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« Reply #30 on: February 01, 2010, 05:53:27 AM »

Happy birthday to dear Kerry
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« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2010, 05:54:35 AM »

And happy birthday to the wonderful  Donald Feltham

It feels like your birthdays came on the same day as each other's last year, too, IIRC
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« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2010, 05:54:59 AM »

! ! ! ! !  HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO DR MICHAEL SHAYNE  ! ! ! ! !

Thanks. It's never too late for birthday wishes
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« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2010, 05:56:14 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Kerry!

Happy Birthday to Donald!
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« Reply #34 on: February 01, 2010, 06:07:11 AM »

Good morning, all! Today is also the 151st birthday of Victor Herbert and tonight I am attending a birthday concert at Lincoln Center. I believe it's presented by the Little Orchestra Society, which has done much for Herbert, although I loathed the last concert of theirs I attended - MLLE MODISTE, with a lame cast and under-rehearsed orchestra - but I have several friends singing in tonight's event and I hope it goes well. Before the event, i'm meting friends at Fiorello for dinner, so I will sadly miss the FINIAN'S RAINBOW release event at Barnes & Noble.

I have to go out today to the NYPL and to Encores! although I would rather stay in and fight this cold. This morning, I will listen to some Victor Herbert to celebrate his day.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to DR Kerry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #35 on: February 01, 2010, 06:08:18 AM »

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to Donald Feltham !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #36 on: February 01, 2010, 06:11:35 AM »

Happy Birthday, Kerry!
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« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2010, 06:11:47 AM »

Happy Birthday, Donald!
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« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2010, 06:16:07 AM »

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Artist: Al Hirschfeld (I have 10 of his signed/numbered lithos in my living room.)

Composer: Lerner & Lowe - I love all their scores.

Author:  Maybe John Steinbeck.

At one point, I was reading everything by Ludlum & Stephen King, but then I got bored with them.

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« Reply #39 on: February 01, 2010, 06:22:24 AM »

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Does this count?

Last year, I also read everything by BK (through MURDER AT THE GROVE, the last title of his I had).
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« Reply #40 on: February 01, 2010, 06:27:42 AM »

Aaron Copeland
Stephen Sondheim
Noel Coward
Vincent Van Gogh
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« Reply #41 on: February 01, 2010, 06:38:53 AM »

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The first author whose work I went crazy-mad for was Agatha Christie.  I was in seventh grade when I picked up my mother's copy of HALLOWE'EN PARTY and loved it.  Over the next few years I went through every Christie book in my local library.  It was a major event for me when her last four novels were released.  I remember how stunned I was when Hercule Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York TImes.

His obit appeared on the front pages of lots of newspapers including THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER.

I, too, love Agatha Christie, but I have never been able to compel myself to read CURTAIN. I just don't want to see his life be over. Silly, I know, but there you are. I have the book, and I know I must read it at some point, but I keep putting it off.
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« Reply #42 on: February 01, 2010, 06:40:59 AM »

And the funny thing is, I had no compunction whatsoever about reading the last Miss Marple book SLEEPING MURDER. Of course, she doesn't die at the end of it.
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« Reply #43 on: February 01, 2010, 06:42:18 AM »

Good morning!

Really evil cold this morning (12), and school is not in session since the bitter temperatures refroze all the slush from yesterday and made it hard again. Obviously, no walk this morning. If it gets to the mid-40s today as they're predicting, I may be able to walk tomorrow. So, treadmill time once again today. Ugh!
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« Reply #44 on: February 01, 2010, 06:43:08 AM »

Aaron Copeland
Stephen Sondheim
Noel Coward
Vincent Van Gogh

Hmmm...I'm trying to remember which composer I started getting into first--either Copeland or Sondheim.  My interest in both started about the same time, in ninth grade.  I first became aware of Sondheim through one of the mini-musicals performed on THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW.  I became a Copeland fan through a performance of "Appalachian Spring" on DANCE IN AMERICA on PBS.
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« Reply #45 on: February 01, 2010, 06:46:02 AM »

I loved FORREST GUMP when I saw it in the theater, and I had it on both laserdisc and DVD. I have not yet sprung for the Blu-ray. Waiting for a drastic reduction in price. I adored Gary Sinese in the film and was furious when he lost the Oscar (though Martin Landau was a good Bela Lugosi in ED WOOD).

