Topic: THE FINE ART OF BALLYHOO AND SHOWMANSHIP (Read 23805 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #150 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:32:59 PM »

Quote from: JRand59 on October 22, 2009, 11:32:50 AM

DR GINNY and DH RICHARD have a great time in NYC and take lots of pictures! And remember if DH RICHARD appears onstage on Broadway again during this visit, he will qualify for his Equity card.

Actually, DR JRand, in FINIAN'S RAINBOW, Mr Shears or Mr Robust - I always forget which - looks a lot like DH Richard.

Ginny · « **Reply #151 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:34:55 PM »

Thanks, DRs Julie and FJL for the welcomes!

Ginny · « **Reply #152 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:35:39 PM »

Happiest of birthdays to DR Cason!

Ginny · « **Reply #153 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:36:42 PM »

DR Elmore - I'm so glad you'll be able to take a guest to the party!

So, Julie's suggestion to meet at John's Pizza around 5pm on Saturday will work?

Ginny · « **Reply #154 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:39:10 PM »

Signing off now to go wander around Times Square a bit...bye for now!

Ben · « **Reply #155 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:50:32 PM »

I'm meeting Richard and Ginny for Dinner.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #156 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:52:24 PM »

People of earth wish Zubrick a very happy natal day!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #157 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:56:16 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on October 22, 2009, 06:44:17 AM

"Ballyhoo" made me immediately think of Alfred Uhry's THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO, a play I never saw nor read.

I saw it in its first production during the Cultural Olympiad in Atlanta, '96. I liked it very much. Good crowds supporting our home boy. Mr. Uhry.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #158 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:58:58 PM »

Quote from: JRand59 on October 22, 2009, 07:54:11 AM

BABY DOLL on DVD is on sale for $5.97, so I purchased that as well.

Nothing like a lurid melodrama to pique my interest!

FJL · « **Reply #159 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:00:15 PM »

Happy birthday, Cason!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #160 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:06:02 PM »

TOD: HOMICIDAL (my all-time favorite W.C. film!) I got to see it again a few years ago at the drive-in. I saw this when I was a kid and it really creeped me out, big time!

MR. SADONICUS (I got to take the "Punishment Poll!")

I SAW WHAT YOU DID

THE NIGHT STALKER-The poster alone was scary to me!

Matt H. · « **Reply #161 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:08:54 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 22, 2009, 11:07:18 AM

Quote from: JRand59 on October 22, 2009, 11:00:10 AM
Does anyone still use.....a.....typewriter?

Mine went out with the bedbugs.

I have a couple of them stored on shelves in various closets. One's electric, the other manual. Hadn't thought about either in years until I read this today.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #162 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:10:01 PM »

Ah Yes....THE NIGHT WALKER!!! With Ms Stanwyck and Mr Taylor.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #163 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:10:40 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on October 22, 2009, 01:08:54 PM

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 22, 2009, 11:07:18 AM
Quote from: JRand59 on October 22, 2009, 11:00:10 AM
Does anyone still use.....a.....typewriter?

Mine went out with the bedbugs.

I have a couple of them stored on shelves in various closets. One's electric, the other manual. Hadn't thought about either in years until I read this today.

Same with me. I think I have an electronic typewriter in the closet.

Matt H. · « **Reply #164 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:10:59 PM »

I got five more episodes of THE GUARDIAN watched today thus far. That brings me to 16 total episodes watched with six more to go. I likely won't get them finished tonight. At most, I'll get three more watched before prime time TV begins. I'll have to finish the others tomorrow.

MBarnum · « **Reply #165 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:14:07 PM »

I forgot NIGHT WALKER and HOMOCIDAL...and as it turns out NIGHT WALKER was really my first William Castle film...for years I had rememberd seeing the last part of it one afternoon when I was a teeny, tiny toddler, and never knew what the film was...I just remembed some guy taking his eyes out, or something. Scared me. Then years later I saw the whole movie and then knew what I had seen.

Matt H. · « **Reply #166 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:15:19 PM »

The cases on THE GUARDIAN are always interesting, sometimes very disturbing or depressing. But the second half of the season has really gone soap opera with all this angst about the love lives, drug habits, jealousies of the lawyers. I think it's what ultimately killed the show. There's just TOO much going on in these episodes: two to three cases per show plus all these personal things among the lawyers.

And Simon Baker's character is SO tortured. No wonder THE MENTALIST is such a big hit; he's got a terrible, haunting backstory, but his personality is effervescent, playful, appealing unlike the dour figure at the head of THE GUARDIAN.

MBarnum · « **Reply #167 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:15:38 PM »

the only typewriter I had was a big, old clunky black thing from the early 1920s. Heavy as all get out. I think I finally got rid of it in the 1980s, after I had moved to Salem.

Matt H. · « **Reply #168 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:16:25 PM »

I did have time to skim through both of today's soap operas. Nothing of interest at all in either of them for me, though Luke did turn up in the previews for tomorrow's show.

MBarnum · « **Reply #169 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:17:13 PM »

Just saw that Collin Wilcox, who played the Mayella Violet Ewell in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD passed away this week at her home in North Carolina of brain cancer.

Matt H. · « **Reply #170 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:17:42 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on October 22, 2009, 01:15:38 PM

the only typewriter I had was a big, old clunky black thing from the early 1920s. Heavy as all get out. I think I finally got rid of it in the 1980s, after I had moved to Salem.

My aunt gave me her old Underwood (which was exactly the way your described) when she got an electric typewriter in the late 1960s. That old Underwood lasted me through college, but it DID indeed weigh a ton.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #171 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:25:30 PM »

I took my old black Underwood to the theatre prop shop where it has appeared in a couple of productions, most notably in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #172 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:25:45 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on October 22, 2009, 01:17:13 PM

Just saw that Collin Wilcox, who played the Mayella Violet Ewell in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD passed away this week at her home in North Carolina of brain cancer.

Sad.

Matt H. · « **Reply #173 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:41:52 PM »

I must hop off-line now and write for a little while. Then, I'll head back down and see how many more GUARDIAN episodes I can watch before prime time TV kicks in.

WBBL.

Julie · « **Reply #174 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:05:46 PM »

Going to see Liz Callaway at the Metropolitan Room tonight.

bk · « **Reply #175 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:16:40 PM »

Collin Wilcox was brilliant in Mockingbird, and even more brilliant as the slutty and maniacal Thedy Sue in Ray Bradbury's The Jar, one of the greatest hours of television in the history of the medium, part of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

bk · « **Reply #176 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:17:14 PM »

Back from a very entertaining lunch with Mr. Graae and I do think we'll be making a new album together next March or April.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #177 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:18:33 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on October 22, 2009, 01:17:13 PM

Just saw that Collin Wilcox, who played the Mayella Violet Ewell in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD passed away this week at her home in North Carolina of brain cancer.

Oh, that is so sad! I've visited her home several times; and last time I saw her she looked great. It was two years ago and our Cowboy Envy friends were doing a show at her theatre. I'm very sorry to hear this!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #178 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:22:11 PM »

Thedy Sue....that has been a part of my family for ever since I was a child and continues to be so. Every time we find a jar with mysterious contents..."Thedy Sue"!

Laura · « **Reply #179 on:** October 22, 2009, 03:03:21 PM »

Quote from: bk on October 22, 2009, 02:17:14 PM

Back from a very entertaining lunch with Mr. Graae and I do think we'll be making a new album together next March or April.

I like this.

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