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[Michael]

I am a boy who doesn't want to read a book or see a movie with a title that begins with The Girl Who....

Unless it features Miss Annette Funicello in a bathing suit singing a song to Fabian.....dressed likewise.

I can't imagine Fabian wearing the bathing suit that Annette does

[Druxy]

Today I  will audition for NEVER TOO LATE.

I recall seeing Andy Devine doing that show back in the late 1960s at the Valley Music Theatre.

[Michael]

I cannot find a recording of Maybe elsewhere. Why was it not available?

[Matthew]

DR Ginny   Epcot is your best choice.  It's my favorite of all the parks at WDW.  When Mom and I go, we could spend the entire time there.

[Kerry]

PUDDING!

[Kerry]

PUDDING!

And since it's Free-For-All Day, FREE PUDDING!!!!!  FOR ALL!

[Jrand73]

EPCOT

[Jrand73]

NEVER TOO LATE is so funny....and I love the movie.....with Mr Paul Ford, although I am less in love with the performance of Miss Maureen O'Sullivan.....Connie Stevens and Jim Hutton.....

And though there is NO star power there - I think Jane Wyatt who plays Grace would have been a dynamite Edith!

[elmore3003]

My favorite Mary Steenburgen film will always be TIME AFTER TIME.

Yes, indeedy! I also liked her in MELVIN AND HOWARD.

What should have been, at most, a 75-minute round trip ended up being over two hours because the MTA has really screwed up the transit system this morning: I got to the subway to find there was no service and that meant a walk to 72nd Street. Because I was in a hurry, I figured I'd just take a taxi down, so we sat at 75th Street because a huge truck couldn't make a turn, and as we sat, my fare went from $2.90 to $4+, so I paid the driver and walked to 72nd Street and finally an express subway pulled up. I got off at 34th and walked the seven blocks to 27th Street. That all took me around 45 minutes instead of what usually at the most is 20.

I got my stuff together in 10 minutes and then waited 20 minutes at a bus stop where two buses I can take usually stop. This morning the bus wasn't running above 42nd Street so I had to get off there and walk to Seventh Avenue and take the subway to 72nd Street. Needless angst. So I got home drenched in sweat and climbed into the tub. I may be cooled off but I am still pissed!

[KevinH]

Good morning. 

I'm glad to say my electricity is back after being off for about an hour this morning.  I'm on my way to Target, Kohl's and the supermarket.

[Cillaliz]

JRand, even if this is what she looks like?

[Jrand73]

LOL DR CILLA LIZ - I saw that girl at Putnam County Playhouse auditions for BYE BYE BIRDIE.  She wanted to be Kim.

[Druxy]

NEVER TOO LATE is so funny....and I love the movie.....with Mr Paul Ford, although I am less in love with the performance of Miss Maureen O'Sullivan.....Connie Stevens and Jim Hutton.....

And though there is NO star power there - I think Jane Wyatt who plays Grace would have been a dynamite Edith!

I don't recall who played the wife in the Devine production, but my friend, Gigi Perreau, was the daughter and Will Hutchins was the son-in-law.

BK,

Do you recall who played the wife in that Valley Music Theatre production?

[td]

I went to a library book sale yesterday morning and picked up two over-flowing bags of books for $4.00.  Ended up with 18 books, two of which contain 3 or more novels.  My greatest find was a copy of Very Caspary's LAURA, though I did get quite a few Michener novels as well.

[td]

Last night, I ventured downtown for the CLO production of THE PRODUCERS which had a top-billed (!) Joey Fantone as Franz.  The reason I was going was the actor playing Leo Bloom:  Jim Stanek, who I had not seen in four years. 
To say that this production was a delight from start to finish would be an understatement.  I had forgotten how side-splittingly funny the book is when done properly.  This production hit every note, every laugh and every groan for an enjoyable evening.
Of all the Blooms I've seen:  Matthew Broderick, Don Stephenson and Hunter Foster, Jim Stanek was indeed the best.  He made Bloom his very own creation and left his mark on the character.  His was also the best-sung Bloom I've ever heard.
Jim and I spent a long time after the show catching up and he introduced me to his ever-lovin' wife.
Here's a photo from after the show:

[td]

I like Mary Steenburgen in the aforementioned films as well as in CROSS CREEK.

