Topic: DELVING (Read 20580 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:13:56 AM »

Phone listing:

Dolls Incorporated AX - 5701

We lost June!

bk · « **Reply #31 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:33:22 AM »

Page one is now in its proper ratio.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #32 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:33:47 AM »

Is Lassie in LASSIE COME HOME considered a male performance or a female performance?

bk · « **Reply #33 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:33:54 AM »

And may I just ask a simple question? Where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think this was a Saturday.

Jay · « **Reply #34 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:35:10 AM »

I'm leaving now to get a haircut. Isn't that exciting? Isn't that too too?

td · « **Reply #35 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:40:19 AM »

Quote from: Jay on January 31, 2004, 09:35:10 AM

I'm leaving now to get a haircut. Isn't that exciting? Isn't that too too?

Any hair in paricular?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:44:08 AM »

I keep remembering Dolly Parton's answer when a member of her audience asked how long it took the hairdresser to do her hair....
Dolly replied: "I don't know, I'm never there when she does it!"

Danise · « **Reply #37 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:47:59 AM »

Jay good luck! Hair today, gone tomorrow!

bk · « **Reply #38 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:48:22 AM »

Also, I'm happy to welcome the darling daughter (JB) to our family of registered users. I don't know that she'll be online all that often, but I've just e-mailed her a tutorial on how to use our new board.

bk · « **Reply #39 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:50:05 AM »

I am now off to buy some of Tuesday's DVDs. It's a heavy week - all these Warner titles like Gaslight and such (truth be told there are no real must-haves in this batch - I'm on the fence about picking up the new My Fair Lady because the old transfer is excellent and I just don't love the movie). I'll let you know what I've got when I get back.

SwishySarah · « **Reply #40 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:52:05 AM »

When I was in The Music Man, I got a box of maple sugar on my birthday. I remember having to PUSH through the crowd of kids who wanted to be at the front of the stage to be seen. They kept telling them that they HAD to move backwards during one line, because the soloists had to get to the front, but they never did. During one rehearsal, one girl stuck her foot out in front of me, and I tripped. They put her in the back for the rest of the number!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 31, 2004, 09:53:16 AM »

It's a rule DRSarah....it happens in every production!

Some people don't understand that the director and or choreographer made a CONSCIOUS decision to put them in the back!

Robin · « **Reply #42 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:23:09 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. 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 two words for Marooned: Beau Wring. Seriously, don't bother; it's incredibly tedious.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #43 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:26:47 AM »

True, DR RobinAnderson - but lots of nice actors earning a paycheck!

No guesses yet on the photo?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:30:17 AM »

Quote from: William E. Lurie on January 31, 2004, 09:33:47 AM

Is Lassie in LASSIE COME HOME considered a male performance or a female performance?

How was Linda Hunt nominated? Lassie would be handled the same way I think....performer of one sex portraying a character of the other.

PennyO · « **Reply #45 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:49:53 AM »

Like Streep as the little old rabbi...

PennyO · « **Reply #46 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:51:47 AM »

Hey - is anyone here in LA who can play the Queen of the Night's Vengeance aria for me today or tomorrow??? I'm in a spot. It's a paying gig...

Panni · « **Reply #47 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:53:08 AM »

Good morning. Favorite performances (And this is what comes to mind this morning. Ask me this afternoon and the list wouldn't be the same)...
Montgomery Clift in anything. I love(d) Montgomery Clift. Perhaps FROM HERE TO ETERNITY or RAINTREE COUNTY (where his beautiful face is forever changed mid-movie - or earlier - haven't seen it in years), in his bit in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG where he just breaks your heart.
I like Laurence Harvey in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; Ray Milland in LOST WEEKEND; Gene Kelly in SINGING IN THE RAIN...
Female performances... A few I can think of right now: Naomi Watts in MULHOLLAND DRIVE. Lee Remmick in DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES; Jeanne Morreau in JULES ET JIM; Simone Signoret in ROOM AT THE TOP, Diane Keaton in ANNIE HALL.

Panni · « **Reply #48 on:** January 31, 2004, 10:56:37 AM »

Quote from: PennyO on January 31, 2004, 10:51:47 AM

the Queen of the Night's Vengeance aria for me today or tomorrow??? I'm in a spot. It's a paying gig...

Wow. I'm impressed you can sing that, Penny! Hope you find an accompanist. Where would you be performing it?

