Topic: THE BOOK SIGNING (Read 19079 times)

John G. · « **Reply #150 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:31:00 PM »

Quote from: FJL on May 23, 2010, 06:32:41 PM

I guess in a slow theater news cycle, the story of the audience getting boisterous at FENCES with Denzel Washingotn & Viola Davis seems to be popping up quite a bit. i don't know how different this is from what would happen at the James Earl Jones - Mary Alice version of FENCES in the 1980's - but it seems that two parodies are called for (based logically as a parody of Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" mirroring the famous "You are a womanless man" line in FENCES, which always gets a raucous reaction.

the boisterous and shorter "Michael & Susan" version [named as parodies of Riedel and Haskins]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7E2z90eFY

and a more straightforwardly sung version (a little longer, the scratch demo, which has some old lyrics but is more musical somehow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1namLdlMaf0

I went to see "Fenes" with Billy Dee Williams after James Earl jones left. When the scene comes when Troy brings the baby home, there wee several audible black men in the audience cheering him on and telling him to put the woman in her place and make her take the baby. It was a little shocking and yet I've noticed that I heard that same boisterous, talk-back-at-the-screen conversations when I saw "Waiting to Exhale" on opening night in a movie theater. Or any of Tyler Perry's movies. I guess it's a cultural thing, like the demonstrations you'll find in black churches on Sunday mornings. They're a lot less quiet than my conservation Lutheran background.

John G. · « **Reply #151 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:31:29 PM »

Page Six Happy Dance.

John G. · « **Reply #152 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:32:02 PM »

Great story, CillaLiz

bk · « **Reply #153 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:32:10 PM »

No ice cream for me - DONUTS for me.

John G. · « **Reply #154 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:32:42 PM »

Had two donuts today. Felt like I'd eaten a rock.

bk · « **Reply #155 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:32:55 PM »

I don't think I can watch another ninety minutes of what they're heaping on, all this "justification" that has no basis in reality, at least in my opinion. That video that Jose posted hit the nail on the head, I'm afraid.

John G. · « **Reply #156 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:33:11 PM »

A very delicious rock.

John G. · « **Reply #157 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:34:02 PM »

Cybill Shepherd and Peter Duel would have to be on my list.

bk · « **Reply #158 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:35:13 PM »

I gotta tell you.

bk · « **Reply #159 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:35:39 PM »

Of course, this two-hour "special" really runs about eighty minutes if you factor in the commercials.

bk · « **Reply #160 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:42:00 PM »

Uh oh - the DirecTV signal is totally screwed up - freezing, rolling - someone record this for me, just in case. I'm really annoyed and am on the phone trying to get tech support.

Laura · « **Reply #161 on:** May 23, 2010, 07:49:28 PM »

I suspect more than one person will be recording "Lost."

John G. · « **Reply #162 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:03:35 PM »

Off to the arms of Morpheus. Night, all.

George · « **Reply #163 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:19:38 PM »

Quote from: George on May 23, 2010, 01:17:02 AM

This afternoon, I'll be ushering at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts at a showing of the San Francisco Opera Cinema Series: Madame Butterfly. It's one in a series of four (I think) filmed operas that are shown this season at WCPA. I've seen a couple of the HD Met broadcasts and these are just as good.

The San Francisco Opera's filmed production of "Madame Butterfly" today was very good! The guy playing Pinkerton was very nice to look at (click HERE for a video clip).

George · « **Reply #164 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:20:33 PM »

After the opera, I came home and instead of watching some TV (I have four episodes of "Doctor Who" to watch) or get on the computer, I FINALLY started reading BK's autobiography, "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You": My Life in the Slow Lane." I was able to read all the way through chapter three. I love it! Can't wait to continue...and I won't wait so long to do so.

bk · « **Reply #165 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:21:30 PM »

Not looking good for my viewing anything this evening, let alone Lost. We're still trying one last thing, otherwise I have to wait until Wendesday to watch anything as that's when the technician will come.

bk · « **Reply #166 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:29:09 PM »

This is so infuriating. It's obviously not getting enough signal, although why this is happening all of a sudden (there was a problem last week, but it was momentary and then everything was fine) is anyone's guess. I looked at the dish on the roof and nothing is obstructing it. They had me pull the power cord, and also swap the two cables into the receiver (just reversing where they were), but we can't get past the first reset screen, which is the "checking cable signal" screen. If we can't get past that I get no picture, period.

bk · « **Reply #167 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:30:17 PM »

Add to that the fact that I'm uploading a huge file to iDisk because my mastering guy wanted AIFF instead of mp3 - and that takes forty-five minutes, during which the computer runs slowly and badly.

bk · « **Reply #168 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:31:54 PM »

I don't suppose there's any place online that streams the show live?

Laura · « **Reply #169 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:33:40 PM »

Maybe the whole country watching one tv show at one time is sucking all of the signal.

George · « **Reply #170 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:38:52 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on May 23, 2010, 08:33:22 AM

bk - Is this your handiwork?

Lost Series Finale Leaked!!

VERY funny!!

George · « **Reply #171 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:40:16 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 23, 2010, 08:31:54 PM

I don't suppose there's any place online that streams the show live?

Not live...as far as I know. Usually network websites will have shows available on-line the next day, but not at the same time as the TV broadcast.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #172 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:40:41 PM »

And that's all they wrote.

bk · « **Reply #173 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:48:42 PM »

Ooh, finally got past step one. Now we're on step two - getting the satellite information. We have fourteen minutes to do that and hopefully get a working picture.

bk · « **Reply #174 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:50:42 PM »

We are a go, picture-wise - just came back and is working. If it now will only hold for the next three hours, we'll be very happy. I'm still going to have the technician come out to see why these things are happening - could be a bad receiver or something, since this is the second sort of problem I've had.

George · « **Reply #175 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:54:05 PM »

Hopefully, it'll all stay good, BK!

td · « **Reply #176 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:57:42 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on May 23, 2010, 08:40:41 PM

And that's all they wrote.

My lips are sealed, my eyes teary.

td · « **Reply #177 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:58:31 PM »

Oh, and right after I logged onto HHW, the power went out for less than 3 seconds.

George · « **Reply #178 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:59:19 PM »

Quote from: TCB on May 23, 2010, 11:09:50 AM

Who was your favorite all-time TV crush? When you were a teenager, that one person (actor or actress) on the TV screen that made your heart go pitter patter.

Without a doubt - Chuck Conners, THE RIFLEMAN

Jim (then "Jm") J. Bullock was my very first TV actor crush. Probably the next one was John Corbett from "Northern Exposure." Two very different types of men.

bk · « **Reply #179 on:** May 23, 2010, 08:59:27 PM »

I doubt my eyes will be teary, but I'm just hoping the picture holds till the end

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