Topic: GIRDING MY LOINS (Read 28589 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #30 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:05:46 AM »

On the subject of Mandy Patinkin, I think he has a beautiful voice. I don't like how he chooses to use it on occasion. I bought his first two solo albums, and there were things on them I really liked, but when he goes over the top, well, that's when I check out. I know it's his style; he gets away with it and continues to do it, but I certainly switch to the next track when he goes into vocal overload.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #31 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:46:51 AM »

Well, since I was E&T for the last few days (that's it, blame me for an ~~irritable~~ ~~pissy~~ ~~cantakerous~~ ~~unhappy~~ diappointed Moderator).

I shall now seek to remedy the situation by helping make Monday a Day to Rememeber!

Here is the view from SWW's new perch:

der Brucer (a day late and a dozen posts short)

William F. Orr · « **Reply #32 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:48:29 AM »

After reading BK's posts from yesterday, I could not help myself:

Sunday
No one posts
On the blue and white website
With the bold
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Colored, scrolling-left fonts.[/move]
Only once
You have read the notes
Post here on a Sunday

On the cool,
Jiggy, popular website
With the teal,
Navy, yellow, beige text.
You be next
To cut and paste smileys

Or a picture of your cat
For BK...

In maroon,
lime greeen daily discussions,
Post some on-
Or off-topic remark.
Tell us what you think,
Post a new-found

Quote

Or link,
And trivia,

Or he'll get into a snit,
And he'll threaten that he'll quit
If we don't increase the numbers,
And he'll take away our Sundays...
Sundays...
Sundaes?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #33 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:48:38 AM »

I visit SWW at the Top of the World:

der Brucer

Sandra · « **Reply #34 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:48:50 AM »

So on Friday, I went to my History class and got out my folder, which has a picture of a kitty cat on it. This girl saw it and said that the cats are going to take over the world. I couldn't tell if she was joking or not, but then she said, "It's Friday and a full moon. Not a good time to be a werewolf," so she might have been serious about the cat thing.
Then this guy walked in. Every single day, he walks into the room and looks surprised. He just stares with his eyes wide open looking like he just can't believe that we are all sitting in a History classroom. He stood there looking stunned about a minute before sitting down two seats in front of me.
Then the teacher, Ms. Hee-uh, got there and started class. The red-headed guy sitting next to me fell asleep right away. He had a cell phone or beeper or something that kept going off, so Surprised Guy kept turning around looking, oddly enough, surprised.
Red-headed Sleeping Guy didn't wake up at the end of class, so we just left him there when we left. Total hee-uh count was 42.

Then today, "Not a good time to be a werewolf" was reading a book on do-it-yourself witchcraft and wondering aloud whether she could get what she needed at Wal*Mart. Then she closed the book and asked me if I was a Libra. I said no. Then she asked me if I was a Taurus. I said yes and she looked surprised that she'd gotten it in two tries. She said that she should have known I was a Taurus because so is she and "we get along so well."
Surprised Guy got to class a little late today after class had already started. He only stood in the doorway for 25 seconds (I timed him) before Ms. Hee-uh asked him if he would care to sit down.
Total hee-uh count today was 55 (in a 50-minute class).

TCB · « **Reply #35 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:53:47 AM »

WEL -- You and I are on the same wave length regarding The Beatles. I sat there, yesterday, reading the Sunday newspapers' barrage of articles concerning Johnpaulgeorgeringo; and I couldn't help but wonder why the same coverage was not given to the anniversary of the JFK assassination. I don't mean to diminish the profound effect The Beatles had on our culture, but I personally think that the Kennedy assassination marked the end of innocence for this country and effectively changed the course of world history.

bk · « **Reply #36 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:00:12 AM »

William F. Orr: Lovely, just lovely.

I'm still waiting to have my phone call. Apparently my little e-mail missive this weekend is causing seismic repurcussions and there is a meeting taking place (hence not being able to have my phone call yet) between all the production heads, all the VPs and the production department. I guess I'm not the only one who's having these silly kinds of problems from people not doing their jobs correctly, and apparently something will be done about it. Meanwhile, I will not be happy until I go over my notes with them, which hopefully, if their wise, will take place in the next couple of hours.

Jay · « **Reply #37 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:01:02 AM »

I ditto what Dear Reader TCB just said.

Dear Reader Sandra--We miss your posts! They are so entertaining. And what makes them even more so is the knowledge that they are the honest truth--you report 'em as you see 'em.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #38 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:07:07 AM »

Quote from: William F. Orr on February 09, 2004, 09:48:29 AM

And he'll take away our Sundays...
Sundays...
Sundaes?

