Topic: FEBRUARY WITH AN R (Read 29374 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #240 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:53:59 PM »

If the weather continues like this - I will have a chance to wash my car tomorrow!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #241 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:56:22 PM »

Page Nine PT Cruiser Dance.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #242 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:57:35 PM »

Damn....burning a movie, uploading a photo, and the damn AVG Virus program decides to update itself.

I have only so much RAM, you know!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #243 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:58:16 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 05:51:38 PM

I watched the West Coast production of Doctor Atomic and I must say that although some of the femme roles were played/sung better - overall, I liked the Metropolitan production. The design and staging and particularly the payoff at the end was heart stopping and tremendous at the Met....and I am hoping this production comes out on DVD - although since we have this one (with way too many close ups), we not get another.

WNET just rebroadcast Doctor Atomic earlier today. From what I understand, The Met's production will also be released on DVD after the end of the current season. -As will the other operas that have been a part of their HD broadcasts.

"Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic" will also be released at the end of next month.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #244 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:59:15 PM »

Thanks DR JOSE.....I cannot recommend it highly enough. I had been waiting to see it since you wrote about it and linked the Met production link!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #245 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:59:21 PM »

DR Jane - How about Australia? Melbourne, in particular.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #246 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:11:03 PM »

Al di la............................

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #247 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:12:29 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 05:59:15 PM

Thanks DR JOSE.....I cannot recommend it highly enough. I had been waiting to see it since you wrote about it and linked the Met production link!

You're very welcome, DR JRand. I just hope that the recent budget "adjustments" that The Met has had to make to next season's line-up won't affect their DVD releases. -I think the new production of Le Damnation de Faust worked better on screen than it did live. All that technology was meant for technology, I guess.

And I believe DR (sing)DAW also made a few mentions of Doctor Atomic early on, since he knows Sasha Cooke.

Ann · « **Reply #248 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:17:55 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 01, 2009, 05:59:21 PM

DR Jane - How about Australia? Melbourne, in particular.

I have informed DH Jed that someday we will visit Australia. I've always wanted to go there.

Ben · « **Reply #249 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:19:44 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 05:57:35 PM

Damn....burning a movie, uploading a photo, and the damn AVG Virus program decides to update itself.

I have only so much RAM, you know!

That's why I turn off automatic updates. But then I'm enough of a geek to remember to check every day for updates, especially now that we have high speed.

Ben · « **Reply #250 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:20:50 PM »

My return has been accepted by the IRS so my taxes (both state and federal) have been filed.

I will now check weekly on the status of my refund(s) with a little time off for processing, of course.

I also have to go to the bank and put some money in my IRA.

Anthony will have his taxes done tomorrow so we will be a tax-filed family as of tomorrow evening.

Ben · « **Reply #251 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:21:40 PM »

Australia. We keep talking about it (Anthony and I) but we haven't yet gotten there. We hope to some day soon.

Of course, Anthony will be in Wisconsin soon so we can't go at least until he gets back.

Jane · « **Reply #252 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:22:02 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 01, 2009, 05:52:31 PM

DR Jane - Hopefully, now that you've "expressed" your dream, it won't keep you up again tonight.

I am only relieved I could not scream in my dream, poor Keith & Sherlock if I had.

Jane · « **Reply #253 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:22:52 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 05:53:17 PM

I think either location sounds dreamy and romantic, DR JANE!

Thanks. True, wherever we go it should be romantic.

Jane · « **Reply #254 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:24:29 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 01, 2009, 05:59:21 PM

DR Jane - How about Australia? Melbourne, in particular.

DR Tomovoz knows we considered this along with New Zealand. We decided to June 1st would be too cold.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #255 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:25:15 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 12:40:27 PM

I am still agog at the fluffy bits being displayed on the National Stage.

Ms. Staunton's fluffy bits were not exposed onstage at the National but The Trafalgar Studio Theatre on Whitehall.

Jane · « **Reply #256 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:26:17 PM »

Quote from: Ann on February 01, 2009, 06:17:55 PM

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 01, 2009, 05:59:21 PM
DR Jane - How about Australia? Melbourne, in particular.

I have informed DH Jed that someday we will visit Australia. I've always wanted to go there.

There & New Zealand was our first idea. It took us awhile to wrap our heads around someplace else. If it weren't for our 40th we might have waited.

Jane · « **Reply #257 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:29:08 PM »

DR CharlesPogue, did you see you missed the big snow storm in England?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #258 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:32:26 PM »

HA!

I believe a DR or two may have linked pics from this site before:

CAKE WRECKS - WHEN PROFESSIONAL CAKES GO HORRIBLY, HILARIOUSLY WRONG

Here's a BEST OF GALLERY from the Telegraph (UK).