[Jrand73]

Jim Stanek!!!!  Nice legs!

[Jrand73]

Can't please everybody, as the newspaper reports. 

[td]

Jim Stanek!!!!  Nice legs!

Best smile, too.

[MBarnum]

I know....I know....I am a culture hound.

I know....I know....I am a culture hound.

That's culture, with a capital "K"

[elmore3003]

I know....I know....I am a culture hound.

I know....I know....I am a culture hound.

That's culture, with a capital "K"

Writes the man with Klass!

[Jrand73]

Klass Kulture - itz all the same to me....I'm the first hog to the trough.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and I'll be jogging soon.

[bk]

Druxy, I don't know who the co-star was.

[bk]

I would like to read the Larsson books but I don't read fiction anymore since I started writing it. 

[Druxy]

Druxy, I don't know who the co-star was.

 

[ArnoldMBrockman]

And the word of the day is: PALLADIAN!

And The Song Of The Day Is:  ATHENA

[Thom]

"Romantic Comedy" ordered, even though I typed "Romantic Comedt."  Stupid key board.   

[John G.]

My favorite Mary Steenburgen film will always be TIME AFTER TIME.

I like that film too. I believe it was her first film or second or third. There is a great score by Miklós Rózsa. Also liked her in One Magic Christmas, Ragtime. The Whales of August and The Grass Harp.

Liked her in "Grass Harp," too.

[ArnoldMBrockman]

As promised, here's the new Kritzerland release - if you'd like one, it's $19.98 plus 3.75 shipping via paypal to kritzerland at adelphia dot net.


ONLY TWO THINGS CAN SCREW UP THEIR RELATIONSHIP.  HE’S ONE, SHE’S THE OTHER

Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere limited edition soundtrack CD:

ROMANTIC COMEDY

Music Composed and Conducted by Marvin Hamlisch

Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy opened on November 8, 1979 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway, starring Anthony Perkins and Mia Farrow.  It had a very healthy run of 396 performances and was the kind of, well, romantic comedy that’s become an endangered species, both on Broadway and film.  In 1983, The Mirisch Corporation brought Romantic Comedy to the screen, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen.  The story is classic romantic comedy – Jason Carmichael hasn’t written a hit play since he and his writing partner split up.  On the day of his wedding, in comes Phoebe Craddock, a quirky, funny, and endearing writer, who becomes his new partner.   Through hits and flops, through marriages and divorces, the two flirt with their own romantic comedy – the closest of friends, the nearest of lovers and finally finding their happy ending.  Moore and Steenburgen were terrific as the collaborators in everything but their own romantic comedy.

Reviews were mostly fine, with Roger Ebert especially enjoying the film for what it was.

“Not a whole heck of a lot happens in ‘Romantic Comedy’ but it happens so charmingly, and with such quick spirit and wit, that it's enough. This is the kind of movie Hollywood used to make to exploit the sheer charm of its great stars – performers like Cary Grant or Katherine Hepburn, who were so wonderful to watch that all you had to do was find something for them to say. The stars this time are Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen. Together, they have the sort of chemistry that might make any dialog work, and certainly works in Bernard Slade's story about a couple of playwrights who collaborate for years and years before they find the courage to finally come right out and kiss each other.”

For the score, director Hiller turned to award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch and it was a perfect match of composer and film.  Hamlisch basically came up with one theme for the film and then finds the most beautiful ways to present it – whether up tempo or slow, mournful or romantic, it’s a great theme (and one you’ll be humming for weeks), and while not many composers could make that approach work, Hamlisch does it with nary a false note.  

For this CD, we used the original three-track session masters housed in the MGM vaults.   While we would have loved to include the song “Maybe” that plays over the end credits (sung by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack – and credited to Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager, and Burt Bacharach), it wasn’t available to us.  Happily, Hamlisch recorded an instrumental of the theme, which is what we’ve used to close out the CD.  While the score is fairly short, we do present every note of it.   It’s always a pleasure to bring more Marvin Hamlisch to CD – the world certainly needs more Hamlisch and it certainly can use a lot more romantic comedy.

This release is limited to 1000 copies only.  The price is $19.98 plus shipping

CD will ship by the end of August – however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early).   To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

For Some Reason I can Not Get Romantic Comedy on The Kritzerland Site.

Why Not? I Don't Know! ?