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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2010, 06:59:39 AM »
Quote from: Jennifer on March 09, 2010, 06:54:10 AM

I just read this:

Why weren't Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur included in the "In Memoriam" package on Sunday's Oscars telecast?

Academy spokesperson Penny Melidonian pointed out that both actresses were better known for television. "We cannot include everyone," she said.


I didn't watch the Oscars, but I bet Michael Jackson was included and he made fewer films than Farrah or Bea Arthur.
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2010, 06:59:51 AM »
Quote from: Jennifer on March 09, 2010, 06:50:12 AM
One more comment re: something DRs MattH and TCB said last night about Tom Hanks just saying the winner for Best Picture (and not listing them).

Here is my point. I watched the entire show. But if you asked me to list you right now the entire 10 nominated movies. Well I couldn't do it.

DR Jennifer - You mean you didn't print out your own Oscar ballot? ;)

Seriously... Even though there were 10 films nominated this year, there were really only 3 true contenders for the top honor of the evening. People had their favorites, and if it turned out that their favorite was not the one that Tom Hanks read aloud at the end, well... That's really all that matters.

*And even though I only caught the last 45 minutes of the broadcast, I could still name at least seven of the ten nominated films right off the top of my head.  It's all part of the "prep" before Oscar night.

**And I'm sure that if they had read the names of all ten Best Picture nominees, by the time the winner was read, I - (and probably you - ?) - would not be able to rattle off all ten without having to consult some sort of written list.  The "joys" of short-term memory.
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« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2010, 06:59:56 AM »
Lost Producers: What It Means to Be a Candidate, What's the "Sideways" World

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Producers-Means-1015991.aspx

I read this article (not too spoilerish) but did not click on the 13 clues link in it (i could tell it was gonna be very spoilerish).
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2010, 07:00:35 AM »
Quote from: Laura on March 09, 2010, 06:58:13 AM
Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 09, 2010, 06:53:11 AM
Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And the oatmeal has been consumed, the coffee has been brewed and is currently being sipped, and another load of laundry is in the washer.  Sounds like a full day to me! ;)

Sounds like my morning.

Do you get to spend the afternoon with a printer salesman, too?

I believe that only happens in one of DR elmore's VCR movies.
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« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2010, 07:00:50 AM »
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« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2010, 07:05:23 AM »
Quote from: Jennifer on March 09, 2010, 06:59:56 AM
Lost Producers: What It Means to Be a Candidate, What's the "Sideways" World

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Producers-Means-1015991.aspx

I read this article (not too spoilerish) but did not click on the 13 clues link in it (i could tell it was gonna be very spoilerish).

DR Jennifer - The other links aren't that "spoilerish" either.  There's simply no way the producers and writers would leak any real information about the final episodes.  Additionally, most of those links link to previous articles about "Lost" on that site, TVGuide.com and other TV sites.  So, if you've been keeping up with Things "Lost" on the web, there's really no new information.
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2010, 07:09:31 AM »
Quote from: Jennifer on March 09, 2010, 06:50:12 AM
One more comment re: something DRs MattH and TCB said last night about Tom Hanks just saying the winner for Best Picture (and not listing them).

Here is my point. I watched the entire show. But if you asked me to list you right now the entire 10 nominated movies. Well I couldn't do it.

The fact of the matter is, however, that you saw the show and the ten nominees, and you know the winner. That's ALL that's important. If you want to know what the other nine nominees were, there are PLENTY of places you can go to for that information after the fact.
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #37 on: March 09, 2010, 07:11:21 AM »
Good morning!

It was 38 degrees this morning, and I wore a light jacket over my sweatshirt (which I probably didn't need to do). The walk was more exhausting this morning; I'm not sure why that was so. Anyway, it's definitely warming up here.
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« Reply #38 on: March 09, 2010, 07:13:58 AM »
As I mentioned Sunday night, Michael Jackson didn't have a great movie career, but he did have a hit film out last year that garnered a worldwide audience.
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« Reply #39 on: March 09, 2010, 07:14:58 AM »
My work project for today is DILLINGER IS DEAD from Italy via a Criterion DVD. The liner notes make it sound very weird, and I'm wary about its content. Hopefully, it'll be a nice surprise and a hidden treasure.
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« Reply #40 on: March 09, 2010, 07:16:48 AM »
Lots of new TV episodes tonight including (for me) NCIS, NCIS: LA, LOST, SOUTHLAND, and the season finale of WHITE COLLAR.


Note SOUTHLAND, DR JRand!
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« Reply #41 on: March 09, 2010, 07:20:17 AM »
TOD:

Jean Maris - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEE.
Gulietta Masina - LA STRADA
Jean-Paul Belmondo - BREATHLESS
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« Reply #42 on: March 09, 2010, 07:20:54 AM »
Off to see the wizard my mom...bye for now!
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #43 on: March 09, 2010, 07:27:20 AM »
Not only were Farah Fawcett and Bea Arthur excluded in the Oscar memorial but what about Harve Presnell, Arnold Stang, and Edward Woodward, among others?

BK, very BIG package day?
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #44 on: March 09, 2010, 07:37:53 AM »
Going to finish up some computer trifles before heading downstairs and catching up with some shows recorded from last night's prime time lineup.

WBBL.
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #45 on: March 09, 2010, 07:45:12 AM »
As for the Topic of the Day...

