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Michael

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Re: THAT'S FRENCH, YOU KNOW
« Reply #240 on: July 02, 2011, 08:41:34 PM »
Card Theft must be going around.
I got a call today from Bank Of America someone in Louisianna attempted to use my ATM card yesterday. Fortunately the card was declined (twice) at a Walmart. The card was cancelled and I will have to take care of it after the holidays when I return to the US. I am glad that BOA is on the ball and know my ATM  habits and have this attempt flagged. I have no idea they got my #.  Scarey crap out there
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« Reply #241 on: July 02, 2011, 08:44:38 PM »
Quote from: JoseSPiano on July 02, 2011, 08:36:54 PM
DR elmore - Is the opening number still sort of Ionesco-ish? ;)

I loved the opening number; were they driving back from an engagement party when you saw it?

I think the cast is hoping the reviews are good and they go from a limited run to an open one. I would like to see it again. It's quite stylish. I got to meet Doug Hughes, to whom I gushed about how much I loved Barney and Helen, and Kevin Stites, who did a great job with the band. I also got to see my friends Eric Poland and Greg Jarrett who are playing in the band.
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« Reply #242 on: July 02, 2011, 08:45:53 PM »
Quote from: JoseSPiano on July 02, 2011, 08:32:46 PM
Quote from: elmore3003 on July 02, 2011, 08:26:56 PM
I have returned from DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, which has a wonderful cast, a beautiful set and costumes, and a lovely, if self-indulgent, score by Maury Yeston. I think cutting 2-3 numbers would improve the show enormously and pick up the pace of Act Two. Put them on the cast recording as Appendices, but prune. That's my advice.

I like the cast a lot. Rebecca Luker has a wonderful scene with Death in Act Two and a song about her dead son Roberto that had me weeping, and my friend Simon is excellent as the old doctor. I didn't get to see Don Stephenson after the show, but it was nice to see Jill Paice, who's the beautiful reason for a holiday by Death. She looks fantastic in those 20's gowns and sounds like an angel. I also saw Glory Crampton, who's standing by for Rebecca Luker, and she looked fantastic.

The whole cast sings very well, and the score is very well performed.  The very bizarre Max von Essen, whom i once considered a friend and since 2001 simply consider weird, was good in a role that I thought suited him very aptly, and I was knocked over by how wonderful Julian Ovenden is in the title role; he's a handsome man with a good physique that will have our DR MBarnum stalking geriatric centers for him in around 40 years.

Jill is surrounded by a nice trio of Theatre Hunks: Julian Ovenden, Max von Essen and Matt Cavenaugh.

I met Max in 1998, and we were friendly; then he came to London to record a number in John McGlinn's  LEAVE iT TO JANE in 2001 and behaved like a total asshole. I had called his hotel room and left him a message, to which he didn't respond. the next day he came to Abbey Road Studio and sat across from me and didn't speak all morning, and then after he recorded, before he headed back to Heathrow, he started talking to me, saying things like "don't I know you? weren't we friends?"

You can have him, I don't want him, he's too crazy for me.
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Re: THAT'S FRENCH, YOU KNOW
« Reply #243 on: July 02, 2011, 09:14:13 PM »
I hear fireworks across the alley.
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Re: THAT'S FRENCH, YOU KNOW
« Reply #244 on: July 02, 2011, 09:18:27 PM »
Quote from: FJL on July 02, 2011, 08:08:46 PM
Quote from: JoseSPiano on July 02, 2011, 08:05:46 PM
Quote from: JMK on July 02, 2011, 08:00:21 PM
Quote from: JoseSPiano on July 02, 2011, 07:55:18 PM
Quote from: bk on July 02, 2011, 08:17:32 AM
I suspect some of our GUESTS came because of the article.  I suspect some of our GUESTS are here for the reasons stated by Jose.  I suspect some of our GUESTS are the same old, same old, including a couple of people we all know and don't love.

DR JMK - Please note, there are three - count 'em three - sentences/reasons/explanations/possibilities in bk's post. I did not reference no stinkin' article.

Yes, but I had incorrectly assumed they were all interrelated.

