Topic: THE NEW CAR (Read 25374 times)

Jennifer · « **Reply #120 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:32:23 PM »

I am also sad about RAGTIME closing.

JMK · « **Reply #121 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:34:03 PM »

Oy and vey. I just received a press announcement that yet another BD version of GISELLE is due. There have already been two. Now I love Adolphe Adam as much as the next guy (I think the next guy is either Elmore or Daw

), but how many times must I write a review of this piece?

Ginny · « **Reply #122 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:45:11 PM »

I'm watching a DVD - the concert version of Wonderful Town. The conductor, musicians, soloists, and chorus members all seem to be having a great time.

George · « **Reply #123 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:53:49 PM »

Quote from: Jane on December 29, 2009, 09:49:42 AM

VIBES THE NEW YEAR BRINGS KRITZERLAND LOTS OF GOOD AND SUCESSFUL RELEASES,

AND VIBES THE KITTY IS SOON REPLENISHED!!!

~~~DITTO AND DITTO!!~~~

Matt H. · « **Reply #124 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:06:49 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 29, 2009, 09:45:16 AM

MattH - While I was writing the notes, I thought to myself, myself you should go to the imdb and look up Carrie because maybe Sissy was nominated. And then, being senile, I forgot to do it, so thanks for setting the record straight and it's good to know she got up, and frankly I would have given her the Oscar over Dunaway, and I certainly would have given Piper Laurie the Oscar over Beatrice Straight's one scene performance. Miss Laurie was, in fact, absolutely brilliant as Mrs. White.

I certainly agree about Piper Laurie. In fact, I remember that Oscar night clearly and how absolutely shocked I was when Straight won the award.

Matt H. · « **Reply #125 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:08:40 PM »

It is still very cold outside. Doesn't feel much over 40, to be honest. Glad I was inside for the afternoon.

Matt H. · « **Reply #126 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:11:03 PM »

The MENTALIST revisit for today was the one where the four National Guard friends begin dying one by one by fire. Love the scene where Rigsby, under the influence of pain killers, confesses to Grace how much he loves her.

Matt H. · « **Reply #127 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:13:01 PM »

I was watching an NCIS episode from season 6 while I ate lunch. It was the one where Cristian Clemanson plays the accountant for a crime boss whose crew is being eliminated one by one. Always enjoyed Gibbs and company when they work against another US agency, in this one, the CIA.

Matt H. · « **Reply #128 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:15:57 PM »

Then I watched A STUDY IN TERROR. I hadn't seen it in decades, so it was great fun to revisit it. Love John Neville and Donald Houston as Holmes and Watson, and Robert Morley plays Mycroft. This was obviously made cheaply, but it held my interest completely and wasn't as grisly as MURDER BY DECREE, both of them pitting Holmes against Jack the Ripper.

Columbia sent an open matte transfer to TCM for broadcast. A pity.

Matt H. · « **Reply #129 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:17:11 PM »

Next I finished THE OPPOSITE SEX which I had started last night. The color on the HD version actually didn't turn out to be any better than that on the DVD-R copy I burned last year. The Metrocolor has faded, so it looks OK but not great.

Matt H. · « **Reply #130 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:18:51 PM »

I finished my afternoon with today's ONE LIFE TO LIVE. Kyle and Oliver's first fight since becoming a couple. Kyle will have some crow to eat when he finally wises up and starts seeing people for who they really are.

George · « **Reply #131 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:19:39 PM »

Quote from: DAW on December 29, 2009, 09:09:02 AM

Hilarious:
Romeo & Juliet: As You Misremembered It

I love this! This is funny!

Too bad we didn't know about this when I was in "R&J" this summer.

George · « **Reply #132 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:20:21 PM »

Quote from: Jane on December 29, 2009, 10:53:20 AM

please pray we are not snowed in the next 2 days. it is extremely important i don't miss my physical therapy appointment tomorrow or my visit with the surgeon on thursday. i tried getting in to see the surgeon today & couldn't.

~~~NO SNOW AND EASY TRANSPORTATION VIBES FOR DR JANE!!~~~

Ginny · « **Reply #133 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:21:09 PM »

We're about to leave for a supper visit with my cousin, his wife, and her parents...bye for now!

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #134 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:28:05 PM »

Quote from: JRand59 on December 29, 2009, 07:10:01 AM

I watched RIDING HIGH last night on TCM. A Bing Crosby/Frank Capra movie I had never seen. Pretty good movie, although the songs were sort of blah, as was the leading lady Colleen Gray... A remake of Capra's BROADWAY BILL - and I guess Mr Capra made a deal with Harry Cohn his old boss to re-use the racing footage from the 1934 movie in the 1950 movie to keep the costs down.

Either way - it had some fine moments.

