #61 on: July 27, 2007, 06:46:37 AM »

I made the mistake of listening to "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray on the way in to work - my first time ever hearing the song - and now I'm going to have it running through my head all day.  :)
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« Reply #62 on: July 27, 2007, 06:46:37 AM »

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« Reply #63 on: July 27, 2007, 06:46:37 AM »

Now that's how you start a page!  :)
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« Reply #64 on: July 27, 2007, 06:47:34 AM »

I made the mistake of listening to "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray on the way in to work - my first time ever hearing the song - and now I'm going to have it running through my head all day.  :)

You've never heard the song before until this morning!?!?!??!?!

Turn in your card AND your commemorative pair of Ruby Slippers NOW!

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« Reply #65 on: July 27, 2007, 06:47:36 AM »

DR JRand56, ***PEACEFUL, CALMING VIBES*** to you and your company.
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« Reply #66 on: July 27, 2007, 06:47:40 AM »

And Congrats to DR Jose on turning 21.  You are now legal.
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« Reply #67 on: July 27, 2007, 06:48:01 AM »

Does anyone else remember the Haney School of Television Acting on Green Acres?

He had a tomato juice can on a crate for a camera and an orange juice can on a fishing pole for the boom microphone.

The two most important rules in television acting:

NEVER look into the tomato juice can.
ALWAYS say your lines into the orange juice can.

Now imagine Pat Buttram saying that - and Eva Gabor repeating it.
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« Reply #68 on: July 27, 2007, 06:48:23 AM »

Turn in your card AND your commemorative pair of Ruby Slippers NOW!

But I get to keep the toaster oven, right?
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« Reply #69 on: July 27, 2007, 06:48:45 AM »

DR JRand56, ***PEACEFUL, CALMING VIBES*** to you and your company.

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

OMG.....You Can't Stop the Beat.....perfect.....I shall listen to it all day.  ;D
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« Reply #70 on: July 27, 2007, 06:49:18 AM »

But I get to keep the toaster oven, right?

Must be returned in its original box to point of origin.  :D
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« Reply #71 on: July 27, 2007, 06:49:25 AM »

However, it really is a catchy song.  -However, I prefer the original version from the show.  Well, actually, I prefer the mix of the OCR compared to the Soundtrack, in general.  However, when it was being blasted through the speakers in the movie theatre, my toes certainly started tapping.
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« Reply #72 on: July 27, 2007, 06:49:49 AM »

the suggestion of the AD that I restage ALL of the musical numbers is NOT an option.

But...

Why not?

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« Reply #73 on: July 27, 2007, 06:50:48 AM »

But I get to keep the toaster oven, right?

Well, honey, if you actually have a toaster oven, it seems that we have bigger fish to fry!  <snap>
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« Reply #74 on: July 27, 2007, 06:51:17 AM »

OK - Time for me to hop on the A Train (then the C Train)...

Laters...
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« Reply #75 on: July 27, 2007, 06:51:44 AM »

DR Singdaw, you never saw HAIRSPRAY on B'way or heard the OCR?!?

I think, yes--you do have to turn in the toaster oven!
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« Reply #76 on: July 27, 2007, 06:52:44 AM »

The world is falling apart.  NOTHING is working.  My life is over.

I think I will go shopping.
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« Reply #77 on: July 27, 2007, 06:54:31 AM »

Shopping--it's good for what ails ya!
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« Reply #78 on: July 27, 2007, 06:55:30 AM »

DR EDISAURUS....of course when you interview Miss Jo Stafford, you must also ask her about the inimitable Darlene Edwards, who is her close personal friend.

I think Ms Edwards' renditions of "The Carioca", "I'm Blase'", and "Midnight Choo Choo to Alabam" are nothing if not definitive.

Her husband Jonathan is of course the inventor of the piano technique known as "fractured fifths."
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« Reply #79 on: July 27, 2007, 06:55:53 AM »

Shopping--it's good for what ails ya!

