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[DERBRUCER]

DerBrucer - What is your point of view on that excerpt you described as Scriptland?

To me, the operative words seem to be:  "Carter was the last writer to work on the project."  It seems to me that Carter is not the underdog in this, but that the people who came up with the idea, spent years developing and pitching their work, only to have Carter come in and do a (probably very necessary) polish are the underdogs - and the underdogs won the arbitration.  (Reference to the Undrerdog film unintentional.)

A. I posted it to be informative, I did not have a specialized point of view (other that my "suspect" anti-organized labor bias).

B. I agree the facts suggest that Carter is not the "underdog", but at the same time derserves some credit for her artistic contributions.

C. To be the villain of the piece is, surprise, the WGA and their arcane procedures.

D. The WGA's refusal to allow the end credit note of appreciation confirms my belief that they seem to want to wield power for pleasure - and have little patience for compromise.

der Brucer

[Cillaliz]

DR Cilla - Where are you going on the NYMF site to request your tickets?

Thanks...

Go to the "Buy a membership" Then at the top, before you fill out all the stuff, you can click on "my account" and log in to get them.  or you can log in at www.ovationtix.com/trs/account/52

[DERBRUCER]

Fight the system...go up the down staircase!!  

Sort of like going up into the pit

der Brucer

[Cillaliz]

The site is now saying "Service temporarily unavailable"

[singdaw]

Thanks to all you lovely DRs for the "millstone" wishes [and such a lovely photograph, DR edisaurus!   ]

DR elmore3003 - well, just like the whole process itself, the move wasn't easy & smooth, but at least it is done.  Except for the unpacking.  Hope the home damage isn't too severe or inconvenient.

Thanks for the "Q" reports from DRs JoseSPiano and Jason.

***PAIN-FREE VIBES*** to DR Edisaurus.

***GENERAL VIBES OF EXCELLENCE*** for August for everyone!

[singdaw]

Thanks, DR Cillaliz!  

[singdaw]

WOD:

I admit I have a problem.  But only in highly specific and selected areas.  Clothing, for example, holds no sway over me at all.   And I guess it shows!

[Cillaliz]

Well now I have one ticket to Starfighter and Brain and it shows I have 2 more tickets remaining that I can purchase, but it will only let me purchase one for each show.  I may have to get another membership to get Sam's tickets...hrumph

[DERBRUCER]

The site is now saying "Service temporarily unavailable"

Does it speak with an Indian accent?

der Brucer

[Cillaliz]

I called Ovation tix and got through.  It doesn't appear that there is a restriction on the number of tickets you can purchse per show, but Mia couldn't get it to give me more than one per show either. She will check on it and call me back. She thinks it may have been set up wrong

[td]

Good morning!
Happy August!
I finished up July with excellent health news for Mum.
The nodules on her right lung are insignificant, according to the pulmonary specialist who looks like an 8th grader, but if they grow in a three month time span, then they'll biopsy and make any other decisions.
I saw the cat scans, as Dr. Tsai explained everything.  There might be a touch of emphysema, nothing major.
The thyroid, like the liver, is nothing of major concern, in spite of the presence of cysts.
The hernia is treatable and again, nothing of major concern.
So, Mum is in better health than the original scans would lead one to believe.

As for me, I've been working my tail off daily and relaxing at night by working my way through the ESTHER WILLIAMS boxed set and the new MGM MUSICALS boxed set.

AND. . .my accompanist, Matt Brown, and I have been meeting twice weekly and now have a new cabaret  almost set in stone with a bit of new material; I think that there are only three songs which I've performed before.

Now, off to work. . .
Catch you all later. . . .
 

[DERBRUCER]

Clothing, for example, holds no sway over me at all.   And I guess it shows!

Well, if you eschew clothing, I guess a great deal shows

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

She thinks it may have been set up wrong

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried..." A. Pope

der Brucer

[singdaw]

DR Cillaliz, I experienced the same problem, and Ovation Tix admits the glitch.  They said they're trying to work to fix, and to try back again later.

