Topic: THE BROKEN RECORD REDUX (Read 84174 times)

bk · « **on:** September 27, 2008, 12:23:00 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes sounded like a broken record redux, and now it is time for you to post until the broken cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:26:15 AM »

And the word of the day is: ATRETIC!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:55:24 AM »

Topic of the Day...I think that these are the only George C. Scott movies that I've seen:

Anatomy of a Murder
A Christmas Carol (made for TV)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
They Might Be Giants

George · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:59:28 AM »

Today at noon, I'll be at a local theater (cinema) watching the hi-def broadcast of the final performance of the Broadway production of Rent.

I know I'd see it more than once if it didn't cost $21 ($20 + $1 fee).

George · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2008, 01:02:24 AM »

I'm going with my friend Margo, who really wants to see it, also.

Has anyone else seen this...is anyone else planning on seeing this broadcast of Rent?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2008, 01:05:19 AM »

TOD

Beauty and the Beast (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
(Stage) Sly Fox

der Brucer

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** September 27, 2008, 01:36:33 AM »

Quote from: George on September 27, 2008, 01:02:24 AM

...is anyone else planning on seeing this broadcast of Rent?

DR George - I am going today at 1:00 PM.

I still haven't seen firm confirmation on whether or not this will ultimately be released on DVD. But most of the reaction has been extremely positive regarding the quality of the final product.

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** September 27, 2008, 01:38:55 AM »

Very exciting possibilities and opportunities, DR George!!!

I hope that the one you choose makes you happy!

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** September 27, 2008, 01:46:57 AM »

I have been biting my tongue over Palin, but unlike DR Cillaliz, I am going to take the higher road and refrain from spilling my bile all over HHW.

What she says may very well be true. But does she honestly think that McCain and Palin aren't lying through their teeth as well? They seem to have learned one thing from "W" - repeat it often enough, and people may believe it to be true.

But we all know it ain't.

And that's a big problem with our system. No matter which candidate is spewing. No matter whose "side" you're on.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #9 on:** September 27, 2008, 03:50:22 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 27, 2008, 01:46:57 AM

And that's a big problem with our system. No matter which candidate is spewing. No matter whose "side" you're on.

The biggest problem is that the biggest liar is usually the winner! (And smear campaigns work!)

People polled say they dislike negative ads, despise phone calls, hate the mail campaigns;

but...the team with the most negative ads, most phone calls, and best direct mail effort usually wins.

I did work for one honest congressman: he refused to accept PAC contributions and worked with an all-volunteer staff out of his son's apartment. I worked for him for free and even wrote him $2000 checks each election - on the other campaigns I was working, I charged $3000-$5000 and donated nothing.

der Brucer

One ex-Congressman from CA just called me two days ago and asked to buy help in updating the computer software I wrote for him in 1994 - it has a list of 8000 contacts and he still uses it regularly.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #10 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:30:03 AM »

Consider this - according to current projections, if McCain can pick up NH and VA (both states have Obama ahead by only 1%), the Electoral College will tie 269-269.

The Presidential Race would go to the House, where that body would surely elect Obama as President.

The Vice Presidential race would go to the Senate. The Senate splits 49-49 with two independents. If Sen Lieberman voted with the Republicans, there would be a Biden/Palin tie.

Who breaks Senate ties - the VP - Dick Cheney.

So on Inauguration Day we could have President Obama and Vice President Palin sworn in together.

der Brucer

To add to the fun , the Constitution is not clear whether the VP can break this particular kind of tie vote.

FJL · « **Reply #11 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:34:44 AM »

The higher road? What site is this again?

FJL · « **Reply #12 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:40:25 AM »

Just having fun. The higher road is always acceptable behavior, though it tends not to be in my personality.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:41:42 AM »

Quote from: FJL on September 27, 2008, 04:34:44 AM

The higher road? What site is this again?

Haines Lost Horizon?

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:45:29 AM »

Quote from: FJL on September 27, 2008, 04:40:25 AM

Just having fun. The higher road is always acceptable behavior, though it tends not to be in my personality.

It's OK - let them take the high road; silhouetted against the sky they make good targets.

der Brucer

Jrand73 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:56:07 AM »

LOOT is a very black comedy, DR GEORGE....and it's Mr McCleavey's dead wife and his gay son who set the plot in motion....after a bank robbery.....I only saw it once, but parts of it are pretty funny....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 27, 2008, 04:58:15 AM »

Work today, oh well.

TOD:

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
PATTON
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
THE HINDENBURG
DR STRANGELOVE

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #17 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:04:34 AM »

TV GUIDE

Quote

DO NOT DISTURB IS FIRST FALL SERIES TO CLOSE ITS DOORS

Fox has canceled Jerry O'Connell and Niecy Nash's inn-centered sitcom, Do Not Disturb, after just three episodes, a network rep confirms for TVGuide.com.

