Topic: MY THIRD WIND (Read 40171 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #30 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:41:31 AM »

I'll watch a couple more episodes of FRINGE to see if the hourlong version is any tighter. As I said last night, it felt padded last night. Now that we have a lot of talky exposition out of the way, let's see where they go with it.

Matt H. · « **Reply #31 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:44:54 AM »

Page Two Munchkinland Dance!!!

Ginny · « **Reply #32 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:46:43 AM »

Wednesday morning greetings! Just stopping by for a minute between meetings. My day is solid meetings, 8:30am-4pm, and I'm hosting and speaking at the one in the middle.

Matt H. · « **Reply #33 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:46:44 AM »

I was planning to watch and write-up THE LOVE GURU this afternoon but the UPS man just left the 2-disc IRON MAN set on my doorstep, so I'm doing that instead. I think my boss would be much happier about my giving priority to one of the year's biggest hits rather than to one of the year's biggest flops.

Matt H. · « **Reply #34 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:47:36 AM »

On TV tonight:

BONES!!

PROJECT RUNWAY!

Matt H. · « **Reply #35 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:49:54 AM »

Because there is almost four fours of bonus material with IRON MAN, I'm not sure I'll get to either one of tonight's TV show musts. Luckily, stuff on the DVR doesn't disappear overnight, so I do have time to watch it.

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #36 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:55:06 AM »

Quote from: bk on September 10, 2008, 12:11:45 AM

And the word of the day is: LEGATION!

And The Song Of The Day Is: THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTES' ON THE BALL

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #37 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:56:57 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 10, 2008, 05:09:44 AM

OK, sorry - but does anyone seriously believe that The Large Hadron Collider can create a black hole that will swallow the earth?

Oh, yes, I forgot: the people that believe that they can control people's minds by banning books probably do.

Probably do what? Control people's minds by banning books?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #38 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:57:43 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 10, 2008, 01:28:17 AM

How ~~Green~~ Blue Was My Jose's Valley...

I thought Jose's friend was the guy who played the twins.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #39 on:** September 10, 2008, 07:59:41 AM »

Quote from: Michael S on September 10, 2008, 03:17:15 AM

RE: The $14,99 Blu Ray sale.

The ones that I bought were all Warner Bros. So Warners Must being doing some kind of promo if other major chains like Virgin and J & R are doing it.

It's too bad the BD player manufacturers aren't ALSO having a sale. It's one thing to sell, sell, sell BD discs. But what are they doing to ATTRACT people to actually buy a BD player?

FJL · « **Reply #40 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:00:32 AM »

Still haven't caught up completely form my D.C. trip, but I am doing close to my best to catch up.

FJL · « **Reply #41 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:02:22 AM »

Speaking of BD players, I'm expecting to go to Princeton, NJ tonight to see B.D. Wong in Skip's show Herringbone at the McCarter, so I'll probably be E&T (Entertained & Traveled) tonight as well.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #42 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:03:04 AM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on September 10, 2008, 03:51:56 AM

Here's a question for Ask BK Day:

San Francisco is supposed to have one of the most promenent gay communities in the United States, in the world in fact.

So why is it that there has never been a television series set in San Francisco that has had a prominent gay character?

I mean, look back: We've had everything from The Streets of San Francisco to Ironside to The Doris Day Show. From Full House to Dharma & Greg to Nash Bridges. From Charmed to Women's Murder Club to That's So Raven.

From what I read went on behind the scenes at "Dharma & Greg", I think Thomas Gibson's diva tirades (especially directed at "guests" on the show) pretty much sated any of the producers' interests in having an actual gay character on that show.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #43 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:03:46 AM »

I'm back from my walk and a trip to the market. The laundry is in the dryers, and I have to tidy and vacuum the apartment before I can settle down to work.

I just finished an interesting, if rather dry, book given the subject, THE GRAND HORIZONTALES, a study of four famous Parisian courtesans of the mid-19th Century during the Second Empire, the most famous being Marie Duplessis who inspired the novel, play and film versions of CAMILLE, and Cora Pearl, the British tart who made her Parisian stage debut as Cupid in a revival of Offenbach's Orphee aux enfers. I prefer Zola's novel NANA, loosely based on the creer of Offenbach's star Hortense Schneider, which is anything but dry in its study of Second Empire prostitution, the demimonde, a lot of stupid but very wealthy sex addicts who bankrupt themselves and the whores who treat them like crap.

bk · « **Reply #44 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:04:55 AM »

Quote from: Michael S on September 10, 2008, 03:38:47 AM

ASK BK:

Do you plan to see the opera version of The Fly (Based on the version that DR Pogue wrote)

I would like to if I could get good seats and not pay the ridiculously expensive prices they charge.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #45 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:05:38 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on September 10, 2008, 08:03:04 AM

From what I read went on behind the scenes at "Dharma & Greg", I think Thomas Gibson's diva tirades (especially directed at "guests" on the show) pretty much sated any of the producers' interests in having an actual gay character on that show.

