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[Jeanne]

I think that DR Jane has been quite lucky to have found so many charming contractors. 

[FJL]

Jose - Are you giving me ideas for extra sections of the number again? 

[Jane]

DR MBarnum, 20%-ouch.  At least your time at work is decreased with the salary.   Just think of all the extra long walks you and Bosco can take.

Any chance of staying with a friend in L. A. instead of a hotel? 

[Jane]

Oh my Cilla those Beignets look good!  You look good too 

I’m enjoying your verbal tour of New Orleans.

[DAW]

our share of charming & useless contractors. 

That's the title of the next installment of my autobiography...  CHARMING & USELESS.   

[DAW]

Jose - Are you giving me ideas for extra sections of the number again? 

Oh, I do hope so!!   

[Jane]

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Too much bragging? 

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Abut our Vixter, never!

After reading the initial set-up of the conferences I wonder if parents figured they would be a waste of time.  I'm glad they were fun & did not exhaust you.

[DAW]

Lunch du jour:  split pea soup and a roast beast sammich.

[Jane]

wHAT A DUMP - my new cartoon about when the dogs swallowed a fiber tablet by accident

 

[Jane]

DR Jane, thanks for the news about DR Danise. That is terrible.  Are we sure the guy is a creep? Is
there any chance that he just got in over his head?

i know we were all worried about something like this happening. But he did offer a lot of help in the beginning.  Is the house at all done? How much of the work did you do? And has he just left it unfinished?

Please let DR Danise know we are all thinking about her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I will let her know.  I really don't know the answers to most of your questions.  I agree, it did really seem like a good guy in the beginning.  All I know is whatever his motives he hasn't come through for her & she can't go home.

[Jane]

re: the joaquin phoenix thing

I remember hearing when it happened that perhaps he was just playing a joke on david letterman. Has it been confirmed that how he acted on the show was real and not a gag?

As far as I know nothing has been confirmed it is a joke.  He is so bad & untalented & his brother-in-law is following him around documenting it all so people are guessing/hoping it is a joke.  After watching the clip, I very much hope it is a joke.  And I hope his family knows so.  I can't imagine how I would feel watching my son, brother, anyone I cared about, if this is real.

[Jane]

Betsy has been reunited with her keys.  Whew.

[Jane]

DR MBarnum, 20%-ouch.  At least your time at work is decreased with the salary.   Just think of all the extra long walks you and Bosco can take.

Any chance of staying with a friend instead of a hotel? 

[Ron Pulliam]

Lunch du jour:  split pea soup and a roast beast sammich.

HEY!  



 

[Jane]

I think that DR Jane has been quite lucky to have found so many charming contractors. 

LOL-real lucky, right.

[Ron Pulliam]

re: the joaquin phoenix thing

I remember hearing when it happened that perhaps he was just playing a joke on david letterman. Has it been confirmed that how he acted on the show was real and not a gag?

As far as I know nothing has been confirmed it is a joke.  He is so bad & untalented & his brother-in-law is following him around documenting it all so people are guessing/hoping it is a joke.  After watching the clip, I very much hope it is a joke.  And I hope his family knows so.  I can't imagine how I would feel watching my son, brother, anyone I cared about, if this is real.

Bad?  Untalented?

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the finest actors of his generation.  When he's on screen you cannot NOT watch him.  I think he's a brilliant actor.

[Jane]

In high school Craig went to (I forget where in the south) for a school project.  The kids converted part of a church into a shelter.   It was a great experience & he had fun too.   I’m sure the Vixter will have a fantastic trip with the church group.

[Jane]

re: the joaquin phoenix thing

I remember hearing when it happened that perhaps he was just playing a joke on david letterman. Has it been confirmed that how he acted on the show was real and not a gag?

As far as I know nothing has been confirmed it is a joke.  He is so bad & untalented & his brother-in-law is following him around documenting it all so people are guessing/hoping it is a joke.  After watching the clip, I very much hope it is a joke.  And I hope his family knows so.  I can't imagine how I would feel watching my son, brother, anyone I cared about, if this is real.

Bad?  Untalented?

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the finest actors of his generation.  When he's on screen you cannot NOT watch him.  I think he's a brilliant actor.

Yes, he should stick to acting.  I'm referring to his new career.

[Ron Pulliam]

I do feel that there's someone somewhere who can help Danise. Yes, these things are commonplace, but that doesn't mean there are no remedies.

I've had problems with MANY contractors. I find that most will succumb to pressure. Few people look forward to going to court. Unfortunately, many of us feel uncomfortable standing up for ourselves, but that's exactly what you have to do.

Someone here close to Danise should contact Vern Yip at HGTV..."Deserving Design"...and tell him of DR Danise's plight.  Perhaps he'll redo the badly done rooms in her house and make a show of it.