The show's Wednesday slot will be filled by 'Til Death reruns for the moment. The cancellation comes days after the production team sent a letter to TV critics apologizing (!) "for being the perpetrators of such bad television." The execs blamed the show's bad reception, in part, on Fox's decision to air a different first episode than initially planned, says Variety.

I'm not surprised. I watched the first show then opted for Weather Channel Reruns rather than watch the second.

der Brucer

singdaw · « **Reply #18 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:09:44 AM »

bk [and some others] may find this of interest:

Coming out on DVD in France is a complete Jacques Demy collection, not just the previously released musicals [Les parapluies de 'Cherbourg', Les demoiselles de Rochefort, 'Le joueur de flûte de Hamelin' & 'Le peau d'âne], but also 'Un chambre en ville' (music by Michel Colombier), 'Parking' and 'Trois places pour le 26' .

It's pricey [at a hundred euros], but maybe they will be released separately afterwards.

link here

It seems that the films will be English-subtitled, but not the extras.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #19 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:16:20 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 27, 2008, 05:09:44 AM

...[Les parapluies de 'Cherbourg', Les demoiselles de Rochefort, 'Le joueur de flûte de Hamelin' & 'Le peau d'âne], but also 'Un chambre en ville' (music by Michel Colombier), 'Parking' and 'Trois places pour le 26' ...

Is there a SPOILER in there?

der Brucer

Jrand73 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:20:30 AM »

Off to work.

vixmom · « **Reply #21 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:50:44 AM »

Hello Ben

vixmom · « **Reply #22 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:53:07 AM »

This has been a bad week for electical applainces in Chateu de le Vixter

Dishwasher: only running wash cycle... rinse cycle appears to be kaput

microwave: deader than a doornail

dryer: more of a dampner

computer: keeps shutting down

vixmom · « **Reply #23 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:54:09 AM »

Vixdad has run various diagnosis on the computer and it seems to be up and running again

vixmom · « **Reply #24 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:55:25 AM »

oh and we all have colds accompanied by very sore throats

vixmom · « **Reply #25 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:56:01 AM »

so, how're youz guyz?

vixmom · « **Reply #26 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:57:21 AM »

Quote from: George on September 27, 2008, 01:02:24 AM

I'm going with my friend Margo, who really wants to see it, also.

Has anyone else seen this...is anyone else planning on seeing this broadcast of Rent?

I am taking The Vixter and 3 of her friends to the last showing tomorrow at 1 PM

vixmom · « **Reply #27 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:57:44 AM »

now to ketchup

vixmom · « **Reply #28 on:** September 27, 2008, 05:58:07 AM »

I may be some time

elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** September 27, 2008, 06:14:34 AM »

Good morning, all! My date to hear my new arrangements for the Men's Chorus has been cancelled today, so I'm staying in - except for the walk - and finishing up some work on my desk. I stayed up until 1 am last night watching the post-debate discussions, and I need to finish up some things. I'm still waiting for a go-ahead or requests for changes to THE STUDENT PRINCE medley, and that's got me on hold.

DR George, Joe Orton is one of my favorite playwrights because of his outrageous wit, insane plotting, and inner rage. I believe his plays are the funniest things written since Noel Coward's best comedies, and his style calls for the easy repartee of Oscar Wilde cmbined with the violence and rablood of a violent film: when one of the robbers in LOOT tells Truscott "You have got me bloodied and on the floor" and the shootings occur at the end of WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, the blood should be realistic.

Orton's not easy to perform: of the 7 or 8 different productions of WHAT THE BUTLER SAW that I've seen, only the 1973 Wiliamstown Theatre production with John Glover, David Dukes, and Lynn Milgrim came the closest to being an ideal representation of the show's style. There's a not-too-good film of LOOT with Lee Remick as the killer nurse, and you might want to track it down on VHS, and a rather good film of ENTERTAINING MR SLOAN with the late, great Beryl Reid. The film bio of John Lahr's book PRICK UP YOUR EARS is very interesting and goes into detail the tribulations of the original disastrous London-bound production of LOOT, which couldn't make it into London, and how another director took the script and made it a success.

I saw John Tillinger's Broadway production with Alec Baldwin and Zeljko Ivanek as the robbers, but I thought he miscast Joe Maher and Charles Keating and they should have switched roles. Charles was too sly to play McLeavyand would have been better as the corrupt police inspector.

There are grrat lines in LOOT:
"Total extermination has done nothing to silence her slanderous togue."
"What a thing to happen to a man who's been kissed by the pope!"

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