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[bk]

I agree they should have shut down the producer of I am My Own Wife - I forgot to mention that I was screaming at my television at that point.  I also agree that Avenue Q's ad campaign won it the Tony (not saying WHO should have won, just why they won it).  You will be seeing more movie-like Tony campaigns in the future.

I slept really late this morning, unusual but needed.

[bk]

Oh, and we do have a topic of the day - we've had one response to it so far, which leads me to believe... No, I will NOT believe it.

[Jrand74]

True DB - but we close personal friends call him Nathan...LOL.  And yes, it would have been interesting to talk to them about THAT!

RLP - you are so right, sometimes a download seems to help or be a good idea but instead it is nightmare.  If you use Google you might check on the Google toolbar....it is also a pop up stopper and doesn't lead to anything else, although you have the search toolbar at the top.  It does a great job, and it's free!  So far 4486 popups have been blocked for me!

[Jrand74]

And did no one check out Stairway to the Stars yesterday?

[Ben]

I will go for the obvious on the TOD (BTW I did read the notes, I was just so caught up in my own Tony fever that I never answered it).

I will go back and have dinner with Mr. Shakespeare and bring back a pristine copy of the First Folio.

[Noel]

Worse and more of it - his comments did the show a great disservice! There are too many people who think the show is about transsexualism when, in fact, the show deals very little with sexual orientation; it's major themes revolve around integrity, loyalty, and efforts at self-preservation.

I have not seen I Am My Own Wife
so I may be wrong that its protagonist lives through a time when homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle, and also in a Communist land where homosexuals were second-class citizens.

It's always a white-knuckle moment when anyone says anything remotely political at an awards show, but I can't blame the show's producer for attempting to point out the parallel to our times, when a president wants to legislate second-class status by amending the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage.

Maybe some citizen was tuning in to hear Tony Bennett and heard this speech and started thinking about the November election.  (It could happen!) And if one such person changes his vote from Bush to Kerry, I, for one, will always be glad this speech was there.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

I read a sweet and funny book this weekend, Almost Like Being in Love. (Disclaimer: the author, Steve Kluger, is a friend.) I do recommend it enthusiastically and feel that it, like Kritzer Time, deserves a place in school libraries. Also like Kritzer Time, it includes some wonderful references to Broadway musicals.

Here's the publisher's summary:

A high-school jock and nerd [a Broadway musical-obsessed nerd] fall in love their senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch in the beginning, but then slowly drift apart. Flash forward twenty years. Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers and loves. But something is missing - Travis is the first to figure it out. He's still in love with Craig, and come what may, he's going to go after the boy who captured his heart.

[Sandra]

I read the notes too, BK! I would go back with Ben to meet Shakespeare and beg him not to write King Lear. That would have made things much easier for me a few semesters ago.

But if there's only room for one in our time machine, I would want to meet Houdini and say "Warn the duke!"

[Panni]

I just deleted my theory as to why people were ignoring the TOD because they now seem to be responding. BTW - "TOD" in German means "death"... So TOD makes me think of an obit. Just thought I'd throw that in.

[Dan (the Man)]

True DB - but we close personal friends call him Nathan...LOL.  And yes, it would have been interesting to talk to them about THAT!

RLP - you are so right, sometimes a download seems to help or be a good idea but instead it is nightmare.  If you use Google you might check on the Google toolbar....it is also a pop up stopper and doesn't lead to anything else, although you have the search toolbar at the top.  It does a great job, and it's free!  So far 4486 popups have been blocked for me!

Jrand, i use the Google toolbar, too--it's almost excellent.  I say "almost" because lately it hasn't been blocking pop-ups on Drudgereport.com (but I guess it serves me right for going there, anyway...)

As for spyware removing utilities, I use a combination of Spybot Search and Destroy and SpySweeper, which can be found at webroot.com.  The only problem with SpySweeper is that it requires that you purchase a subscription for updates, but you can get around that by uninstalling and then downloading a new version.  It's worth it, though.  AdAware pales in comparison.

[Noel]

I enjoyed Stones In His Pocket on Broadway, impressed by the virtuosity of the two Irish actors.

I'm not much on time travel questions.

Real travel: the next two weeks, DW Joy and I will be out of town and, most likely, e & t

[Panni]

Time for BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE HUNGARIAN!

Today, for figure skating fans...[DRUM ROLL]

ELVIS STOJKO (b. 3/22/72, Newmarket, grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada) 3-time World Champion, 7-time Canadian National Champion, and 2-time Olympic Silver Medalist.
Elvis' parents are Irene, a dancer from Hungary and Steve, from Slovenia.  Has two older siblings, Atilla and Elizabeth. From Time Magazine: "[Elvis] may be the toughest skater ever to enter the rink. Elvis' fortitude is bred in the bones. His mother was the last of eight children in a Hungarian family, his father the first of nine in a Yugoslav household. They fled Communist tanks in the 1950s, landed in Canada, met each other in Toronto and married."

And a bonus for Movie Musical fans [SECOND DRUM ROLL]
MITZI GAYNOR - "Has claimed to be descended from Hungarian nobility; on these occasions, she has stated that her real name is Francesca Mitzi von Gerber. The daughter of a ballerina, Gaynor made her own terpsichorean debut when she was barely a toddler; by age 12, she had joined the dancing chorus of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera."