Never On A Sundae!

der Brucer (wondering if a fully illustrated Kama Sutra would should how to do IT on a Sundae)

Oh, you can post it on a Monday, a Monday, a Monday is a very good day.
Or you can post it on a Tuesday, a Tuesday, a Tuesday, in fact I wish you would.

Or you can post it on a Wednesday, a Thursday, a Friday and Saturday’s not out.
But always, always on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday, cause that' s my day of pout.

Most any day you can be my guest. Any day you say, but ‘specially on the Day of Rest. Just name the day
You know the one. Please join us on the Day of Rest.

Oh, you can post it on cool day, a hot day, a wet day, whichever one you choose
Or try to post it on a gray day, a May day, a pay day, and see if I refuse.

And if you make it on a bleak day, a freak day, a week day, when I can be your host.
But, please ever on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday, the one day I need a little post.

Der Brucer (with apologies to Dilly Towns)

Ben · « **Reply #39 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:08:44 AM »

WEHT Jason, Hapgood and LC. I know Jason has been around recently, but where have LC and Hapgood disappeared?

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #40 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:12:51 AM »

I'm glad I'm not the only one who would have preferred a little more attention paid to JFK. I wonder what the world would be like today if he had lived. I'm sure every DR over about 45 remembers where they were when the first heard the news. I have to admit at the time I was a snotty 22 year old who was more concerned that the television debut of SINGIN' IN THE RAIN was pre-empted for the coverage, but over the years I began to appreciate what a great man JFK was (despite all those rumors about Marilyn Monroe - oh, a BLOOD BROTHERS reference). On the PBS Jack Paar tribute last week they had clips from JFK's appearance (also RFK). I think the country and the world would be in a much better place today if he had served the remainder of his term followed by a second term.

As for The Beatles, I enjoyed their early music when I heard it on the radio or television but didn't buy their recordings. I watched the Sullivan show with the Beatles this weekend. The highlight was two songs from OLIVER! with the original cast including future Monkee Davy Jones.

Two Liza items: she is rumored to be co-starring with Hugh Jackman in the movie version of ALW's SUNSET BOULEVARD; and she is dating Mario Cantone, former children's television host who somehow keeps getting jobs on television and Broadway despite no talent whatsoever. Does Liza ever date straight men?

Jennifer · « **Reply #41 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:25:46 AM »

Happy Monday everyone!

Just finished reading all the posts and notes.

BK, hope your phone call goes well today and that your mood gets better (it seems to have improved).

I am sort of in a mood myself today. THE GUY is mad at me and I feel so badly. And just when things were taking a dramatic turn for the better. I checked up on something and then told him about it, instead of just asking him directly in the first place. I've apologized (does anyone know a good way to say you're sorry?). I hate that I don't trust him sometimes. But sometimes when you've been hurt (by that person before) it is just SO hard to trust them completely again (although I want to work on this with him).

Oy, sorry for rambling. I could use some good vibes to hopefully resolve this.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #42 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:30:46 AM »

Did any DRs get to see this? Comments?

From clever detective to tough granny
Angela Lansbury returns to TV

Excerpts from CNN Interview

NEW YORK (AP) -- Angela Lansbury read the script three times while puzzling whether to accept the part of 84-year-old, tough-as-nails Granny in "The Blackwater Lightship."

Then John Erman, the director of this "Hallmark Hall of Fame" production, made his pitch.

"He called me at my house in Ireland, which is where the film is set," Lansbury recalls with a smile, "while I was standing at my stove. He said, 'Angie, if you have the guts, you should do this role.' And I said, 'Well, you know me, and I do have the guts.' "

Despite their proximity in age, Granny proves a gutsy leap for the 78-year-old Lansbury, almost unrecognizable in the gray, thatchlike wig and dowdy garb the role demanded.

der Brucer (ya gotta love gustsy broads!)

TCB · « **Reply #43 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:31:20 AM »

Ben -- It took me the longest time to figure out what WEHT meant. Still, you are correct about these unexcused absences. Hapgood is undoubtedly enjoying being a college man; and, for the moment, has forgotten his parents and boyhood friends, in addition to all of us here.

I am not sure that either LC or Jason has any such excuses. Perhaps, Jason has formed his own touring company of Seusical, The Musical; and has taken LC with him on tour?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #44 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:39:46 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on February 09, 2004, 10:25:46 AM

...(does anyone know a good way to say you're sorry..

