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[singdaw]

Oconomowoc

Where you can always get a cheap stir-fry!

[singdaw]

Lou Grant
Made a rant
About a miscreant
Discount pant
Soiled by a plant
Grown by Gus van Sant...

[Can you tell our network has been down the entire day?]

[singdaw]

Someone should put me out of your [collective] misery...

[FJL]

Noel - If you consider curtainup.com a pan, your list requires further analysis.  

And I don't see the rave from Roma Torre on NY1, which reaches more targeted theatergoers than most of your list.

And USA Today clearly comes down on the side of recommending the show, despite its star rating.  

And David Finkle at Theatremania, while negative for the show, found several of the brand new songs "enthralling" - so there are gradations in the pans.

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

So sorry to hear about Larry's bedbug problems! Oy! Hope they are soon gone forever!

Thanks to all who wished me feel-better vibes. I've needed them!

Thanks, too, to GINNY and DAKOTA for their reading recs. Like Ginny, I usually read light novels--often a mysteries--while ill. But that brand new Val McDermid was at hand and I just couldn't resist! A few years ago, laid-up with bronchitis, I kept ordering and ordering used books from Amazon; I'd read them as fast as they arrived.

[DearReaderLaura]

I agree with Feingold about the ending of the film and stage versions of LITTLE MERMAID. There can't be a happy ending for fish out of water ...

The Little Mermaid kills herself in the Hans Christian Anderson story. Doesn't she?

[DearReaderLaura]

Feel better soon, Jeanne!

[Noel]

There were certainly gradations in the pans.  I intended to include NY1 and it slipped my mind.  Let's shift Curtain Up to the Mixed column.  So, after FJL demanded a recount" the results are:
Pans - 20
Mixed - 2
Positive - 3

I'm reminded of my Little League "career."  I tearfully told some adult we'd been clobbered 21-3 and, in that "there, there" way, was told that it really wasn't so bad: the actual score was 20-3.

[elmore3003]

The Little Mermaid kills herself in the Hans Christian Anderson story. Doesn't she?

My memory is that she becomes sea foam, since she cannot go back to her world nor remain on earth.  Dvorak's great opera RUSALKA with its glorious "Song to the Moon" is the same story, and Giraudoux' play ONDINE, which starred Audrey Hepburn, is based on the version UNDINE by  Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte Fouqué, which needs a new edition.  In Giraudoux' play, she returns to the fold, as I recall.  My memory is that her last scene is with the Old Man of the Sea - the deal is she will forget everything on earth if Hans is unfaithful to her. i've always wanted to read UNDINE, but English versions have been out of print for years.

[elmore3003]

I spoke too soon! There is a new paperback edition of Motte-Fouquet's 1814 story UNDINE, and I found a used copy from the 1930s , so I'll soon own the story.

[FJL]

Noel - Is this the new math?  (You didn't add NY1 to the list of positives. )

When a critic recommends a show, as did USA Today, that would qualify as "positive," though not a rave, wouldn't it?

I haven't read all the reviews you cite, so I'll have to trust you for now on the lengthy list you have of pans.  though i wonder since you initially read curtainup as a pan.

But this is not a winner-take-all sports game.  There is nothing "fairly unanimous" about the negative pronouncement on LITTLE MERMAID, which is what I took issue with in your post a few pages back.  reasonable critical minds can come to teh conclusion that it's a good show.

[Matt H.]

It was totally clouded over now, and it does look like that "winter mix" they're predicting is going to happen. There's snow in them there clouds.

[Matt H.]

I began my afternoon of viewing with last night's SVU, a very disturbing story of a 14 year old boy raping three 10 year old girls and a boy. And a very surprising conclusion.

[Matt H.]

The Criterions did not arrive today, but Paramount was certainly on the ball: four more review copies from them including two TV box sets (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST-Season 3 and SOUL FOOD), a Comedy Central comedy special, and a PBS miniseries called THE JEWISH AMERICANS that runs four hours. These all come out the first week of February.

[Matt H.]

So, I went back to the world of Steve McGarrett with 3 1/2 more episodes. The last episode I only got about 15 minutes into is guest starring Hume Cronyn as a gentleman thief in a rare comic outing for the show.

[Matt H.]

Among the other episodes I watched was a BIG surprise. The female guest star in the hour looked VERY familiar and it took me most of the show to place her, but I finally did before the credits:

Marianne McAndrew (Irene Malloy from the film of HELLO, DOLLY!)! This is the only other thing I've ever seen her in besides HELLO, DOLLY. She played a girl on the lamb from the mob and had taken up with a guy who just turned out to be the #1 hit man for the mob! He was played by Don Stroud.

[DearReaderLaura]

The prince marries a princess, and the sea witch tells the little mermaid she has to kill him (with a knife that her sisters obtained from the sea witch in exchange for their hair) in order to become a mermaid again. She cannot kill him, and throws herself into the sea and turns into sea foam.

[Matt H.]

Another episode had the wonderful Simon Oakland as a paraplegic veteran of WWII who believes he recognizes the Japanese commander of the prison camp, the man responsible for cutting off his foot. Naturally, no one believes his ravings about this Japanese gentlemen.

[DearReaderLaura]

Interestingly, the replacement for my son's internet whatsis arrived today -- just two days ago I was told it would ship next month.

[Matt H.]

I concluded my afternoon with a quick skim of today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. There was atmospheric interference with the cable reception, but it came in clearly enough for me to see there were no Luke and Noah. They weren't in the previews either.

[George]

I'm creating a new act for a bipolar cabaret performer.

I'm thinking of creating a medley by combining "Lucky to Be Me" [from On the Town ] with "It Sucks To Be Me" [from Avenue Q ].

Also, "Everybody Say's Don't" [from Anyone Can Whistle ] with "Yes" [from 70, Girls, 70 ].

I make my own CD compilations and these are the sorts of things I do with them.  Thanks for the idea!

[Miss Karen]

Hiya, Georgie  

[Miss Karen]

The prince marries a princess, and the sea witch tells the little mermaid she has to kill him (with a knife that her sisters obtained from the sea witch in exchange for their hair) in order to become a mermaid again. She cannot kill him, and throws herself into the sea and turns into sea foam...

... and then the Old Man in the Sea tells some inane dream -- The End

.. Didn't Cormac McCarthy write this story and the Cohen Brothers make a movie out of it called "No Sea for Old Mermaids" ?

[elmore3003]

The prince marries a princess, and the sea witch tells the little mermaid she has to kill him (with a knife that her sisters obtained from the sea witch in exchange for their hair) in order to become a mermaid again. She cannot kill him, and throws herself into the sea and turns into sea foam.

Had your complete tome of Andersen handy?

[Miss Karen]

Hiya, ELmo and DRLaura  

[Matt H.]

Have a bit of writing to do, and then back down to spend the evening with Steve McGarret and (especially) "Danno" Williams.

At 10, they will go away, and I'll be enjoying the law and order in NYC.

WBBL.

[Miss Karen]

Hiya, Matt H and bk  

[Miss Karen]

Biya, Folks!

[bk]

Gradations In The Pans - that's the title of my next novel.

[bk]

I printed, I Xeroxed, I delivered, I took those DVD frame grabs Michael Shayne was so kind to send me over to a photo printing place and I'm having five done, so this will be the first time I've done the Courts show where I'll actually have photos from TV shows people will remember.  The guy at the photo place was actually impressed with the frame grabs and thinks they'll print very well.