Philippe Noiret - "Cinema Paradiso", "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?"
Daniel Auteuil - "My Best Friend", "En Coeur en Hiver", "Les Voluers" ("Thieves")
Gérard Depardieu - "Jean de Florette", "Tous les Matins due Monde", "Le Retour de Martin Guerre", etc., etc., etc.
Miou-Miou - "La Lectrice"
Isabelle Huppert - "8 Femmes", "La Pianiste"
Marco Leonardi - "Cinema Paradiso", "Like Water for Chocolate"

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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #46 on: March 09, 2010, 07:47:07 AM »
Re:  The Oscar In Memorium topic:

Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report has tweeted:

"Oscars say that next year they will double the number of dead people who qualify for the montage. "
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« Reply #47 on: March 09, 2010, 07:52:45 AM »
For those DRs who may want to take advantage of some last-minute travel deals this weekend - leave on Saturday, return on Monday or Tuesday...

Jet Blue Cheaps

PDX <-> LGB from $79 each way
BOS <-> SEA from $99 each way!
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #48 on: March 09, 2010, 08:01:05 AM »
Quote from: Dan (the Man) on March 09, 2010, 07:47:07 AM
Re:  The Oscar In Memorium topic:

Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report has tweeted:

"Oscars say that next year they will double the number of dead people who qualify for the montage. "

Well, they do what they can.....
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Re: THE ESPECIALLY TIRED NOTES
« Reply #49 on: March 09, 2010, 08:22:45 AM »
Quote from: Dan (the Man) on March 09, 2010, 06:14:29 AM
Two Yanks for DR Elmore -- that could be a title of..something...

Or something else....like a euphemism for staying power!
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« Reply #50 on: March 09, 2010, 08:25:04 AM »
Quote from: Julie on March 09, 2010, 06:43:08 AM
Last night, BK wrote:

"I had an interesting call from a producer in NY who will be doing sort of an off-Broadway version of Encores for off-B'way musicals.  First up is Promenade.  He wanted to know about recording the series, so I gave him some information and he asked me if he could use Kritzerland's name in his press release and I said sure - no harm, really."


Bruce - this immediately reminded me of something that I remembered being publicly announced a couple years ago, but then I hadn't heard any more about it.

I looked up my notes from the time and found this -- does this sound like the same project / people?  What made me think of it was your reference to Promenade.


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NYTW Plans to Produce Off-Broadway Musical Revival Concert Series

James C. Nicola, artistic director of the New York Theater Workshop, has announced plans to present a series of concerts of previously produced Off-Broadway musicals.

Similar to the City Center Encores! series — which offers great American musicals in concert form — the plan is to produce three shows per season, starting next fall, in low-tech (no set) concert versions.

"We could go for decades and never run out of interesting things, particularly if you're not too terribly rigid about defining Off-Broadway," Nicola told The New York Times.

Al Carmines and Maria Irene Fornes' Promenade (1969) as well as Doug Dyer, Gretchen Cryer and Peter Link's Iphigenia in Concert (1971) have been mentioned as titles to launch the series.

Works by Nancy Ford and the team of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt are also being considered. The Times reports Doug Wright, Michael Greif and James Lapine have expressed interest in participating in the new series.

"I'm also hoping it would be a breeding ground for revised versions of things that maybe in the moment didn't find their final form," added Nicola.

Yep, sounds exactly the same, save for the name of the producer who called me - so maybe the guy who called me has joined this other chap.
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« Reply #51 on: March 09, 2010, 08:28:22 AM »
I'm up and hopefully CDs will be here bright and early.  I have some orders here that are overdue for shipping because the online dealers sometimes neglect to put the title of the CD in the invoice and everything just gets really confusing.  In fact, I'm thinking of letting go some of these dealers who only order under ten copies.
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« Reply #52 on: March 09, 2010, 08:32:31 AM »
The Word of the Day used in a sentence:


"Meanwhile, Ricky sat Lucy down and tried to 'splain for the 'steenth time how important it was for her to stay within her household budget."
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« Reply #53 on: March 09, 2010, 08:42:25 AM »
Quote from: Ginny on March 09, 2010, 06:41:37 AM
DR Elmore - break a leg tonight!  Who else is on the panel with you?

I don't know. Full report after.
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« Reply #54 on: March 09, 2010, 08:46:47 AM »
Elmo!! Have some fun!!!
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« Reply #55 on: March 09, 2010, 08:48:52 AM »
Maybe Elinor Burkett, the producer of Music for Prudence will be there!
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« Reply #56 on: March 09, 2010, 08:49:07 AM »
Morning DR PENNYO!
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« Reply #57 on: March 09, 2010, 08:51:05 AM »
I just got a box o' books from Chicken Soup for the Soul - "Thanks, Mom" is hitting the bookstores on March 23, for Mothers' Day sales... and I have a story in there!!! Got a couple of author events in Idaho next week, and one the actual week of Mothers' Day, up in La Canada - pronounced Lah Can-yah-dah - near LA...

AND!!! just got a commission for the book of a (vanity) musical. Guy wants it written around his specific philosophy, with excerpts from his actual life... hey, I can do that!!! He'll pay me half in advance, this week. If the check clears, scribble scribble scribble!!!

What else? Oh, the weather outside's delightful!! And there are hummingbirds in the little garden I made on my friend's balcony. Life is FINE!!!
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« Reply #58 on: March 09, 2010, 08:51:59 AM »
Howdy, JRand!!

Gotta head to the shower, hit the gym for ye olde yoga class, then head out to Tarzana to take my cousin Tina to the shrink... more laters, skaters!
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« Reply #59 on: March 09, 2010, 09:20:20 AM »
Great news from DR PENNYO!
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