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[George]

Topic of the Day (all of these have been mentioned already):

9 to 5
Amadeus
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
A Christmas Story
The Dark Crystal
E.T.
Educating Rita
Fame
For Your Eyes Only
Ghostbusters
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
The Last Starfighter
The Little Mermaid
Little Shop of Horrors
Moonstruck
On Golden Pond
Poltergeist
The Princess Bride
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Reds
The Return of Martin Guerre
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Journey Home
Tootsie
Tron
Victor/Victoria
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

and:

XANADU!!

[bk]

Some of my favorite 80s movies include Once Upon A Time In America, My Life As A Dog, Poltergeist, E.T., Back to the Future (often overlooked because of its popularity - a practically perfect motion picture), Body Heat, and some others.

[DearReaderLaura]

You still haven't posted your trial date!

der Brucer

They didn't find any evidence.

[DERBRUCER]

They didn't find any evidence.

I can offer them some photos:





der Brucer

[Jane]

I always considered AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN Debra Winger’s “breakout” role.  I thought she was terrific in that and stole the show.  

I was very disappointed she did not receive an Oscar for SHADOWLANDS, especially since I did not feel the winner deserved it.

[JoseSPiano]

Good Evening!

Greetings from Uptown/West Harlem/Hamilton Heights/Heritage Heights/Vinergar Hill/Sugar Hill... or whatever the real estate agents are calling my 'hood lately in order to keep the prices where they are.  

[JoseSPiano]

Since I did not get a chance to leave the building today - they brought lunch in for us - I went ahead and walked from 26th Street up to Columbus Circle/59th Street.  Various people throughout the day kept telling us that it was hot, humid and ugly outside, but by the time I stepped out onto the sidewalk, it didn't feel all that bad.  Of course, since I had to wear a jacket in the rehearsal studio in order not to freeze, I may just been defrosting.  In any case...

I was going to walk a few more blocks up to 72nd Street to grab the train, but I could feel a blister developing on my right foot.  Thankfully(?), once I got home, I found that it was not a blister.  It was just a bad "rub" due to a hole in my sock.  But it still feels nice to have my feet up right now.  

[JoseSPiano]

I rather see Travolta as Frau Schmidt.

I rather see him as The Mountain.

[JoseSPiano]

They didn't find any evidence.

<BURP>

[TCB]

I use XP Home at home and XP Professional at the office. The reason I didn't switch to Vista was simple. I didn't want to search around for drivers and possibly have to buy a new printer and scanner just because I was buying a new operating system. I also have programs that will not work on Vista and I'm not going to change programs just to get bells and whistles in an operating system. Too many times software companies decide to change and "upgrade" their programs based on their own sense of what the customer wants without talking to the users and you end up with a good program being destroyed in the process. It's why I don't use Quicken anymore. I don't use Norton anymore. I won't use I-Tunes. If I want to download or rip music I don't need I-(Take-Over-Your-Computer)Tunes to do that. I'm smart enough to organize my music (besides I don't keep all my music on my computer, hard drives fail and if that's where you store your music, unless you are backed up from here to the moon....................

I was, but I am better today.

[DearReaderLaura]

The boy is a minor, and the crawdads were not actually in my possession when the game wardens were here.

[JoseSPiano]

So, all in all, it was a good three days of auditions.  I did have quite a nice "highlight" yesterday.  A "Broadway veteran" came in to audition for one of the roles; as soon as I saw his picture and resume, I actually got a little star struck.  He has been in the original casts of some landmark shows over the past 30 years, and even the production team just marveled at his resume.

He went ahead and brought in one of his signature songs.  He was in the ensemble of the original cast of a show, and understudied and eventually took over one of the supporting roles.  -And he still had the original copy of the music that he was given almost 30 years ago!  It was just soooooo cool playing for him, and it was even cooler when he paid me a very nice compliment after we had finished.  -And we had a nice chat today when he came back for his callback too.  It was literally like playing for and talking to a bit of "Broadway History" to me.

*And, yes, I am purposely leaving out his name since I feel I would need his permission to post his name on this public site.  We were meeting at an audition - a business meeting, as it were - and not at a social gathering. However, I guess I could post the show and the song he sang - sort of.  -And the you can Google away to satisfy your curiosity if you so desire.  The show (sort of): The First Lady of Argentina.  The song (sort of): "The Tango Singer's Only Hit".  

[Jane]

Bruce, you might appreciated the following headline:

Salmonella probe likened to `Keystone Kops'
 

[JoseSPiano]

The boy is a minor, and the crawdads were not actually in my possession when the game wardens were here.

Had you passed them off by then?

[DearReaderLaura]

The evidence was long gone.

[Cillaliz]

Great coverage on the 6:00 PM news.  Links will be posted when they are up.

[George]

So, all in all, it was a good three days of auditions.  I did have quite a nice "highlight" yesterday.  A "Broadway veteran" came in to audition for one of the roles; as soon as I saw his picture and resume, I actually got a little star struck.  He has been in the original casts of some landmark shows over the past 30 years, and even the production team just marveled at his resume.

He went ahead and brought in one of his signature songs.  He was in the ensemble of the original cast of a show, and understudied and eventually took over one of the supporting roles.  -And he still had the original copy of the music that he was given almost 30 years ago!  It was just soooooo cool playing for him, and it was even cooler when he paid me a very nice compliment after we had finished.  -And we had a nice chat today when he came back for his callback too.  It was literally like playing for and talking to a bit of "Broadway History" to me.

