Topic: THE 'COON'S AGE (Read 28179 times)

bk · « **Reply #30 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:24:31 AM »

And one for Mahler.

TCB · « **Reply #31 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:24:47 AM »

PAGE 2 POST DANCE!

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bk · « **Reply #32 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:25:51 AM »

Countdown to 50,000 posts. Only 140 or so left to go. Could happen today. Will it coincide with my 5000th post? Only time will tell and frankly time isn't talking right now.

Matt H. · « **Reply #33 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:31:59 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 17, 2004, 09:03:30 AM

I understand, but you must know you were in the minority then, whereas now you are part of the majority. The first time I ever looked at a box office figures chart was when Nudie Musical came out. I took a small interest in it after that, but not like now.

As you see from my post about pop music of the period, I was in the minority then and still am. I have been most of my life about most things IN my life. Never has bothered me at all.

But I don't actually think I'm part of the majority yet as I observe the numbers with interest, but that's as far as it goes. I don't obsess about it, doesn't matter to me whether a film falls 30% or 70% from one week to the next, and really look at it only as part of the big picture of the business: what types of films sell here and around the world and what doesn't work, which stars are popular here and overseas, how the films do in ancillary markets after their theatrical run is concluded. The play is STILL the thing to me. The offshoots are interesting but no a compulsion.

Panni · « **Reply #34 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:32:13 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on June 17, 2004, 09:21:53 AM

I wanna know how you spelled his name!

Just because you're Canadian and Canada took us in when we were homeless immigrants... "MBarbum"
It was a typo! But it made me laugh when I saw it. No reflection on a lovely man.

Jennifer · « **Reply #35 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:32:54 AM »

140 isn't that many. It should definitely happen today.

Matt H. · « **Reply #36 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:34:23 AM »

I'll be E&T a few hours as I'm headed to a friend's pool for some swimming and sunbathing. Back later this afternoon.

Panni · « **Reply #37 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:35:20 AM »

Off I go to the Post Office. (Not necessary information to post, but I'm helping move toward the 140)...

MBarnum · « **Reply #38 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:35:32 AM »

Are Bar Bum! Well, I never! Well, maybe a few times but that was in my younger years! LOL!

MBarnum · « **Reply #39 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:38:40 AM »

I see BK, well maybe those people just "think" they are supposed to be fascinated by the position or money that a movie or play accumulates. I don't know the reason why. As for me all I care about is if the movie (or play) entertained me or not...although I do guess that I hope for it to have a good box office so that whoever was responsible for it has more opportunities to entertain me. Did that make sense?

Jennifer · « **Reply #40 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:39:44 AM »

DR Panni: That was pretty funny. I like it!

MBarnum · « **Reply #41 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:40:11 AM »

It shall be 91 degress in Salem Oregon today.

My buddy Mark wants me to go to a nakey beach with him Saturday. Not sure I am wanting to do such a thing ( We will most certainly be keeping our clothes on!).

Jennifer · « **Reply #42 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:41:31 AM »

Posting about going to the post office seems perfectly fine.

Jennifer · « **Reply #43 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:43:34 AM »

Speaking of being naked. They showed a preview for an upcoming Simple Life 2 show. Paris and Nicole have to work as maids at a nudist place. Fox puts big yellow smiley faces to cover their privates!

Jennifer · « **Reply #44 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:45:23 AM »

Can someone explain to me how some emails get lost in cyberspace? There is an email that I know was sent 45 minutes ago and it still hasn't arrived.

Why do emails I really want not arrive, but ones I don't want seem to fill my inbox!

Jennifer · « **Reply #45 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:46:35 AM »

DR Panni has computer access at the post office?

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #46 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:53:25 AM »

"What was the one thing you liked to do as a kid that everyone looked at you like you were nuts for doing?"

There are several, some of which I still do. (I'll list them post by post.)

- Listen to Fiorello and conduct its overture

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #47 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:53:48 AM »

(This one = anonymously)
Make crank calls

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #48 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:54:11 AM »

Eat chocolate cake and watermelon for breakfast

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #49 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:54:53 AM »

Hang out with Patty, the kid who didn't fit any mold (and she's still my closest friend)

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #50 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:55:22 AM »

Play the Jew's harp

Stuart · « **Reply #51 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:56:12 AM »

Congrats, DR DTM.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #52 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:58:11 AM »

WTG DTM

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #53 on:** June 17, 2004, 09:58:59 AM »

The problem with the obssession with box-office figures is that it immediately brands films as winners and losers and such pre-emptory dismissal of the box-office losers doesn't allow certain films that might thrive to build and find their audience.