Panni · « **Reply #49 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:06:49 AM »

Penny, I sent you a private message about an accompanist. let me know if you don't get it - or email me. I have a phone number for you.

bk · « **Reply #50 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:07:38 AM »

I bought Marooned on DVD and didn't last forty minutes - it's really bad.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #51 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:09:49 AM »

BK, been listening to GUY HAINES: A WONDERFUL GUY. Though Guy Haines may not have the biggest voice in the world, or the richest, most dulcet tones, to me it's a perfect voice, one I love and respect more and more with every hearing. It executes a song with simplicity, directness, clarity, and nice phrasing. No frills or trills, no interpolating arias into the composer's melodies just to show off the instrument. It serves the song; finds its heart and emotion and wit and just makes the listener feel good. He also has excellent song selection. I've, who have always thought of myself as a pretty song archeologist, have found more good songs this past year just by listening to Guy Haines' albums...not just by discovering ones I'd never known about, but also by reassessing old ones through Mr. Haines' lovely interpretations. Thanks for bringing this unique artist to my attention.

The lovely wife feels the same way...and she especially loves the Everybody Wants to Be Sondheim song. Everybody wants to finish the hat, indeed!

Jay · « **Reply #52 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:13:29 AM »

Quote from: PennyO on January 31, 2004, 10:51:47 AM

Hey - is anyone here in LA who can play the Queen of the Night's Vengeance aria for me today or tomorrow??? I'm in a spot. It's a paying gig...

I can't play it for you but I can sing it for you. Of course, my rendition would make Florence Foster Jenkins sound like Lily Pons, but that's another story.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #53 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:14:25 AM »

My strange Panatheon:

Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ruth Gordon – Rosemary’s Baby

Bette Davis – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Jason Robards – A Thousand Clowns

Jackie Gleason – A Soldier in the Rain

Red Buttons – Sayonara

IF TV Counts:

Olympia Dukakis – Tales of the City

der Brucer (Fletcher made me so detest Nurse Ratched, that I carried that "hate" emotion over into other times when I saw her perform - she was still giving me the willies when she guested in Deep Space Nine)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #54 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:21:29 AM »

Now - from Mars!

Follow the Dusty Red Tracks.
Follow Dusty Red Tracks, follow the Dusty Red, follow the Dusty Red Tracks
You're off to see the Princess, The Beautiful Princess of Mars.

der Brucer (with apologies to DR Pogue)

bk · « **Reply #55 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:26:19 AM »

Pogue - I shall pass on your lovely post to Mr. Haines.

Some of my pantheon performances - Of course I'm adding Mr. Shimura from Ikiru - an astonishing performance. Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Mr. Peck in Mockingbird, Miss Bancroft and Miss Duke (especially the latter) in The Miracle Worker, Mr. Bogart in Casablanca, Mr. Claude Rains in Notorious, Mr. John Wayne in The Searchers, Mr. Joel McCrea and Mr. Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country, Mr. Holden and Miss Swanson in Sunset Blvd., Mr. Preston in The Music Man, Mr. Chaplin in City Lights, Katherine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey into Night (WHERE IS THE DVD), Cary Grant in North by Northwest, James Stewart in Vertigo and Rear Window, Bette Davis in Baby Jane, and I'm sure I'll think of a hundred more shortly.

PennyO · « **Reply #56 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:28:59 AM »

Quote from: Panni on January 31, 2004, 10:56:37 AM

Wow. I'm impressed you can sing that, Penny! Hope you find an accompanist. Where would you be performing it?

Garry Marshall's Falcon is mounting a kids' version, and I'd love to work there. Monday is the audition. I used to scream the bejesus out of that song, years ago, in my oh-ain't-she-just-the-opera-diva days... ps - thanks for the ref.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #57 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:39:40 AM »

BK, I would have chosen Wayne in THE SEARCHERS & McCrea & Scott from RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY as well. Also Errol Flynn in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD for its sheer swashbuckling exuberance. O'Toole in so many films.

My wife is giving a shower for a friend this afternoon. I must escape...I think I shall flee to the wilds of Pasadena for a few hours...hunt some books, pay a visit to Canterbury Records, perhaps visit a paper show at the Elks Lodge. O! What frolics and misadventures I shall partake of!

Panni · « **Reply #58 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:40:32 AM »

Quote from: PennyO on January 31, 2004, 11:28:59 AM

ps - thanks for the ref.

You're welcome. Hope it works out.

Panni · « **Reply #59 on:** January 31, 2004, 11:42:39 AM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on January 31, 2004, 11:39:40 AM

.hunt some books, pay a visit to Canterbury Records, perhaps visit a paper show at the Elks Lodge. O! What frolics and misadventures I shall partake of!

Sometimes it's SO nice not to have a deadline looming.

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