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[Druxy]

Actually, I don't know what I'm going to watch this weekend.

I've been watching the new restored set of THE GODFATHER.

The last 2 nights we watched GODFATHER I & II, so tonight we'll watch III.  

Beyond that, I haven't a clue...though there are many possibilities.

BTW; The new set of THE GODFATHER looks terrific.

[singdaw]

Eeek!  

***FINANCIAL VIBES***[/size][/color]

to bk!!![/size][/color]

[singdaw]

DR Jeanne - very mysterious and interesting news about a possible book!!??!!

[singdaw]

DR Ginny - so very happy and glad to hear that you're back in the swing of things!!!!  

[Kerry]

Glad to hear of the good news for some, sending out good vibes to everyone (4-legged and 2-legged) who need them.

I want pics of Singdaw in a blue and white thong!

[bk]

Cason talked to a bunch of people.  The fellow who made the deal with him - wait for it - has left the company.  But he got a nice lady who asked him to send her a note with the history, and she's going to take it to her superiors to try to get them to waive the closing the account fee.  But Cason also got the collections person to agree to settle for half, should the woman not be able to get the fee waived.  So, we'll see.  The collections people can't do anything for forty-five days anyway - that's how long the remedy period is.  I asked them a simple question - was anyone at anytime going to call us and apprise us of this situation.  They had no answer.

[George]

I don't know if this was a question of "so soon?" or "why'd it take so long?" but:  [title of show] to Close On Broadway in October.

[Ginny]

Off to bed to read for a while - because I can!

'night!

[bk]

Then we shipped back the terminal they'd sent us.  So we'll see.  Cason then left and I got a call from the authors who I've been advising about NYMF.  They are, to put it kindly, in hell.  There hasn't been one press release for their show, which opens in twelve days.  They are being treated like the runt of the litter.  They lost their first director, their second director, and now they have some guy who's the husband of a known musical theater actress - he's never directed before.  The musical director is holding them up for all sorts of things he wants down the line, and, of course, they lost one actor, who they've now replaced.  Apparently  Mr. Wannabe Director doesn't know the first thing about staging or stage pictures, so the choreographer has to move people around in the scenes.  

They're very appreciative of my advice and the believe it because everything I've told them, yea AND nay, has come to pass.

[Kerry]

Off to bed to read for a while - because I can!

'night!

'night Ginny.  Enjoy the luxuries of the 20th and 21st centuries.

[FJL]

BK - I'm confused.  Their show is 12 days away. They seem to be calling themselves the "producers.'   Who (or is it whom) are they expecting will send out these press releases?  Or do they mean they haven't bee included in any of the NYMF press releases yet?  With twelve days to go, they have plenty of time to, as Jose says, make their own luck.  As you may recall. the shows that did not have name stars had to push hard to be part of NYMF's publicity machine, and had to do much on their own.

[Jane]

We are about to watch NEXT, with Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel and Peter Falk.  I'm hoping the action will wake me up.

'night

[JoseSPiano]

Good Evening!

I'm back from seeing Bonnie & Clyde with DR elmore...

We liked it.  We really liked it.

*I'll leave it up to DR elmore to share his opinions and tales from this evening.  -And, yes, there are tales.

[JoseSPiano]

bk - Is there a reason you hadn't shipped back the terminal before now?

[JoseSPiano]

Then we shipped back the terminal they'd sent us.  So we'll see.  Cason then left and I got a call from the authors who I've been advising about NYMF.  They are, to put it kindly, in hell.  There hasn't been one press release for their show, which opens in twelve days.  They are being treated like the runt of the litter.  They lost their first director, their second director, and now they have some guy who's the husband of a known musical theater actress - he's never directed before.  The musical director is holding them up for all sorts of things he wants down the line, and, of course, they lost one actor, who they've now replaced.  Apparently  Mr. Wannabe Director doesn't know the first thing about staging or stage pictures, so the choreographer has to move people around in the scenes.  

They're very appreciative of my advice and the believe it because everything I've told them, yea AND nay, has come to pass.

Well... Now that I've completed my usual September obligations - which is why I couldn't do a NYMF show in the first place (again)... well... I know something about pretty stage pictures.  

[Cillaliz]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELMORE!!!!

[Edisaurus]

Wow!  You get diagnosed with diabetes and someone sends you Godiva chocolates?    

Sugar-free, DR Ron. Our Elmore is sweet enough on his own!

[Edisaurus]

Congratulations on seeing the light, Ginny!