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #259 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:35:26 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 01, 2009, 10:36:58 AM

Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 01, 2009, 09:19:51 AM
Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 01, 2009, 08:45:18 AM
DR Charles Pogue - "Little Eyolf" becomes "Mrs. Affleck"? Hmm...

Jose, sadly, it didn't become much of anything. One prominent critic suggested a more enjoyable evening might be spent tearing out one's fingernails by the roots.

Just curious: What were the updated names of the characters? Especially for "Borghejm".

"Little Eyolf" was my friend's directing thesis project in college, so I was more or less immersed in that world via osmosis for a few months.

The names were all very English, as it's set in fifties Britain. The weirdest change was the strange lady with the odd prophetic gifts was turned into a fifties rocker with leather jacket and greased hair. The whole reconception was just a mess.

There is a great TV version of Little Eyolf with Anthony Hopkins, Diana Rigg, and Peggy Ashcroft in the boxed DVD BBC set of Ibsen plays. Ibsen's psychology is just remarkable sound and true today. It's like he, as a dramatist, is making the same psychological inroads that Freud and Jung were at about the same time.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #260 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:39:51 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on February 01, 2009, 01:14:39 PM

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 12:40:27 PM
I am still agog at the fluffy bits being displayed on the National Stage.

Tne big scandal about 1980 at the National was the Howard Brenton play ROMANS IN BRITAIN which had complete nudity and Roman soldiers raping naked young British lads. The uproar was over subsidizing such "filth."

This was Britain's resident Puritan Mary Whitehouse who made the stink and actually prosecuted the director and playwright I believe. I've read the play and you wonder in this day and age what all the fuss was about. I believe it was revised a few years back (not at the National) with hardly any eyebrows lifted at all.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #261 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:40:05 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 01, 2009, 06:25:15 PM

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 12:40:27 PM
I am still agog at the fluffy bits being displayed on the National Stage.

Ms. Staunton's fluffy bits were not exposed onstage at the National but The Trafalgar Studio Theatre on Whitehall.

Geography is not my strong suit. I stand corrected.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #262 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:41:23 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on February 01, 2009, 01:30:11 PM

GUYS AND DOLLS might have been an interesting 3-D movie. Anything to get it away from that dullish studio look.

I personally like the studio look to GUYS & DOLLS. It goes perfectly with the Damon Runyon fantasy world.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #263 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:41:38 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 01, 2009, 06:25:15 PM

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 12:40:27 PM
I am still agog at the fluffy bits being displayed on the National Stage.

Ms. Staunton's fluffy bits were not exposed onstage at the National but The Trafalgar Studio Theatre on Whitehall.

And which of course reminds me of Lorraine Sheldon's line in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER - "Her dress was cut so low, you could see all the way to Trafalgar Square!"

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #264 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:42:21 PM »

Quote from: Jane on February 01, 2009, 06:29:08 PM

DR CharlesPogue, did you see you missed the big snow storm in England?

Great! Missed the big English snow storm to come home to the big Kentucky ice storm.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #265 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:42:37 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 01, 2009, 06:39:51 PM

Quote from: elmore3003 on February 01, 2009, 01:14:39 PM
Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 12:40:27 PM
I am still agog at the fluffy bits being displayed on the National Stage.

Tne big scandal about 1980 at the National was the Howard Brenton play ROMANS IN BRITAIN which had complete nudity and Roman soldiers raping naked young British lads. The uproar was over subsidizing such "filth."

This was Britain's resident Puritan Mary Whitehouse who made the stink and actually prosecuted the director and playwright I believe. I've read the play and you wonder in this day and age what all the fuss was about. I believe it was revised a few years back (not at the National) with hardly any eyebrows lifted at all.

Eyebrows....anyway......

Jrand73 · « **Reply #266 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:42:56 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 01, 2009, 06:42:21 PM

Quote from: Jane on February 01, 2009, 06:29:08 PM
DR CharlesPogue, did you see you missed the big snow storm in England?

Great! Missed the big English snow storm to come home to the big Kentucky ice storm.

And another one on the way tomorrow night, they say.

Jane · « **Reply #267 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:44:51 PM »

Those cakes are a riot. I think the best one is “write welcome on it” At least the next one didn’t say “write on it”, it only said “congratulations three times”.

Jane · « **Reply #268 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:45:31 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 01, 2009, 06:42:21 PM

Quote from: Jane on February 01, 2009, 06:29:08 PM
DR CharlesPogue, did you see you missed the big snow storm in England?

Great! Missed the big English snow storm to come home to the big Kentucky ice storm.

I'm sure you had more snow.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #269 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:47:30 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on February 01, 2009, 05:52:26 PM

I just remember Welch's tirade when Kramer had to fire her on SEINFELD.

She had lots of practice!

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