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[JoseSPiano]

I discovered this shortly after removing five miniature sweaters from the washing machine

SPOO!!!

Could you turn them into placemats? Or knit them all together into a caftan?

[JoseSPiano]

~~~~~!!!!!PAGE FIVE!!!!!~~~~~

[TCB]

Does anybody know anyone who lives in Arizona?

Isn't that where Laura used to live?

[TCB]

I heard Cason lives in AS

Is that Arkansas?

[bk]

I heard a rather vicious rumor just now that Cason is living in Arizona with the love child of Sandra.  Can anyone confirm or deny or, at the very least, deny or confirm?

[JoseSPiano]

[JoseSPiano]

Since I was asked:


http://www.pgcruises.com/
513 feet (156.5 meters) long
332 guests
Crew to guest ratio of 1 to 1.5
Complimentary beverages including fine wines and premium spirits, soft drinks, bottled water, coffee and tea served throughout the ship

From what I've been told we will have an all Tahitian staff. 
The stops are very close to each other & several of the excursions at different stops are the same, just beginning from a different port.

DR Jane - Your upcoming cruise looks amazing!

-I bet that's one of the few cruise lines that does not have any Filipino stewards.

My piano teacher in college loved Bora Bora. She and her husband went on a vacation there a couple of years ago. They stayed on/in one of those "water huts". And they loved it.

[TCB]

I began watching the Suchet Poirot Murder of Roger Ackroyd last night.  Of course it can't properly handle Christie's original sleight of hand with how the story is framed in the novel, but it's rather well done IMHO.

I thought Poirot's first name was Hercule?

[JoseSPiano]

And now I need to take care of the last bit of packing for my trek back down to DC tomorrow morning. I'll be heading to the Metropolitan Room to see Amanda McBroom and Michelle Brourman later, and once I get back tonight, all I really want to and should do is get some sleep.

But I'm sure I'll check in here too.

Laters...

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all! I have an event-filled day today: lunch at 1pm with my friend Joseph Rubin, who's now employed by the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (or NYGASP). We have a project that may start up soon, and it's time to catch up on things. Following that Zach Appel, the young baritone friend of our DR PennyO, is stopping by here for a visit. Zach is now in the opera program of Manhattan School of Music and working with Dona D Vaughn, the mother of my beloved goddaughter Charlotte.

Last night I watched about half of the Rene Clement film GERVAISE, based on the Zola novel L'Assommoir, with Maria Schell as Gervaise Macquart, laundress on the road to hell. Shortly after the banquet sequence and return of Gervaise's lover, which is the halfway point of the novel when everything in the story going well goes to hell as the Coupeaus become alcoholics and lose everythong, the disc began pixilating and freezing, so I had to turn it off. I read the novel while I was in Dublin, and I'd been looking forward to the film. It's too short: events covering 20 years seem to happen daily, the costumes don't move well from the 1850s to 1870, but I loved Suzy Delair as Gervaise's false friend Virginie, although she's more blatantly conniving and duplicitous than the character of the novel. The actress Florelle, star of Kurt Weill's French musical play MARIE GALANTE, plays Gervaise mother-in-law, Madame Coupeau. Now we need a good BBC miniseries of the great novel Nana, Zola's sequel about the rise and fall of Gervaise's daughter, who becomes the biggest musical theatre star in Paris, as well as the biggest whore bankrupting Parisian noblemen and millionaires, before she and the Second Empire die in the Franco-Prussian War.

I'm rereading NANA at the moment, and then I plan to read Zola's novels about two of Gervaise's sons, Germinal, about labor unrest, and Le Bete Humaine, about a serial killer.

GERVAISE is the word!

In my household, anyway!

Is anyone watching "Once Upon A Time" at 8:00? I hope it's good.

[TCB]

I think Kerry lives in Arizona, too.

Are you sure?

[TCB]

Dr Sandra lives in Arizona

So, she is living with Cason?

[TCB]

I opened the Sunday newspaper this morning to find that two very dear friends, as well as very talented theater people passed away.  The first, my friend Elly, I saw just three weeks ago at Milt's memorial service.  I had been told before I saw her that she had cancer, so I was surprised at how great she looked and acted.  She was one of the Tacoma Little Theatre legends back in the 60s.  I remember her best for her performance as Reno Sweeney in ANYTHING GOES back in 1964.  I had the chance to work with Elly and her husband, only once; and that was in THE BAKER'S WIFE.

[Jane]

Does anybody know anyone who lives in Arizona?

Isn't that where Laura used to live?

Nope Cilla used to live there.

[Jane]

Since I was asked:


http://www.pgcruises.com/
513 feet (156.5 meters) long
332 guests
Crew to guest ratio of 1 to 1.5