[Edisaurus]

bk - Is there a reason you hadn't shipped back the terminal before now?

The Terminal...sounds like a good subject for a song...

[Edisaurus]

I spent the morning at GSU's Johnny Mercer archives. Boy, there's a wealth of material there. Right now I'm loading an unfinished film that Johnny's son put together about him. That man was a genius!

[Cillaliz]

DR Ginny - You're out of the woods, you're out of the dark, you're out of the night.....

Congrats!  

[elmore3003]

Thank you, DRs Kerry and td, for the birthday felicitations! It's been a great day: two musicals that are polar opposites in terms of tone and both equally wonderful, a visit with a wonderful friend, our DR Jose, several phone messages includng one from Lady M's husband, several wonderful gifts, and a lot of birthday wishes here and on Facebook, and Peter Filichia's at the intermission of BONNIE & CLYDE.

As to the country western musical, it has great potential: a fun score, very funny book and lyrics, a wonderful cast, very good choreography with lots of funny musical staging and excellent direction by Mark Waldrop.  My friend Jason Wooten, with whom I worked and last saw at Goodspeed in 1998, was a wonderful Clyde Barrow, and Julie Johnson, a large lady of indeterminate age and very abundant talent, whom I met tonight, was a fantastic eath mother as Bonnie's surrogate mother. I really think this show has a good future.  Julie and I had never met before but we have several friends in common, including Ron Raines and Steve Jones; I had seen her in a reading of NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and at the York in the Schmidt-Jones musical ROADSIDE. Last March I scored "Maybe This Time" for a Lyric Stage benefit in Dallas, so it was nice to finally meet.

Time for my meds.

[Cillaliz]

I had a nice day at my parents' place.  We talked, I fixed my dad's printer (seems it doesn't work without ink) helped some friends rake up acorns in their yards, sipped tea while hanging out on the new porch and new room and went to my favorite fried chicken place for dinner.   A good time was had by all

[Cillaliz]

Last summer my parents came to visit and mom forgot to bring the birthday cake she bought for me.  Well, when she got home she put it in the freezer and since today was the first time I've been there since my birthday...she took it out and gave it to me to bring home.  I haven't had any yet

[elmore3003]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELMORE!!!!

Thank you, dear!

[FJL]

I thought I'd posted Milla's Today's Birthdays for Sept. 19 but I'm a little scattered today because of tax work.    Anyone we know on the list?




Today's Birthdays 9/19

Posted by:   do_re_milla 09:53 pm EDT 09/18/08

Frances Farmer 09/19/1913 - Aug 1, 1970 Wife of Leif Erickson (2/8/36 - 6/12/42) divorced, performer, source material - GOLDEN BOY (Robert Lewis, Elia Kazan); QUIET CITY (music by Aaron Copeland); THUNDER ROCK (Lee J. Cobb); tv's & film's SON OF FURY; Come & Get It; The Party Crashers; Frances Farmer Presents

Rosemary Harris 09/19/1927 performer; mother of Jennifer Ehle, wife of John Ehle (1967 - present), Ellis Rabb (December 4, 1959 - 1967) divorced - THE LION IN WINTER (Robert Walken, Chris Walken); 1966 SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (Helen Hayes); OLD TIMES (Robert Shaw); PACK OF LIES (Patrick McGoohan [debut], Dana Ivy, Tracey Pollan); tv's & film's Spiderman 1, 2 & 3; Being Julia; Heartbreak House; The Chisholms; The Royal Family; Holocaust; Blithe Spirit

William Hickey 09/19/1928 - Jun 29, 1997 performer; Made Broadway debut as walk-in in Bernard Shaw's SAINT JOAN (1951 production, starring Hagen). His most important contribution to the arts, however, remains his teaching career at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village, founded by Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. George Segal, Sandy Dennis, and Barbra Streisand all studied under him. - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE (Kevin McCarthy, Marsha Mason); MORNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Colleen Dewhurst), 1986 ARSENIC & OLD LACE (Tony Roberts, Jean Stapleton, Abe Vigoda); tv's & film's Prizzi's Honor; Baby Talk; The Name of the Rose; Androcles and the Lion

David McCallum 09/19/1933 performer - THE FLIP SIDE; AMADEUS (David Suchet); tv's THE MAN FROM UNCLE; NCIS

‘Mama’ Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen) 9/19/1941 - 7/29/1974 performer, singer: group: The Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin’, Monday, Monday, Creeque Alley; solo: Dream a Little Dream of Me, Make Your Own Kind of Music; group: The Mugwumps; tv's DR. KILDARE, SMOTHERS BROTHERS

