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[Donna]

[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Four Calling Birds[/move]

[singdaw]

Nine Ladies Dancing

Especially the one in front!  

[DERBRUCER]

Oh, and also:  Congratulations on your unique posting milestone!!

How about some sympathy for the poor horse - bk s buns of steel bouncing in his saddle 33,333 times!

der Brucer

[Ginny]

DR JMK - of the 5 potential vacation destinations you mentioned earlier, we've been to 2:

Las Vegas - never care to go back

Southern Utah - We spent one night in Springdale at Flanigan's Inn in the middle of a 3 & 1/2 week family driving vacation when our son was almost 11.  Zion National Park is beautiful and I've always wanted to go back to the area for a longer period of time.

[singdaw]

bk's buns of steel

Quite right.  We haven't had DR MusicGuy around much lately to remind us.  

[bk]

FJL, in the show, Turkey Lurkey is set up thusly:

Dobitch: And now, ladies and gentlemen, the Christmas Party Committee has asked the Idea Committee to come up with an idea for the Christmas Party.  So without further ado, I give you Miss Polansky of Accounts Receivable, Miss Wong of Mimeograph, and Miss Della Hoya of Petty Cash.

[singdaw]

But their chiropractor is egregiously overlooked.

[Donna]

singdaw: The Nine Ladies Dancing is an early (as late 30s or 40s) rehearsal shot of The Rockettes.

Below was my alternate photo from Les Ballet Trockadero  

[FJL]

Thanks for the info, BK.

I guess that is kind of a cute set-up.  Seems to winks at the convention while using it.  And the number's lots of fun, indeed.

[singdaw]

DR Donna - they are both lovely!  

[JoseSPiano]

Good Afternoon!

I'm back from seeing "Sweeney Todd"....

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT


























All I will say for now - well, for this post at least - is that it's most definitely a Tim Burton Film.  So, if you've never really been a fan of Tim Burton's movies, you probably won't like this one.  And if you've always loved Tim Burton film, well, then you'll be squealing with delight.  As for myself, I run hot and cold on Tim Burton films, and I have to say I run hot and cold on "Sweeney Todd".  I will say that the singing voices of everyone involved did not bother me.  Frankly, I think I would have been distracted if Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter turned out to have more legit/operatic voices.  The one thing that did bother me was the cutting of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" - well, more precisely the cutting of the vocals of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" since the music is played throughout the movie.  The opening credits sounded like a very expensive karaoke track - same deal with the music over the closing credits.  I wonder if the vocals were ever recorded?  I mean, couldn't 'they' have transferred the melody over to some low strings, woodwinds?  In any case, there are some truly brilliant moments in the film, some stunning images (the closing sequence!), and some neat "adapting" of the book for the film.  And I found the "Not While I'm Around" sequence very touching, if just a little questionably edited musically.  Oh,and I did get a kick of seeing "Mary Poppins" getting murdered.    -And the not so subtle reference to "Edward Scissorhands" early on.  At least I'm hoping it was intentional.

[JoseSPiano]

DR JMK - I'd vote for New Orleans, although, going there in the summer can be quite the "sultry" vacation.  I haven't been back in years, but I loved it when I was there.  And, frankly, post-Katrina I think it would be "neat" to see what things are like down there - and to help contribute to the economic recovery of the city as well.

[JoseSPiano]

Completely agree.  I was very disappointed in the music selection.  And he never really lets his voice out in this collection.

It'll probably sell 100 times more copies than the first CD!  

Well, at least a 100 more copies than his first CD.

[JoseSPiano]

And back to "Sweeney Todd" for a bit...















Yes.  There is lots of blood.  LOTS!  Although, I didn't it find it gross or gratuitous.  Just plentiful.  Flowing, gushing and squirting all over the place.  *I shudder to think how the movie treatment of the killings will have on future productions of the stage show.  Especially in regards to how the barber chair is set up when it comes to the disposing of the bodies.

[JoseSPiano]

OOHH!!!!  -Yes, one more "Sweeney Todd" bit...




