[Dan (the Man)]

I will go for the obvious on the TOD (BTW I did read the notes, I was just so caught up in my own Tony fever that I never answered it).

I will go back and have dinner with Mr. Shakespeare and bring back a pristine copy of the First Folio.

D'oh!  Beaten to the punch, again!  Alright, I'll show you!  I just might get in the time machine and go visit Christopher Marlowe at about 1583 and feed him a bunch of interesting ideas for plays ("...and then he kills the old guy, and then he gets into a sword fight with the old guy's son.  And then his mother drinks poison that was meant for him, and then he kills his uncle--no--wait--I got it mixed up--are you getting this all down?")

[Panni]

But if there's only room for one in our time machine, I would want to meet Houdini

Hungarian.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

DR Panni,

In my day, the big Bar Mitzvah gift book was: "They Were All Jewish: From Moses to Einstein." (I guess that tells you when my day was.) Do you see a market for "Bet You Didn't Know They Were Hungarian"? And for your subtitle, who'd be the "from" and who'd be the "to"?

[MBarnum]

I, like JRand53, would also go out to lunch with Allison Hayes circa early 1960s...maybe 1964 so that I could ask her about THE CRAWLING HAND and all of her Perry Mason guest shots!

I would also invite Joi Lansing along just because!

As for a first edition...hmmmm...maybe a first edition of one of Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann and Andy books...signed of course!

[Dan-in-Toronto]

Panni,

You'll no doubt be thrilled to know that when he was a student, my dad had a summer job working for Houdini's brother.

[George]

DRs Danise and George:  the video I captured of the Tony Pre Show with the SnagIt utility?  There's no audio!  Picture, but no sound!  George, you wanna trade files?  Maybe we can find a way to combine them.

I would be more than happy to send you what I have!  I have no idea how to combine them.  I could ask my sister's boyfriend.  He's copied DVDs and things like that.  Maybe he has some information, or friends who know.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

... working for Houdini's brother.

Yes, I know. Hungarian.

[Ron Pulliam]

Not to steal any thunder from Panni, but I don't know if she's likely to know about THIS particular Hungarian:

Composer Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), whose evocative scores enhanced many a film noir and MGM epic, was born in Budapest and studied the violin from the age of five. After creating chamber and symphonic works and composing the ballet Hungaria, he began creating film scores for fellow Hungarian producer Alexander Korda in the late 1930s. While composing the score for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Rozsa moved to California.

Rozsa won a total of 17 Academy Award® nominations for his scores, including those for such film noirs as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945) and The Killers (1946), which introduced the "dum-de-dum-dum" later to be used in the score for TV's Dragnet. Another memorable Rozsa noir score is for the Barbara Stanwyck melodrama The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946). He won Oscars® for the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Spellbound (1945), George Cukor's psychological drama A Double Life (1947) and the remake of Ben-Hur (1959), for which he created some of his most majestic music.

Other epics for which Rozsa was Oscar®-nominated included Quo Vadis? (1951) and Ivanhoe (1952). His MGM period also included scores for the Korean War drama Men of the Fighting Lady (1954) and the sci-fi mystery The Power (1968).

Turner Classic Movies is doing a tribute to Miklos Rozsa featuring Spellbound (1945), Men of the Fighting Lady (1954), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) and The Power (1968).  Check your local listings.

[MBarnum]

I interviewed a Hungarian Hercules once.

[JoseSPiano]

I was going to post about something... But forgot what I was going to post about...

[Noel]

Can we move from listing people who are Hungarian
to, simply, people who are hungry?

<raises hand>

Me!

[Jrand74]

Thanks DTM - I am going to check out Webroot!  

Oh DRMBARNUM after lunch we could go with Joi to the Scopitone studio while she films the classic "Caught in the Web of Love!"

[Matt H.]

Thank you, DR Jay, for providing a copy of yourt letter. I almost never talk politics, but I must wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote.

[MBarnum]

Oh DRMBARNUM after lunch we could go with Joi to the Scopitone studio while she films the classic "Caught in the Web of Love!"

We will have to be sure and stand back though while Joi swings her...er...musical notes around (I wonder what it is like to have two large torpedos coming straight for you!)

[Matt H.]

PLEASE let's don't forget Rozsa's magnificent MADAME BOVARY.

I can't forget it because DR RLP made me a fantastic CD-R of the soundtrack. Just love it, and offer him many thanks in this public forum.

[Sandra]

I am eating a red bell pepper and some Cadbury chocolate left over from Dear Reader Jason's cookies.

Just to clarify: the red bell pepper wasn't left over from the cookies- just the chocolate. I don't want Dear Reader Jason thinking I've put all sorts of weird stuff in his cookies. Besides the beets, of course.

[S. Woody White]

Oh, and we do have a topic of the day - we've had one response to it so far, which leads me to believe... No, I will NOT believe it.

Oh, go right ahead: we've all got a Tony Party hangover!

[S. Woody White]

I have not seen I Am My Own Wife
so I may be wrong that its protagonist lives through a time when homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle, and also in a Communist land where homosexuals were second-class citizens.

No, I Am My Own Wife is NOT about the times it's protagonist lives through.  It is about the process by which she survives, about the how and not the what.