Jeremy Irons 09/19/1948 performer, Husband of Sinéad Cusack (1978 - present), son-in-law of Cyril Cusack; began by busking, and then joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School His first break came in the musical Godspell, when he played John the Baptist alongside David Essex. - THE REAL THING (Glenn Close, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon); tv's BRIDESHEAD REVISITED; film's REVERSAL OF FORTUNE; Being Julia; Lolita; Stealing Beauty; The Lion King; The Pallisers; Nijinsky; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Inland Empire

Larry Moore 9/19/1946 - noted orchestrator for theater and recordings - his work includes BRAIN FROM PLANET X, & the following has been heard in the Goodspeed Opera productions of OH, KAY! and THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER, The New York State Theatre Institute's productions of A TALE OF CINDERELLA (also on Videocassette and compact disc) and THE SNOW QUEEN, as well as numerous recordings including the LOST IN BOSTON series, UNSUNG SONDHEIM, SONDHEIM AT THE MOVIES, the UNSUNG MUSICALS series, LIZ CALLAWAY ON AND OFF BROADWAY, and Jason Graae's YOU'RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE.

Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) 09/19/1949 performer, wife of Leigh Lawson - MY 1 & ONLY (Tommy Tune, Roscoe Lee Browne & Roscoe's replacement Judd Jones); tv's & film's The Boy Friend; Twiggy; The Blues Brothers; Madame Sousatzka; Young Charlie Chaplin; Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Ernie Sabella 09/19/1949 performer - Curtains; 2005 Sweet Charity; 2002 Man of La Mancha; 1996 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; 1992 Guys and Dolls; 1982 Little Johnny Jones; 1976 The Robber Bridegroom

Rex Smith 09/19/1956 performer - PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Kevin Kline, Estelle Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, Alix Korey); Grease; tv's & film's Pirates of Penzance; Sooner Or Later (Judd Hirsch, Barbara Feldon, Morey Amsterdam, Vivian Blaine, Lynn Redgrave); As the World Turns; Pope Dreams

Carolyn McCormick 09/19/1959 performer; wife of Byron Jennings - Dinner Party [replacement]; 2002 Private Lives; 2008 Equus; tv's & film's Law & Order; Judging Amy; Enemy Mine; Homicide Life On The Street

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1904 Julian Eltinge, the famed female impersonator, makes his Broadway debut today in Mr. Wix of Wickham, the unsuccessful musical at the Bijou Theatre. The now legendary Jerome Kern, who was only 19 years old, wrote some of the songs for this musical. Kern goes on to write music for Show Boat and Sunny during his long, successful career. Also on this date, E. H. Sothern, Shakespeare actor extraordinaire, stars in the Chicago production of Romeo and Juliet.

1935 At Home Abroad with Beatrice Lillie, John Payne, Eleanor Powell, Craig Stevens, Ethel Waters, Vera Allen

1996 Skylight with Michael Gambon

ON THIS DATE IN:

1970 - She could turn the world on with her smile. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was seen for the first time on CBS-TV. It became one of the most successful television shows of the 1970s. The last, original episode aired on September 3, 1977.

1974 The Winter Garden Theatre is evacuated tonight due to a bomb threat, even though it is the scheduled first preview for the revival of Gypsy. Gene Brown's book, "Showtime," notes that librettist Arthur Laurents joked with the audience during the break that acclaimed star Angela Lansbury was quite a "bombshell" herself. The show resumes shortly after the evacuation.

2004 The television adaptation of Tony Kushner's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning drama Angels in America wins a record 11 Emmy Awards.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

Milla

[Matt H.]

I like this film, too! Why isn't it on DVD? Or is it?

It is; I have it. And as I recall it looks very nice. But I haven't revisited it in quite some time.

[Cillaliz]

Thank you, dear!

[Matt H.]

I spent a great portion of the evening watching THE GODFATHER PART III. Parts of it are as good as the first two films, but on the whole, it's just not quite as compelling. The story also seems a bit unwieldy with all the Catholic Church finances and such.

And the actor/singer who plays Tony is adorable.

[Matt H.]

Then I started on the bonus features. None of the newest ones compiled for this new restoration are all that good except maybe Robert Harris' piece on the restoration.

One featurette had the cameras at the premiere of CLOVERFIELD asking the cast and crew and friends of that production what they thought of THE GODFATHER. Why? Just because both were produced by Paramount?