[elmore3003]

TOD:


DVD:

A documentary (from Netflix) on the history if film in Iran. It is quite fascinating to see what Iran's cinema was like in the 50s and 60s...lots of fluffy Doris Day type comedies and plenty of action and exploitation movies.

And it is quite a contrast to see Iranian women in min-skirts and bouffant hair and then comparing that to 30 years later when they are all dressed in those not so attractive black robes and head coverings.


DVR:

Life on Mars, Survivor, The Office (if it was on this week)

CD:
Several vintage Bollywood soundtracks.

I believe THE OFFICE was a rerun this week.

It was a rerun. It was about the office charity auction and Springsteen tickets.

[bk]

I see Jason Graae every few months (he lives about ten minutes away) - he just did a play at the Falcon, which I wasn't able to see.

[elmore3003]

And I believe bk has mentioned running into Mr. Graae every now and then whenever he's happened to be in NYC.

It was my impression that Mr. Graae lives near Los Angeles now.

He does indeed. He was just back here doing a reading of something. EINSTEIN'S DREAM, perhaps, at Symphony space?

[bk]

I'm up, and must shortly be on my way to do the early errand, which shouldn't take too long, then I'll try to do the long jog, then Mr. Spirtas will be here, then I'll send out the final two packages, then I'll start writing liner notes, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my "me" time seems to have evaporated - not only for today, but now tomorrow I have to be in the editing room for two hours.

[elmore3003]

DR MBarnum, 20%-ouch.  At least your time at work is decreased with the salary.   Just think of all the extra long walks you and Bosco can take.

Any chance of staying with a friend instead of a hotel? 

You have to be as old as DR MBarnum's romantic flights of fantasy to stay in the nursing homes.

[elmore3003]

The BABES IN TOYLAND final edits are finished! I think I'll get a snack, take my walk, clean the apartment and be all set for DR Ben's arrival.

The trees must be beginning to blossom. My allergies have been in an uproar today; I cannot stop sneezing.

[DAW]

HEY! 

[DAW]

DR Ron Pulliam, haven't you heard that shameless stealing imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?   

[Jane]

I do feel that there's someone somewhere who can help Danise. Yes, these things are commonplace, but that doesn't mean there are no remedies.

I've had problems with MANY contractors. I find that most will succumb to pressure. Few people look forward to going to court. Unfortunately, many of us feel uncomfortable standing up for ourselves, but that's exactly what you have to do.

Someone here close to Danise should contact Vern Yip at HGTV..."Deserving Design"...and tell him of DR Danise's plight.  Perhaps he'll redo the badly done rooms in her house and make a show of it.

From what I can tell he is strictly a decorator.  First you need a completed house to decorate.

[Jane]

I briefly spoke to Danise.  At least she has a roof & the windows are in, nothing else though.

HOUSE VIBES FOR DR DANISE & DD SHEENA!!!

[Dan (the Man)]

In my DVD burner are several DVDs that I burned from old VHS tapes of mine:

Camelot with Gabriel Byrne and Marin Mazzie...this isn't from an old VHS, but the PBS broadcast from last year.  Otherwise, the rest are from VHS tapes of mine that I rediscovered last weekend:

Play On! with the songs of Duke Ellington.  This production was filmed for PBS in 1999 at the Pasadena Playhouse.  The original Broadway cast recording was recorded by BK!  Tonya Pinkins was in the original Broadway cast.

Speaking of Tonya Pinkins, next will be Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway, with Tonya and the late Gregory Hines.  This is the 1992 one hour PBS special (notice a trend here??) about the musical and the recording of the cast album to Jelly's Last Jam!

After that will be the PBS showing of Black and Blue from 1993.  This is the original Broadway production that was filmed by Robert Altman.  It has shots of backstage in between the numbers.  It's quite good.

Then..."Evening at Pops" with Bonnie Raitt & John Raitt and fiddler Mark O'Connor from 1992.  Again, from PBS!

And finally (and NOT from PBS!), my DVD burned from my purchased VHS tape of I Do! I Do! with Lee Remick and Hal Linden.  It's from 1982 and it still looks great!

That's what I have been and will be watching.

PLAY ON was broadcast on PBS?  Odd, but I don't remember it at all.  I'll have to check my VHS collection.

I do remember the JELLY'S LAST JAM special.  I also remember being disappointed that the show never did do the live Pay Per View for Cable that was planned.

I'm about to get to work on converting all my VHS theatre-based tapes to DVD.  First project will be the PBS broadcast of A.R. Gurney's THE DINING ROOM. 

I need to do that with my collection, too. But where to find the time? No way!

LOL--you got that right, DR Matt.  By the time I finish, Blu-Ray will probably be an obsolete format.