Ain't it the GD truth!!!   :o
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« Reply #80 on: July 27, 2007, 06:56:40 AM »

DR Singdaw, you never saw HAIRSPRAY on B'way or heard the OCR?!?

*in a small, quiet voice...*
No.

But I saw the original movie a long time ago.  Do I get any redemption points for that?
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« Reply #81 on: July 27, 2007, 06:57:17 AM »

Ain't it the GD truth!!!

Almost a Wizard of Oz reference.
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« Reply #82 on: July 27, 2007, 06:58:02 AM »

*in a small, quiet voice...*
No.

But I saw the original movie a long time ago.  Do I get any redemption points for that?

Once again your hair hopper hairstyle is interfering with the Algebra education of a fellow student!!!!   8)
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« Reply #83 on: July 27, 2007, 06:58:10 AM »

DR JRand56, thanks for the info on singing in Valley of the Dolls.
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« Reply #84 on: July 27, 2007, 07:06:14 AM »

DR JRand56, thanks for the info on singing in Valley of the Dolls.

Well that's GENERAL knowledge for MOST of us in the fraternity....it was on the admission exam....   ;D
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« Reply #85 on: July 27, 2007, 07:07:19 AM »

...hum hum hum my happiness,
'Cause I like the way I am...
Hum hum hum hum
Hum hum hum--

Darnnit, DR Singdaw--now you got that song going in my head and I'm going to have to listen to the soundtrack again!  (Don't have the OCR handy at the mo'.)

I've mentioned that I like the soundtrack a lot.  I think Nikki Blonsky ins wonderful as Tracy.  I was pleasantly surprised how well Zac Efron sings Link.  Queen Latifah seems like she can never do anything wrong.  

I'm probably in the minority on this, but I do like how "Cooties" has been reworked into a Brittany Spears style.  And I love the surprise in "Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now".

Disappointed that 'Big Dollhouse" was dropped.  Michelle Pfeiffer talk-sings her "Miss Baltimore Crabs" way too much (but the song arrangements are wonderful!)  And what can be said about Travolta?  Feh!, is what I say.
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« Reply #86 on: July 27, 2007, 07:08:49 AM »

*in a small, quiet voice...*
No.

But I saw the original movie a long time ago.  Do I get any redemption points for that?

Well, that will be for The Commission to decide.
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« Reply #87 on: July 27, 2007, 07:09:59 AM »

*in a small, quiet voice...*
No.

But I saw the original movie a long time ago.  Do I get any redemption points for that?

Oohhhhhhh dear StringBritch ..... We may have to kidnap you, and keep you isolated in a room with Garland records and B. Davis movies for about 2 weeks.....kind of "reverse de-programming."    :o

And dear Jrand....... I absolutely loved the movie of Hairspray, although I agree with an earlier comment that I thought the 2 weakest castings were Travolta and Walken.

I did, however, miss 2 of my alltime favorite little "throwaway" lines from the original film.........the first from a teacher -- "Tracy Turnblad, you're just a hair hopper!!"  And the second line, when Edna sees Tracy on TV the first time with her partial bleach job......."Oh my, Tracy Turnblad with a triple process!!"
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« Reply #88 on: July 27, 2007, 07:12:27 AM »

Will we never get to page two?

A distinct possibility.
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« Reply #89 on: July 27, 2007, 07:17:26 AM »

DR EDISAURUS....sorry I wasn't around yesterday to remind your DH that Margaret Whiting sang "I'll Plant My Own Tree" for Miss Susan Hayward in THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS....although because Whiting had an exclusive recording contract at Capital (I think), the song was sung on the soundtrack by Eileen Wilson who was also the singing voice for Barbara Bel Geddes in THE FIVE PENNIES, a movie I forgot to put on my list yesterday.

And I prefer Eileen's version of the song on the soundtrack album to Margaret's version in the film.
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