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« on: January 31, 2004, 12:06:53 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you've understood the notes, you've been note-ified, and therefore, you are hereby notified to post until the cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2004, 03:22:29 AM »

First post! Huzzah!
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2004, 03:34:43 AM »

DR KERRY - DR NOEL is correct, Montgomery Ward sent me a bathtub and crosscut saw!

"Wells Fargo Wagon" is one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite shows.  When I staged it a couple of years ago, I took a page from the movie book and had two little kids do the first 16 measures (the chorus repeated it) and it was great.....Dane Van Paris and his sister Alix were so funny....Dane was 4 at the time and he was swinging his arms and tapping his foot to get the beat and NEVER missed his lyric entrance!   ;D ;D  And a couple of years later he was a great Pud in On Borrowed Time!  :'(

I will tell another Music Man story - of another production - later today if anyone is interested.

Well many opinions and differences of opinions about knowing or not knowing before you see a musical.  I always read everything I can - sometimes knowing keeps you from being confused, because sometimes the performers - the lyrics - the actions - SOMETHING keeps you from understanding what you just saw.  I can see wanting to be surprised, but as DRJose said, many of us see a musical more than once.  And sometimes I see or hear something differently!  ::)

MR BK - I think I will check out this movie you mentioned, it sounds fascinating.  I just ordered the Cocteau 3-DVD set, so it will have to wait a bit.

Pantheon Performances:

VERY DIFFICULT

And I will cheat and do two of each: (totally subjective of course)

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate
Olivia deHavilland in The Heiress

Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr Chips
Kenneth Branagh Henry V
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2004, 04:06:24 AM »

Two more Pantheon Performances:

Boris Karloff as the "dear old monster" in Frankenstein.
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2004, 04:20:54 AM »

Yesterday, MattH wrote that:

<<Can I just say that James Fransiscus was one of the great beauties of his day? Good lord, that man was Adonis.>>

Yes, he was an Adonis, if a rather runty one.  Check out how he's dwarfed by Charlton Heston in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.  Good Lord, Heston was at least a head and a half taller than Mr. Fransiscus.  (Didn't Mr. Fransiscus die of lung cancer brought on by chainsmoking?)

About The Valley of Gwangi.  When I was a runty lad myself, my two favorite film genres were westerns and dinosaur movies.  Just imagine the rejoicing in my runty lad's heart when this movie came out, which had both cowboys and dinosaurs in it.  Ninety minutes of heaven, my friend, ninety minutes of heaven.  (I always loved the scene in which Gwangi gets revealed to the audience at the arena, and he's gobbling down that little guy.  Talk about a show stopper!)  Oh, and the score by Jerome Moross is just plain terrific!
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2004, 04:37:05 AM »

DRMATTH - you MUST see Youngblood Hawke!

I taped it from television MANY years ago, and I will see if my copy can be copied!
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2004, 05:38:11 AM »

It's a shame they shaved his chest for "Youngblood Hawke."  And there's nothing wrong with short!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2004, 05:38:53 AM »

td - send me your snail mail address.
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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2004, 05:43:47 AM »

I'll have to work on Pantheon performances.  Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue in "Summer Place" perhaps?  :>D
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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2004, 06:48:10 AM »

Pantheon performances:

Judy Garland in A STAR IS BORN
Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE
Anne Bancroft in THE MIRACLE WORKER

Richard Burton in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
Jack Lemmon in SOME LIKE IT HOT
Monty Woolley in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2004, 06:50:11 AM »

Pantheon performances:

Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2004, 06:51:50 AM »

Dear Reader Matt H--

GMTLA, at least on one of your female Pantheon-nominated performances.
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« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2004, 06:52:08 AM »

Thanks Noel and others for helping me the other day with "Wells Fargo Wagon."  

Now, if only I could get my raisins from Fresno.
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2004, 06:59:51 AM »

Isn't THE MUSIC MAN one of the most enjoyable musicals to just sit down and listen to? The wonderful mix of ballads and up tempo tunes, the marches, the comedy numbers, the barbershop singing. It's a great, great score.