And you know what happens you "assume"... ::)



"ODD COUPLE ASSUME" BLACKBOARD DANCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvTwv5o1Qs




One of my all time favorite Odd Couple scenes
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« Reply #245 on: July 02, 2011, 09:26:58 PM »
Tomorrow I'm going to go to the lake.  I'm going to get up and leave before 8:00 our time so I can listen to the closings in the Casey Anthony case,  I can get them on XM radio.   Since Cheney Mason is a friend of mine, I'm hoping he'll do the defense closing, or at least part of it.  I haven't listened to too much of the trial, so I think it will be interesting to listen to closings.  That's really when both sides tie it all together.
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« Reply #246 on: July 02, 2011, 09:34:33 PM »
They are having the trial on Sunday?
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« Reply #247 on: July 02, 2011, 09:37:44 PM »
Yup.  They start at 9:00 AM eastern time. 
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« Reply #248 on: July 02, 2011, 09:38:25 PM »
Wow.
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« Reply #249 on: July 02, 2011, 09:38:36 PM »
On a Sunday? Amazing.
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« Reply #250 on: July 02, 2011, 09:38:58 PM »
I think everyone involved, including the sequestered jury, wants to end this thing.
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« Reply #251 on: July 02, 2011, 09:39:21 PM »
Yeah.  We've had Saturday court, but never Sunday court
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« Reply #252 on: July 02, 2011, 09:39:25 PM »
The online paper says we reached 118 today.
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« Reply #253 on: July 02, 2011, 09:39:58 PM »
Congratulations, you win.
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« Reply #254 on: July 02, 2011, 09:40:12 PM »
I don't want to be in that contest, lol
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« Reply #255 on: July 02, 2011, 09:40:26 PM »
My DH was away for several weeks in a place where he had a television to watch. He was telling me about this trial. I guess he was kinda bored.
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« Reply #256 on: July 02, 2011, 09:40:50 PM »
Well, I stayed inside most of the day, so I guess I missed it.
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Re: THAT'S FRENCH, YOU KNOW
« Reply #257 on: July 02, 2011, 09:43:42 PM »
Jane, I had an eggplant explode in the oven once. The memory is vague, but I think I didn't pierce it adequately beforehand.
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« Reply #258 on: July 02, 2011, 09:44:21 PM »
I do not like bleu cheese. Or even blue cheese. (Very hard to type "bleu".)
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« Reply #259 on: July 02, 2011, 09:45:05 PM »
Avocado ice cream?? Now there's an unlikely combination.
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« Reply #260 on: July 02, 2011, 09:45:30 PM »
I haven't watched a lot, but have heard bits and pieces.  I do think it's a winable defense case.  The defense may have lost it with their tactics, though.  I really want to hear how they sum it up. I'm recording it from HLN so I can listen to it when I get home.  I doubt they will get through all the arguments in the 2 hours I can listen while driving to the lake
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« Reply #261 on: July 02, 2011, 09:45:58 PM »
TTFN.
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« Reply #262 on: July 02, 2011, 09:46:13 PM »
I would like to try avocado ice cream. 
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« Reply #263 on: July 02, 2011, 09:46:36 PM »
I did get all my laundry done today. 
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« Reply #264 on: July 02, 2011, 09:47:06 PM »
Boo Boo has been freaking out a bit tonight. I think it's all the fireworks.
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« Reply #265 on: July 02, 2011, 09:47:39 PM »
since I'm going to start early in the morning, I better get to bed.

Night
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« Reply #266 on: July 02, 2011, 09:51:12 PM »
Good night, all.
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« Reply #267 on: July 02, 2011, 10:29:51 PM »
TOD:


I am still trying to master English.












(Had to say it, so that DR Elmore would not have to  :D )
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« Reply #268 on: July 02, 2011, 10:33:03 PM »
TOD:

I studied Spanish, German, and Japanese in middle school/high school.

I remember very little about Spanish, can read German and understand a bit of it, and never made much headway with Japanese.

Hindi I am picking up on. Don't speak it too well, but when I watch a Hindi film that has no subtitles, I can sometimes figure out what they are saying.

As for favorite languages to hear: Japanese and Hindi both sound beautiful to me, when spoken.
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« Reply #269 on: July 02, 2011, 10:35:23 PM »
Big Lots put out a big dump of $5 dvds. I found Universal's Mae West collection in it...5 of her movies...NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, I'M NO ANGEL, GOING TO TOWN, GO WEST YOUNG MAN, and MY LITTLE CHICKADEE...all 5 for just $5!

The Marlon Brando and Marlene Deitrich sets were there also, but I did not buy them.
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