I met him a couple of times at the Drama Book Shop and backstage at a TWELFTH NIGHT in Central Park. I didn't find him a nice person at all.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #46 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:06:03 AM »

Quote from: JMK on September 10, 2008, 07:17:05 AM

I was much more impressed with the Cinerama Adventure extra on HTWWW--a loving tribute to the process. I'm not sure if I actually saw anything in a "real" Cinerama theater. I remember distinctly my sisters taking me to The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (I still remember a scene with a dizzy Russ Tamblyn trying to walk over a footbridge with tons of holes in it), but I was so young I can't remember if it was Cinerama or a flat rerelease.

It need not have been a re-release. There were only a handful of Cinerama theaters in 1962, so you may have seen the wider first-run CinemaScope version.

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:06:37 AM »

I was hoping to sleep a little later but alas I did not.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #48 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:07:18 AM »

THE FLY is in LA?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:07:18 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 10, 2008, 08:05:38 AM

I met him a couple of times at the Drama Book Shop and backstage at a TWELFTH NIGHT in Central Park. I didn't find him a nice person at all.

Of course, he was much younger then. I thought the character he played in TALES OF THE CITY was pretty close to his real persona.

bk · « **Reply #50 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:07:32 AM »

Didn't Ironside take place in San Francisco?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #51 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:07:44 AM »

Quote from: JRand58 on September 10, 2008, 08:07:18 AM

THE FLY is in LA?

That's the buzz.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #52 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:08:00 AM »

Congrats to DR MATTHEW on his home...and here's hoping closing is complete before your Vacation?

Congrats to DRS JED & ANN on becoming parents....

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #53 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:10:10 AM »

bk - Do you want to see "The Fly"?

singdaw · « **Reply #54 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:10:37 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on September 10, 2008, 07:57:43 AM

I thought Jose's friend was the guy who played the twins.

Oh.

Perhaps! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. $:-\$

singdaw · « **Reply #55 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:11:51 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on September 10, 2008, 07:56:57 AM

Probably do what?

Probably believe that the earth will be swallowed by a black hole created by the particle collider.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:12:06 AM »

I thought "Fringe" an exceptional first (pilot) episode to a new series.

Those 90 minutes flew by for me. Primarily, however, the show's M.O. was, to me, an introduction to the characters and a set-up for the female lead's introduction to a more secretive investigation branch of the federal government. Scully and Mulder never found themselves in such an adversarial relationship as those two last night.

As it is, the "no way" moments some are commenting upon are intentional. Most people simply won't believe that anything like what this show will portray could be possible, but that is also entirely the point -- that science has moved so far ahead of what most of us can comprehend that it has become impossible to regulate. Thus, the necessity to investigate and try to prevent unspeakable horrors being unleased upon an unsuspecting public. I was very pleased with the character set-ups, and I think this show might have legs.

Like Jose, I will continue to watch for now.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #57 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:14:46 AM »

Nice cool day today.

I watched SILK last night, a movie with Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt...romantic drama with some nice performances and an interesting story.

Then I watched a movie I had never even heard of:
SOUTHLAND TALES with Duane THE ROCK Johnson, Sean William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar and a bunch of familar TV people.

Released in 2006, it's a graphic novel type of movie about nuclear war and the 2008 election.....hard to explain, but if you like the action movie with lots of killing and cussing, you might like this.

It's all about a rip in the time/space fabric and what happens if one person exists twice in the same time frame...and well, as Duane tells Bai Ling: "If that happens, the 4th dimension will collapse in on itself, you dumb bitch."

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #58 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:15:59 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 10, 2008, 08:07:18 AM

Of course, he was much younger then. I thought the character he played in TALES OF THE CITY was pretty close to his real persona.

I've read "that", too!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #59 on:** September 10, 2008, 08:16:18 AM »

True dat about the curved screen, DR MATTH...but sometimes watching them flat is creepy.

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