*And, yes, I am purposely leaving out his name since I feel I would need his permission to post his name on this public site.  We were meeting at an audition - a business meeting, as it were - and not at a social gathering. However, I guess I could post the show and the song he sang - sort of.  -And the you can Google away to satisfy your curiosity if you so desire.  The show (sort of): The First Lady of Argentina.  The song (sort of): "The Tango Singer's Only Hit".  

That's pretty cool, Jose!  

And blind items are so much nicer when very obvious (to me, at least) clews are given.

[DERBRUCER]

The boy is a minor, and the crawdads were not actually in my possession when the game wardens were here.

So, you're a regular Female Fagan!

der Brucer

[TCB]

I have a tag at the end of a scene in Singin In The Rain - after R.F. pulls Lina off her perch using the microphone wire, I say: "Cut! Dammit" then I throw my hat down on the floor and stomp on it.

Every night this week,  the light person has done the black out when I say "Cut" and has been given the note, wait until the hat hits the floor.  Again last night, blackout was even earlier.  I said: "I'm not moving until I get some light and do my bit."  I finally did but said: "How hard can it be to run the lights?  I've done it."

Then we had to carry our own chairs out for the "movie" scene.  Nothing was happening and the stage lights were up for the short crossover, and we were waiting.  The screen started to come down while the lights were up, but our cue is the screen so we came out with our chairs.  The stage manager started screaming at us that we were wrong wrong wrong.

I said: "We thought our cue was the screen we were waiting back there forever."

Then he started really yelling at ME that I had no business making the light person cry and that my behavior was uncalled for and they were having some problems.  Hmmmmm......all they had to do was tell us we were holding while they did something.  We were just trying to do what we were supposed to.....

Dumb A$$ girl doing the lights is "special" and has no business in that position - she screwed up THE SUNSHINE BOYS royally last year.

Of course then the director got into it and told us both to be quiet.  And at intermission, I apologized to the stage manager, but he said NOTHING about an apology to me....NOTHING.

ASS - I hate this show and that damned theatre and I hate to think about going to rehearsal tonight.  You work your damned heart out spend HOURS and $$$ doing it, and idiots who should only be allowed in the theatre if they buy a full priced ticket think they can run your life.

And that's what I'm doing today.  Fuming.  Tonight I won't go early, I won't do the other things I do to help, I won't talk and encourage anyone, I will do my part, and come home.

You will not!  You'll go out there and by a trooper -  just like always!

[JoseSPiano]

DR JRand - Just do the professional, Broadway thing:  Call out.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Cillaliz - Glad to hear that your trial proceedings(?) went well.  Does this mean you can take it easy this weekend?

[TCB]

On another note (and NOT related to the size of DRLaura's huge apricots) the ceramiic cock on top of  my ice box rattled several times through the middle of the night!

Oh honey, you should really consider getting a refrigerator.

[JoseSPiano]

Welcome back, DR Jane!

Did DD Sherlock like living "in the dark" for a couple of hours?

[JoseSPiano]

Things are a little weird here at work. This post house has been in business since the '70's. I knew something was up, but today it is official: the owner is selling the business to new owners, who have "big plans". I hope we can continue to work on THE CLOSER here, because it would be a major pain to relocate the media, plus we have a great work flow here!

I hope everyone gets to keep their jobs. I can't blame the owner--his wife passed away suddenly eariler this year and now he just wants to be near his kids and grandkids. I hope he enjoys his retirement; it is well-earned.

Did the new owners give you any idea of when their "big plans" will be unveiled?

-And I hope you and your co-workers get to keep their jobs too.

[TCB]

Well, in the late 60's I was in Palos Verdes.    

Before that, I was the proverbial gleam in my father's eye, I suppose...

You disgust me.

[bk]

I've been doing some magazine reading.  I'm sort of tired.  Don't really know why.

[bk]

I was right about tomatoes not being the cause - right weeks and weeks ago - not that anyone believed me.  $200 million later, everyone pretty much has said it was never tomatoes, although those twits who initially called it refuse to stop saying "We still THINK they might have been the cause at the beginning."  Riiiiiight.  Just admit you were stupid, jumped the gun, and move on and figure out the REAL cause.

[MBarnum]

Paleontologist Jack Horner (I know, he must have been mercilessly teased as a child) says his analysis of everything that has been discovered on T-Rex up until now indicates that he wasn't very fast, wasn't a major predator and was, most likely, a scavenger.

T-Rex had very small arms...and a rather tenuous "balance" that would have precluded him ever attacking, much less holding his own, against another creature.  In fact, Horner says (and showed via computer animation), if any T-Rex ever lost his balance and fell over, chances are slim he'd ever have been able to get up.

Well...everything I know about Paleontology I learned from the movie Dinosaurus...and it contradicts all that this scientist says.

I'm just saying'









See how the T Rex is holding that lady? She didn't just jump up into his arms you know!

[DearReaderLaura]

I agree with MBarnum.

[DERBRUCER]

I was right about tomatoes not being the cause - right weeks and weeks ago - not that anyone believed me.

And why would anyone have believed you? Neither you, nor anyone else it seems, had any evidence that tomatoes were NOT the cause. There still is NO evidence that tomatoes were not the cause. You are worse than the CDC when it comes to proffering opinion without substantiating facts.

der Brucer