What's worse it immediately precludes any discussion of the film as art. Good films are ones that make money; bad ones don't...which we all know is nonsense.

It's sort of like when they had the big stink about the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art. They got into a big debate over whether it was pornography or not (it wasn't)...which immediately precluded any discussion as to whether it was good art or not...(I suspect it is, but not my taste)

25-50-100 years from now when everyone's forgotten the box-office, maybe we'll actually re-assess films' according to their actual merits as art...not how much money they made.

I'm in the business and the only time I ever read Variety or Hollywood Reporter are when I'm sitting in some producer or studio office. Half of it is hype about projects that often don't even get done. The other half is just boring. I had a year's subscription to Weekly Variety a few years ago because they gave me a ridiculously low rate on it, but all I read was the Stage section...and I never renewed it. It has nothing to do with the creative necessity of my job.

As I rarely go to movies when they first come out any more and see the vast majority of them when they are on DVD or at screenings late in the year for award considerations, their box-office has never been a barometer for me to go see anything. In fact, if anything it's more often a barometer to stay away. I have no desire to see the Chronicles of Riddick or Day After Tomorrow. I guess I'll go see the third Harry Potter at some point, because the Lovely Wife likes them...I've found the first two terribly disappointing. I'd like to see TROY, but I'm not building up its box-office numbers by having to be there opening weekend. Nothing is that urgent to me.

Stuart · « **Reply #54 on:** June 17, 2004, 10:02:02 AM »

IMHO (in my humble opinion, in internet lingo), everyone's fascination with BO numbers and the like is just a corollary to people's fascination with many things that are none of their business.

Weird things I did as child? Probably the same weird things I do as an adult.

Save one, now that I think about it. I used to sleep in a somewhat awkward position (it was comfy at the time). My elbows would meet my knees somewhere mid-chest. Face down. This would push my tush up in the air.

This is a sleeping position for which I am no longer noted.

Stuart · « **Reply #55 on:** June 17, 2004, 10:03:06 AM »

Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on June 17, 2004, 09:55:22 AM

Play the Jew's harp

Given your religion, DR DIT, is this a euphemism?

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #56 on:** June 17, 2004, 10:06:35 AM »

Thanks, y'all, for welcoming me to Vahalla (do they have Halvah in Vahalla?) However, my God-like powers have not manifested yet. I've been trying to transform this dweeb of a database manager in my office into one of those styrofoam cubes like in that episode of the original Star Trek, but he's still walking around blathering about how I need to keep out of the database while he's indexing his indexes. Ah, well...

S. Woody White · « **Reply #57 on:** June 17, 2004, 10:10:46 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on June 17, 2004, 08:16:26 AM

...whereas I had better hurry up and get my butt in gear if I want to catch Garfield before it disappears.

You do realize that Garfield would not approve!

Ben · « **Reply #58 on:** June 17, 2004, 10:16:34 AM »

Welcome to DTM.

I (like a certain fictional/slightly real character with the initials BK) loved to talk in Pig Latin (ig-pay atin-lay) but where most would stop after a few words, I would continue on until I was threatened with bodily harm. Another thing that caused me to be threatened from my many sisters (four of them and there were four of them for a long time with me being the only boy, now there are seven of us, two girls, me, two girls and two boys) was to copy/repeat everything they said. I was/am still very good at repeating things as they come out of someone's mouth. They would do the usual thing of saying stop it but they never seemed to get that all they had to do was shut up and I couldn't say anything. Running to a parent or screaming just made it all the more funny to me. I did it to Anthony once when we went back to Minnesota to visit family and my sisters were hysterical with laughter (he asked if I did anything to them to annoy them and I had to show him what I did, didn't I ;-)

I was a bad person on my lunch hour not intending to purchase anything but I walked out with the London cast recording of Jerry Herman's Mack and Mabel, the soundtrack to Love Me or Leave Me with the beautiful Miss Doris Day, another Herman show, The Grand Tour, the soundtrack for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the soundtrack to On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Paul Sorvino and Patti LuPone in The Baker's Wife and Bounce (a Red Bounce and it only cost $10 and it's still shrinkwrapped). I must control myself. At least I'll have plenty to listen to this afternoon and tomorrow.

Ben · « **Reply #59 on:** June 17, 2004, 10:17:27 AM »

It took us so long to get to page 2 but we are one away from page 3 so here goes

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