To my ears, Helena-Bonham Carter hits more of the correct notes in that score than anyone I've heard before.  She really does have an amazing sense of pitch.  It's the first time I've heard the chromatic figures in the opening verse of "A Little Priest" sung correctly.

[singdaw]

Yes.  There is lots of blood.  LOTS!  Flowing, gushing and squirting all over the place.

So cleaning up between takes wasn't a picnic, eh?

[JoseSPiano]

And this "Sweeney Todd" post will not require any SPOILER space...

There were about 20 other people in the theater with me.  Unfortunately, the two teenage girls sitting at the end of my row basically talked throughout the movie.  -Even after being "ssssshhh'd" and "be quiet'd" and "shut up'd" by various people.  However, at least from their comments, I could tell they were following the movie, and that they liked the music.  So, I guess that's something to appreciate.  

[DERBRUCER]

DR JMK - I'd vote for New Orleans, although, going there in the summer can be quite the "sultry" vacation.  I haven't been back in years, but I loved it when I was there.  And, frankly, post-Katrina I think it would be "neat" to see what things are like down there - and to help contribute to the economic recovery of the city as well.

At the various establishments on Bourbon street will give the boys an education you (JMK) never got in SLC.

der Brucer

[singdaw]

Unfortunately, the two teenage girls sitting at the end of my row basically talked throughout the movie.

Glad that they liked it.  Sad, but this is why I rarely step foot into a movie theatre anymore.  The first half hour of The Queen was ruined by a near riot in my local movieplex between people who wanted to talk and those who wanted them to shut up.  It ended with a party of people being evicted by the management, to the applause of all.  But the movie-going experience by that point had been ruined.

[DERBRUCER]

Too bad these don't come in SingDance's size:


der Brucer

[JoseSPiano]

Hmm...

My parents have and HD TV and have HD cable... It appears the programming on FoodTV is different from what's on FoodTVHD.  I guess it depends which programs were filmed in HD.  I wonder if this means I don't have to suffer through Rachel Ray's "30 Minute Meals".  

[Tomovoz]

IQ tests really only measure how well you can do I Q tests. They do not really measure intelligence.  They are a guide to assessing abilities in a range of areas that make up intelligence. They often depend upon literacy and numeracy levels of the participant - neither one which is a sign of intelligence.

[JoseSPiano]

Hmm...

Some friends of my parents dropped by last night with their Christmas card and a tin of cookies.  A tin of those Dansk Butter Cookies.  Well, it turns out, it was just the cookie tin, 'cause inside - as I just discovered, is an assortment of homemade cookies and fudge!  

[Tomovoz]

I don't pontificate that often!

[singdaw]

Too bad these don't come in SingDance's size:

How do you know that they don't?

I find them quite fetching.  

[singdaw]

I don't pontificate that often!

Don't be shy, DR Tomovoz - get up here on this soapbox with us!

[Ginny]

DR JMK - I'd vote for New Orleans, although, going there in the summer can be quite the "sultry" vacation.  I haven't been back in years, but I loved it when I was there.  And, frankly, post-Katrina I think it would be "neat" to see what things are like down there - and to help contribute to the economic recovery of the city as well.

Oh, yeah, I forgot I'd been to New Orleans, too.  And in the summer...

It was for the 1993 American Library Association Annual Conference and I thought I was pretty tough, having been several times to Phoenix in the summer.  Well, New Orleans in the summer is a whole different story and I thought I was going to die.  Much as I'd like to go back to NO, I would definitely NOT go in the summer.

[singdaw]

New Orleans

DR JoseSPiano likes New Orleans because of its nickname.  

[singdaw]

Too bad these don't come in SingDance's size:

The song is about a guy whose feet were too big for his bed, not his ballet slippers.

[bk]

Interesting reading, Jose.  I run colder than hot on Mr. Burton, so I have no idea what I'll think.  Even the films I've sort of liked like Ed Wood, overstay their welcome for me and become tiresome visually after a while.  I've heard that most of these morning shows were sparsely attended.