[singdaw]

DR td, great news about your mum!!  Or, at least, much better than originally thought.  Yea!  

[Jrand73]

Sort of like going up into the pit

der Brucer

Eggs-zactly.  

[Jrand73]

Good news from DR td.

A glitch...and they admit it!!  That's the first step.

[Jrand73]

I bought the London Cast Album of THE PAJAMA GAME.

Edmund Hockridge as Sid is about what you would expect from his name....and his photo....the man has a nose and he can sing through it.  Max Wall as Hines is veddy proper.  Elizabeth Seal as Gladys is VERY strange.  BUT....Miss Joy Nichols as Babe is dee-lightful.  Frank Lawless is also very good as Prez.

This is one of my favorite shows....and I have always enjoyed it.  Of course Miss Doris Day IS Babe Williams, but Miss Nichols is my next favorite.  Miss Janis Paige is fun....and I always thought her notes were written that way....but Miss Nichols rocks.

The tempii on this recording are FAST, especially "There Once Was Man"...whew!!!  Everything that is of course except "Steam Heat" which is pretty damn slow.

[singdaw]

I did a bad thing last night.

And why is this a bad thing, exactly?  

[Jrand73]

And why is this a bad thing, exactly?  

Seems like a choreographer should be there until the bitter end....I just ended it sooner than he thought....I guess.  

[Jrand73]

At the Golden Finger Bowl or anywhere you go.....

[elmore3003]

ARG!!!!!

I logged in and selected the tickets for Last Starfighter and Brain from Planet X, but as I was checking out it got messed up.  Now I can't log back in and I don't know if I have tickets or not.  I called the number on the website for Ovation Tix and it says it's not a good numner.  S0, I called the Music Festival number and left a message.  I'll keep trying... I hope I didn't totally mess this up

Call your credit card and see if a charge went through.

[DERBRUCER]

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WOMAN COLLECTED $2M IN WELFARE AS ADOPTED CHILDREN STARVED

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —
A Florida woman accused of using aliases to adopt 11 New York children received as much as $2 million in child welfare payments even as she starved, bound and abused them, police said Tuesday.

Investigators initially believed Judith Leekin, 62, had adopted nine children, but authorities in New York said Tuesday that Leekin adopted 11 children in all from New York City's foster care system between 1993 and 1996.

Authorities believe Leekin held the adopted children like prisoners in her Port St. Lucie home, often handcuffing them together and forcing them to soil themselves because they weren't allowed to use the bathroom.
…
According to the children's services administration, Leekin used aliases to fraudulently adopt the children and had been receiving welfare payments at different addresses and bank accounts until her arrest in July.
…
Parents who adopt special needs children in New York City can get as much as $55 a day until the child turns 21.
...

I wonder how many people over the years saw all kinds of hints of this abuse and turned away because it was "none of my business".

der Brucer

[Matt H.]

Will we never get to page two?

If people post, we will.

[Cillaliz]

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried..." A. Pope

der Brucer

Ah but then you would never be a trail blazer

[Cillaliz]

Call your credit card and see if a charge went through.

There's no charge these are the free tickets

[Cillaliz]

Just had a call back from Mia at Ovationtix, she said they are fixing it, but she went ahead and fixed it for me so I now have 2 tix for both shows.  

[Matt H.]

Good morning!

I've already gotten sweaty hot doing some yard work this morning, trying to get it done before it got too late, but I got overheated nevertheless.

Summer in the South is the pits when there's work to be done outside.

[Matt H.]

Thanks to DEs Jose and Jason for their Q-party experiences. Love this kind of insider information. Would love to hear more.

[elmore3003]

Someone (DR DerBrucer maybe?) referred to me as "lapsed" last evening.  Since my family isn't Catholic, which is how my family in my memories used the descriptive word, I'm not sure the word is totally correct, but it certainly is a better term to describe my feelings about the Vatican mafia and its narrow mind!  Off the soapbox now.

Thank you.  Thank you.