Complimentary beverages including fine wines and premium spirits, soft drinks, bottled water, coffee and tea served throughout the ship

From what I've been told we will have an all Tahitian staff. 
The stops are very close to each other & several of the excursions at different stops are the same, just beginning from a different port.

-I bet that's one of the few cruise lines that does not have any Filipino stewards.

Our Baltic cruise was staffed mostly with Romanians.  Since our then daughter in-law was Romanian they were very friendly. 

We have two days in Bora Bora.

[TCB]

The other death was even more shocking to me, because Mike was a very dear friend.  He apparently died back at the end of September, while on vacation in Dublin.  His body was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled on a cliff overlooking the Irish Sea.  What is shocking to me is that his wife never bothered to even send me an e-mail to tell me that Mike had died.  Mike and I went to Vegas together a couple of years ago, and I had the pleasure of introducing a very star-struck Mike to Brent Barrett after PHANTOM.

[elmore3003]

I opened the Sunday newspaper this morning to find that two very dear friends, as well as very talented theater people passed away.  The first, my friend Elly, I saw just three weeks ago at Milt's memorial service.  I had been told before I saw her that she had cancer, so I was surprised at how great she looked and acted.  She was one of the Tacoma Little Theatre legends back in the 60s.  I remember her best for her performance as Reno Sweeney in ANYTHING GOES back in 1964.  I had the chance to work with Elly and her husband, only once; and that was in THE BAKER'S WIFE.

I'm so sorry, DR TCB.

[Jane]

DR TCB so many friends to lose at once.  My condolences to you and their families!!

[elmore3003]

I am enjoying ONCE UPON A TIME very much. I like the connection between the fairy tale wrld of Rumpelstiltskin, Snow Whte and others and the town of Storybrook, Maine. My friend Raphael Sbarge is playing Jiminy Cricket.

[TCB]

I opened the Sunday newspaper this morning to find that two very dear friends, as well as very talented theater people passed away.  The first, my friend Elly, I saw just three weeks ago at Milt's memorial service.  I had been told before I saw her that she had cancer, so I was surprised at how great she looked and acted.  She was one of the Tacoma Little Theatre legends back in the 60s.  I remember her best for her performance as Reno Sweeney in ANYTHING GOES back in 1964.  I had the chance to work with Elly and her husband, only once; and that was in THE BAKER'S WIFE.

I'm so sorry, DR TCB.

Thanks, elmore.

[TCB]

DR TCB so many friends to loose at once.  My condolences to you and their families!!

Thanks, Jane.

[Jane]

DR TCB so many friends to loose at once.  My condolences to you and their families!!

Thanks, Jane.

I noticed I added an extra o.  I will go back & fix that.

[TCB]

Since I was asked:


http://www.pgcruises.com/
513 feet (156.5 meters) long
332 guests
Crew to guest ratio of 1 to 1.5
Complimentary beverages including fine wines and premium spirits, soft drinks, bottled water, coffee and tea served throughout the ship

From what I've been told we will have an all Tahitian staff. 
The stops are very close to each other & several of the excursions at different stops are the same, just beginning from a different port.

-I bet that's one of the few cruise lines that does not have any Filipino stewards.

Our Baltic cruise was staffed mostly with Romanians.  Since our then daughter in-law was Romanian they were very friendly. 

We have two days in Bora Bora.

The only problem I have with Paul Gauguin's Tahiti cruises is the same thing I didn't like about my Italian cruise - I had no days at sea.  I really love the cruising part, and to me it is heaven when you wake up on board ship with no place that you need to go, and nothing that you need to do.  When you wake up every morning at a new port, you might as well have been teleported from one place to another.  But that is just me.  My sister hates the days at sea, because she wants to go out shopping or exploring, not sitting around with nothing to do.

But the Paul Gauguin cruise ships are incredible.

[ArnoldMBrockman]

I Believe I Heard A Rumor(not substantiated) That Everbody on The Haines His Way Site Is Moving To Arizona.

[Jane]

I like the first day out at sea to adjust to jet lag & one at the end to relax before the return trip.  I prefer not to have many in-between.  This will be interesting not having any.  As far as I know the best view of the islands will be from our balcony.  Many of the ports on the Balta cruise were an easy walk or bus ride away without doing any excursions.  We had plenty of time to enjoy the ship on our return.

[Jane]

I Believe I Heard A Rumor(not substantiated) That Everbody on The Haines His Way Site Is Moving To Arizona.

[TCB]

G'night!

[Jane]

'night

[td]

My condolences to DR TCB on his losses.

[Michael]

TCB

So sorry to hear about the loses of your friends