GUMP had that peculiar kind of backlash that often hits runaway smashes. When it comes out, everyone rushes to see it, it's the critics' and people's darling, and then a year later, people turn on it and denegrate it beyond human recognition. I never understood this reaction to GUMP. The fantasy is what it is, and I don't see how the passage of time should alter that perception.
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« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2010, 06:47:57 AM »

Happy B-days to Kerry &  Donald.

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The first artist I probably fell in love with was either Dr. Suess through his books or Hal Foster, through the Prince Valiant Sunday papers.  The first composer I probably fell in love with was Edvard Grieg and his music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt of which my parents had a record.  I particularly liked the part in The Hall of The Mountain King.  First author that I fell in love with was no doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs through his Tarzan tales.
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« Reply #47 on: February 01, 2010, 06:48:19 AM »

I think the first composer I took a serious liking to was Leroy Anderson. We played some of his light symphonic pieces in band, and I immediately began getting sheet music to play on the piano and buying Arthur Fiedler LPs that featured his light pieces. Imagine my surprise to learn he had also done Broadway!
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« Reply #48 on: February 01, 2010, 06:49:38 AM »

As for authors, reading TOM SAWYER in junior high school made me an instant fan of Mark Twain, and I began to read everything I could. My grandmother had a bound set of the complete works, so I was over at her house a lot borrowing those books during high school.
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« Reply #49 on: February 01, 2010, 06:51:17 AM »

No UPS deliveries yet, so I may be watching LOLA MONTES on DVD this afternoon. That's the next scheduled work project disc in the stack.
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« Reply #50 on: February 01, 2010, 06:52:17 AM »

TV Notes:

Most shows have new episodes tonight except, surprisingly, CASTLE which is showing a rerun with new episodes on all the other networks.

Also remember that DAMAGES is on tonight at 10 on FX.
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« Reply #51 on: February 01, 2010, 06:53:07 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Kerry!!!
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« Reply #52 on: February 01, 2010, 06:53:49 AM »

And Happy Birthday to Donald, too, even though he doesn't often drop by to say hello. This is in case he does!

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« Reply #53 on: February 01, 2010, 06:55:07 AM »

Still no shipping notice for THE MUSIC MAN Blu-ray/FINIAN'S RAINBOW cast CD.

Argh!
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« Reply #54 on: February 01, 2010, 06:56:36 AM »

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Composer: I leard to read at the age of 3-4 from 78 rpm record labels: "Sabre Dance" by the Boston Pops was my favorite, so I'd guess Khatchaturian and Tchaikovsky wre my firsy two faves: "Sabre Dance" and Piano Concerto No. 1, followed by Humperdinck's HANSEL UND GRETEL, thanks to the 1954 movie and recording.

My first memory of a show composer is Richard Rodgers and the huge impact the film of THE KING AND I had at the age of 10. After seeing the film in Kansas City, MO, wile my dad was involved in a convention, my next movie on return to Ohio was CAROUSEL.
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« Reply #55 on: February 01, 2010, 07:09:01 AM »

Happy birthday, DR Kerry!
Happy birthday, Donald!
Happy birthday, Victor Herbert!
Continued good vibes, DR Ginny

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Composer: When I was about 5 or 6, I wore out an album of George M. Cohan songs. Oh, and another of "Mary Poppins," so the Sherman Bros. would have to be up there, too. Cole Porter came next, then Sondheim.

Books: "Wonderful Wizard of Oz," anything by Erle Stanley Gardner or Agatha Christie (though I read it, I don't remember anything about the end of "Curtain").

Artist: Picasso


 
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« Reply #56 on: February 01, 2010, 07:21:58 AM »

Just checked the front stoop and the side porch: no UPS deliveries, so it looks like LOLA MONTES it will be today. Actually, I'm glad as I'm dying to see this version, and I hope it fulfills my expectations in terms of scope and color.
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« Reply #57 on: February 01, 2010, 07:23:42 AM »

I still have a bunch of things on the DVR to watch including SPARTACUS' second episode and THE OFFICE from 10 days ago! And last night's BROTHERS & SISTERS. Argh!
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« Reply #58 on: February 01, 2010, 07:23:54 AM »

Now, I'm going to tidy up a few desktop items and then head downstairs to get cleaned up for lunch out today with best friend John.  Even though schools are out today, he had to go into work, so we should be doing lunch regardless.

WBBL.
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« Reply #59 on: February 01, 2010, 07:26:32 AM »

Thank you, DR John G!
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