I watched the 8:00 TCM film, BROADWAY BILL. It was an okay kind of movie but I kept wishing that Clark Gable had done it instead of Warner Baxter. I then watched the beginning of RIDING HIGH, but I felt like I already went through enough horse drama for one evening.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #135 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:34:46 PM »

Quote from: JMK on December 29, 2009, 08:30:46 AM

In other exciting news, I believe my "nuggets of wisdom" (a euphemism, to be sure) are out of me, but I am still very tender. In fact it occurred to me that off and and on for the past several years I would occasionally get a bit tender in my left kidney area, something I always ascribed to too much caffeine. It was more of a tingling-numb sensation than real pain, but now I'm wondering if perhaps I've been dealing with smaller "nuggets" for years without ever realizing it.

Be ready for everyone you know to tell you to start drinking cranberry juice to prevent kidney stones. But I recall reading recently that it really does not do any good.

Jane · « **Reply #136 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:36:42 PM »

george, right after i read your vibes, the light snowfall we've been having the past hour stopped.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #137 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:41:32 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on December 29, 2009, 11:03:10 AM

OH!

And there are a LOT of people in NYC today, this week. -And it seems like most of them don't mind standing in line outside in the cold for an hour or two.

I won't be one of them. I had really planned to come up tomorrow to bop around the city for a bit and maybe take in a show, but it's going to be just too, too windy and cold for me and my aging bones. I can handle Philly when it's cold, but not NYC.

Matt H. · « **Reply #138 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:54:57 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on December 29, 2009, 01:34:46 PM

Quote from: JMK on December 29, 2009, 08:30:46 AM
In other exciting news, I believe my "nuggets of wisdom" (a euphemism, to be sure) are out of me, but I am still very tender. In fact it occurred to me that off and and on for the past several years I would occasionally get a bit tender in my left kidney area, something I always ascribed to too much caffeine. It was more of a tingling-numb sensation than real pain, but now I'm wondering if perhaps I've been dealing with smaller "nuggets" for years without ever realizing it.

Be ready for everyone you know to tell you to start drinking cranberry juice to prevent kidney stones. But I recall reading recently that it really does not do any good.

It certainly didn't do me any good. I had my second one about 18 months after the first when cranberry juice was almost the ONLY thing I did drink between the first and second. Also completely changed my diet (since my stone was calcium-based), and that did no good either.

Matt H. · « **Reply #139 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:56:50 PM »

I forgot to mention that I also watched PREP AND LANDING, the adorable Disney-CGI cartoon special about elves who prep houses for Santa's arrival. Some really cute stuff in this, and it looked great in HD. (I recorded it weeks ago from ABC-HD, but hadn't had time to watch it.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #140 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:59:16 PM »

The UPS delivery was mid-afternoon, and it contained the remaining discs in Criterion's January release list:

CHE on DVD and Blu-ray (four hour film plus bonuses) which comes out on the 19th of January.

PARIS TEXAS on Blu-ray which comes out on the 22nd of January.

ROSSELLINI'S WAR FILMS (his first three neorealist movies beginning with ROME: OPEN CITY) on DVD coming out January 29th.

So, since all of these releases come out during the second half of January, I went ahead and took my day off. Still waiting on the arrival of those Fox releases for the week.

Matt H. · « **Reply #141 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:02:14 PM »

I'm hopping off-line now to watch another NCIS episode and then start on CHANGELING. It's a long film, so I doubt I get to anything else this evening.

WBBL.

FJL · « **Reply #142 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:22:09 PM »

When I had my kidney stone, the cranberry juice tasted real good so I forgot about the pain while I drank it, but that was about it.

FJL · « **Reply #143 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:22:37 PM »

Vibes to Jane!

George · « **Reply #144 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:26:42 PM »

Quote from: Jane on December 29, 2009, 01:36:42 PM

george, right after i read your vibes, the light snowfall we've been having the past hour stopped.

Nice!

Jane · « **Reply #145 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:36:55 PM »

thanks FJL.

george, the snow flurries have returned, lighter than before.

Laura · « **Reply #146 on:** December 29, 2009, 03:10:03 PM »

I survived The Adventure, which was not as harrowing as Penny's adventure.

Jeanne · « **Reply #147 on:** December 29, 2009, 03:23:38 PM »

OOOOhhhh! I saw BK's new car. Very nice, indeed! He's like a cat in cream sitting in it.

As for replenishing the kitty, I certainly hope that happens soon. Today we replenished our tummies. What a lot of food! BK is right: Genghis Cohen's steamed sole is excellent. (So are their other dishes.)

Jeanne · « **Reply #148 on:** December 29, 2009, 03:26:16 PM »

I'll let him tell you more, if he chooses.

Jeanne · « **Reply #149 on:** December 29, 2009, 03:26:43 PM »

No-snow vibes to Jane!

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