How unfair that it and WEST SIDE STORY had to compete against each other at the Tonys that year. Argh!
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2004, 07:02:22 AM »

Yes, DR Jay, we were on the same Valhalla cloud at that moment!  :D
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2004, 07:22:51 AM »

Speaking of James Franciscus, who has seen MAROONED that he did with Gregory Peck, David Janssen, and Richard Crenna (among other hunky men of the perod)? I have to confess I've never seen it, but it's gratifying to know thatg it's on DVD and that I can watch it at some point.

I hated it when Hollywood producers made male stars shave their chests. Seeing William Holden all hairy and hunky in STALAG 13 and then all waxed and smooth in PICNIC is sickening.
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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2004, 07:52:19 AM »

MAROONED!  

I have made your Youngblood Hawke tape DR MATTH - and I am putting a surprise second feature on....something rarely shown on TV and OOP on VHS and NOT on DVD!  

Email me your snail mail address....thanks td...got yours!
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2004, 08:15:02 AM »

Good morning all!

Well the weather man was right for a change and we do indeed still have rain and I guess that means wet roads until tomorrow afternoon.  Good sleeping weather--I didn't wake up one time.  

What is it about a gentle rain on the roof that lulls you to sleep?

I love The Music Man also.  Another play I can say I did at one time.  :-)  I got to sing the "And a double boiler" line. It was my first "speaking" part on stage.  

Have a good day all!

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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2004, 08:18:51 AM »

All those great solo lines in Wells Fargo are so great!  I was "raisins from Fresno" once as well....and another time...I was the horse pulling the Wells Fargo Wagon!  Although come to think about it now - it would have been funny if the horse had sung that line.....Wiiiiilllllbuurrrrrrrrr!  ;D
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2004, 08:22:57 AM »

Yes.... Florence is a doll... I'm so looking foward to seeing her...

Seriously, out of curiousity, does anyone know if it's cheaper to fly to Rome, Paris, or London?
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« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2004, 08:23:37 AM »

Pantheonic Performances:
Toshiro Mifune: THRONE OF BLOOD
Marlon Brando: LAST TANGO IN PARIS

Vivien Leigh: GONE WITH THE WIND
Janice Rule: 3 WOMEN
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« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2004, 08:24:58 AM »

LOL, Jrand--did you have to have a pony tail?  
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« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2004, 08:27:45 AM »

Shoot, I hit post before I was ready.

I had one of the Mr. Ed puppets when I was kid.  The kind where you pulled the sting and Ed "spoke" lines like:  "My girlfriend has a pony tail" and "My shoes are good luck".  I loved that thing.  Wish I could remember what happened to it.
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2004, 08:28:36 AM »

Here's a contest for Saturday.....no sparkling prizes....but who knows what guesses we can come up with.

Here he is at 2 1/2 years of age.  He would be a film star in the 1950's and a television star in the 1960's up until today.

Who is it?  *DRMBarnum you already know, so you can't guess!
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« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2004, 08:33:12 AM »

LOL DRDanise...yes I did!

DR ANDREA check at Orbitz.com they usually have fares listed for everywhere.....looks like all your destinations are between $550 and $700....
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« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2004, 08:47:41 AM »

LOL DR JRand53, he hasn't changed much has he!
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« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2004, 08:55:22 AM »

bk, thanks for the report on Ikiru. I have always been curious about that film and I might have to pick it up.

Pantheon performances:

Barbara Stanwyck in NO MAN OF HER OWN and/or MIRACLE WOMAN

Joan Crawford in MILDRED PIERCE

Shirley McClaine in THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

June Kenney in ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (LOL!)

ladies and gentlemen...MISS JUNE KENNEY
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« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2004, 08:56:53 AM »

Woops, I think June put us into Regalscope!
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« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2004, 09:01:58 AM »

MBarnum, can you please resize June and shrink her as she was in the film so we can be normal again.  Thank you.

Mr. Franz

Apparently MBarnum is not capable of shrinking June, so I'm afraid I'll have to shrink her into oblivion.
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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2004, 09:12:11 AM »

No not much!
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