Try Chocolate (probably would work on JoseS)

If that fails, try Caviar (works for me)

If all else fails, give an Autographed Copy of "Benjamin Kritzer"

der Brucer

Jennifer · « **Reply #45 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:44:56 AM »

I LOVE Sondheim. Here are SOME of my favorites:

Pretty women, SWEENEY
Hello Little Girl, ITW
Getting Married Today, Marry me a Little, Barcelona: Company
The Road you Didn't Take, Follies
Everyday A little Death, Weekend in the Country: ALNM
Anyone Can Whistle

I also love Not a Day Goes by.

Jennifer · « **Reply #46 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:47:44 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on February 09, 2004, 10:39:46 AM

Try Chocolate (probably would work on JoseS)

If that fails, try Caviar (works for me)

If all else fails, give an Autographed Copy of "Benjamin Kritzer"

Hmm bribery. I like it

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #47 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:52:02 AM »

BK is not the only one wrestling with gird (not to be confused with GERD of Nexium fame):

Excerpt from a Bill Tammeus column in Jewish World Review:

IT'S sad to ponder the end of the universe. But we must gird up our loins.

(Girding up their loins was what people always did in the olden days when affliction, alarm and anxiety blossomed like dandelions on the suburban lawns of ancient Greece. "Gird" is the root word of girdle. Loin is the root word of loiter. So girding up one's loins means wearing a girdle while lollygagging about in shopping malls. Remember that.) (Remember what?)

der Brucer (he even writes like BK!)

TCB · « **Reply #48 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:54:09 AM »

I have always enjoyed Mandy. I have mentioned before at this site that I thought that Mandy's performance was the only redeemable part of the Broadway production of Velveeta. I think I have all of his CDs, except the one in Yiddish, and although he can be (what was MattH's polite term?) “over the top” I guess I can endure his flights of fancy, because, at other times, he can be so incredible.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #49 on:** February 09, 2004, 10:59:39 AM »

Sorry, I don't appreciate Mr Patinkin - although I like the movie about his battleship.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #50 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:00:07 AM »

I think Liza Minelli as Norma Desmond would be disastrous. Even though I'm not a fan of the musical (nor much of Sir Andrew's), the role still requires an actress, not the freakish cartoon Minelli has become.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #51 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:00:17 AM »

Some here may not be familiar with Forbidden Broadway's send-up of Mandy's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow": "Somewhat Overindulgent". Well, you should be.

Donald · « **Reply #52 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:01:39 AM »

The brand new BROADWAY RADIO SHOW is now up and running.....this week we "put together' EVITA

Enjoy!

William F. Orr · « **Reply #53 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:02:12 AM »

Sunset Boulevard? Norma Desmond? No contest. Carol Burnette.

Jay · « **Reply #54 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:03:50 AM »

When Mandy Patinkin goes over the top, he brings a certain conviction and/or credibility to his actions that sometimes/oftentimes is absent when other folks, such as Nathan Lane and Robin Williams, go into their own versions of "over the top." It's a case of genuine extreme behavior to make a comedic or dramatic point vs. any antic will do so long as it draws attention.

I know a lot of people dislike Patinkin's turn in the NY Philharmonic recording of Follies, but I think it contributes greatly to the overall electricity of that entire performance.

MBarnum · « **Reply #55 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:04:03 AM »

Maya, is also still missing.

And whatever happened to those new DRs. They come, make a post or two, and then disappear into the night!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #56 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:07:26 AM »

DR WEL - that was a send-up??!!!!

Jay · « **Reply #57 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:08:24 AM »

I have said for some time that Miss Babs would make a fine musical Norma Desmond if, and only if, she did not direct the film herself. Anybody here for Mike Nichols at the helm? Rob Marshall?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #58 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:13:16 AM »

We're talking about movies - huh....well then I think the musical SUNSET BOULEVARD will be pitched with the following cast:

Norma: Madonna
Joe Gllis: Justin Timberlake
Max: Dave Matthews
Betty: Brittany Spears

OR to go in a different direction:

Norma: Ann-Margret
Joe: Christian Bale
Max: Pat Boone
Betty: Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer · « **Reply #59 on:** February 09, 2004, 11:14:56 AM »

I saw on Page Six where it said Liza was wanted to play Norma in the movie version of Sunset. But the Mario Cantone thing was a joke, right? I mean he impersonates her!

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