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[George]

I will be listening to a BBC1 recording of Stephen Sondheim stint as visiting professor at Oxford University. There are 11 songs and several cuts songs. The singers including performers from the first UK production of Sunday In the Park with George. Singers include: Philip Quast, Maria Friedman, Nicolas Colicos, Megan Kelly and two others whose names I could not quite get.

I'm jealous!  That's sound cool!  I wish the London production of SITPWG had been recorded.

[elmore3003]

I came back from my jaunt to find a wonderful surprise for DR Ben and Anthony waiting at my door. And a loverly jaunt it was, too!

[Ron Pulliam]

we are all winners and receive your sparkle!

And you can hear the gale created by the sighs of relief that that was not a euphemism!  

That....or...the gale was created by folks otherwise pretending to be coughing up hairballs.

[George]

DR George, you're a glutton for punishment for burning that hideous CAMELOT to a DVD. Absolutely the worst I've ever seen Marin Mazzie, and almost every other casting and directing choice in the production was just so terrible. That is one production I NEVER want to see again.

Well, I don't really like the show or this production, but I thought that since it was on anyway and blank DVDs are VERY cheap, why not?

[Matt H.]

Well, as I suspected, it did start raining while I was in the grocery store. Luckily I had taken my umbrella along, so I didn't get wet. It didn't really rain hard anyway.

[Matt H.]

I watched last night's BURN NOTICE while I ate lunch. Good episode with the actor who played "Dutch" on THE SHIELD as the primary guest villain. I certainly do love this show. One more episode before its second season is over.

[Matt H.]

Then I watched the last four episodes of SOUTH PARK. There was some really funny ribbing of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL and the current craze for vampires. And, obviously, they had to do an Obama election-victory episode that was very funny (which turned into an OCEANS ELEVEN scenario).

[Matt H.]

There was one bonus feature on the last disc, another lengthyn commentary by the animators on the Obama episode. Amazing how the show, even a day before it airs, is still at least 1/3 not finished yet with only storyboards or animatics in various spots.

[Matt H.]

I had time left over to finish up Part I of WHEN THE LION ROARS which I had started a couple of nights ago. I still had about 30 minutes of part I left to watch (the end of the Thalberg era in the studio when he dies in 1937).

[Matt H.]

Next, I scanned through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. Nothing of interest, but Luke and Noah were on the road in the previews for next week. Don't know WHAT that's all about, but it appears Elwood is going to get run over or something.

[Matt H.]

When I go back down later, I'll be able to watch ON THE OTHER HAND DEATH, the next Donald Stratchy mystery which I'm really looking forward to.

[Matt H.]

I also got a couple of more review copies today: Criterion's THE LAST METRO and also CADILLAC RECORDS on Blu-ray. I'll probably do the latter for my work project tomorrow.

[Jane]

How disappointing, DR vixmom.  They owe you one or two...somethings.

One would think. 

DR Vixmom if the therapist doesn't profusely apologize I hope you will say something.

[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?

DR Jenn, there is talk that this is actually an elaborate hoax since evey move Phoenix makes is being filmed by Matt Damon. 

His brother-in-law Ben Affleck is filming it.

I could never tell those two apart.

It's simple -- Damon is the blonde one...the one who actually HAS acting talent.

Affleck is the dark-haired one with the hairpiece -- the one who is better "behind" the camera, more often than not.

How do you know he has a hairpiece?

[Jane]

I watched last night's BURN NOTICE while I ate lunch. Good episode with the actor who played "Dutch" on THE SHIELD as the primary guest villain. I certainly do love this show. One more episode before its second season is over.

It was an exceptionally great episode of a fantastic show.  We thought LIFE was very good too.  Last night was a very enjoyable evening of viewing for us.




HOUSE SPOILER:

















"Moron with the broken finger"














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[Matt H.]

I must hop off-line now to get some writing done. Then, I'll be heading down to enjoy an evening of fun viewing.

WBBL.

[Jane]

Wow, a mother who didn't throw out her child's Superman comic book:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/02/26/comic.book.auction/?iref=mpstoryview

[DERBRUCER]

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?

DR Jenn, there is talk that this is actually an elaborate hoax since evey move Phoenix makes is being filmed by Matt Damon. 

His brother-in-law Ben Affleck is filming it.

I could never tell those two apart.

It's simple -- Damon is the blonde one...the one who actually HAS acting talent.

Affleck is the dark-haired one with the hairpiece -- the one who is better "behind" the camera, more often than not.

How do you know he has a hairpiece?

Well, if you spent less time with frivolous Book Clubs and more time browsing the gossip columns, you'd know.

der Brucer

[Jane]

[MBarnum]

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

Would that DR MBarnum have such luck.

 
Oh, I have met some very friendly contractors in my day. 

[JMK]

Betsy's keys were still on the bus--she met the driver at the 8:30 stop I mentioned, stepped on, he handed her her keys and she stepped off.

In other exciting breaking news, the shingles have been delivered and are stacked on the roof waiting for the roofers, who I assume will be here Monday.

[bk]

Back from a good lunch with Mr. Spirtas.  No packages today.  I guess I'll try to do a first pass of liner notes now.

[Jane]

Betsy's keys were still on the bus--she met the driver at the 8:30 stop I mentioned, stepped on, he handed her her keys and she stepped off.

In other exciting breaking news, the shingles have been delivered and are stacked on the roof waiting for the roofers, who I assume will be here Monday.

That was easy

Wishes for good weather & competent roofers!

[Ginny]

I can see "clearly" now!

About 1pm, I called the optometrist's office and they said my glasses had just come in, but there was only 1 optician on duty today and could they schedule me for Monday.  I said, "NO," and explained that this was an emergency and she said to come right over.

[George]

Bragging Time:  her drama teacher told us that she is the only 10th grader in the college credit course she is taking.  All the other kids are juinors and seniors. (mostly seniors) and she is  "running circles around them"

She has been selected to be part of a Shakespeare Festival that will be held April 30 or May 1 (she wasn't sure of the date) at the Actor's Temple in NYC.  The teacher hasn't yet selected the part the Vixter will be performing.

That's so cool!  Congrats to The Vixter!

[George]

DR Vixmom, I am so proud of the Vixter...what a delightful girl you have raised!

Thank you!  I think we'll keep her after all!

That was still in question??

[George]

Betsy has been reunited with her keys.  Whew.

VERY Good news!

[George]

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!

I'm not going to make a DVD of every videotape that I have, just a select few.  Somewhere in my multitudes of boxes, I have the John Houseman directed The Cradle Will Rock with Patti LuPone (again, from PBS).  I haven't found that videotape, but when I do, it WILL become a DVD.

[JMK]

I believe The Cradle Will Rock in any show LuPone does, Blitzstein or no. 

[Cillaliz]

Cilla

You look MAAAAHVALOUS in that picture!  Enjoy yourself in New Orleans.  My only visit there was a day visit for several hours one day back when I was visiting a friend who lived in Gulfport, Missississipi.  The Vixter was not quite a year old at the time.  I have always wanted to go back there again.


I look forward to your pictures!

Thanks Vixmom!

I'm really tired tonight. We road the streetcar through the garden district and sat through a lot of meetings today.  There's a cocktail party tonight, but it's really expensive to go to it and I'm so tired that I decided to blow it off and stay in.  I'll go to the restaurant downstairs for dinner and then I may just hang out in the room and get some sleep.