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[John G.]

Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out

I always appreciate decent lung. 

[John G.]

Page four!

[John G.]

In about thirty minutes I'll be on my way to the Candlelight Pavillion Dinner Theatre - I'm interested to see what it's all about.

Around 1981, the cast of BARNUM and I went to "New York's Only Dinner Theatre" for a midnight production of Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, set in the rubble of the hotel that burned down in Las Vegas (the MGM Grand?). it was one of the funniest events of my life: the cast used the text of the Euripides play and camped it up. Harlette Ula Hedwig played Cher playing Hecuba, Laura Kenyon played Lainie Kazan playing Andromache, Holly Woodlawn played Helen of Troy as I recall. and there were some others whom I've forgotten. I don't remember who played Elvis playing Menelaus but I'd swear now that it was Meatloaf.  The Greek chorus of Trojan women was a whorey group of chorus girls stranded from the fire.

It was in a dive in the Easy Village and, to keep up the image of a dinner theatre, when you paid for your ticket, you were given a paper plate and a plastic fork, and you joined a line to receive a huge ladle of Kraft mac'n'cheese, wich you ate during the performance.

I will always be grateful for the two dinner theaters that were near us when I was growing up. I was able to see some shows that you never see done anymore, including "Can-Can" with the original script, and "Finian's Rainbow." I saw a production of "The Fantastiks," as I think I'm mentioned here before, with George Lee Andrews as El Gallo and a production of "South Pacific" with a three-man Navy and no kids. I saw some mediocre performances, sure, but I also saw a lot of creativity with limited budgets. And usually even less good food at the buffets. 

[TCB]

Bill Cosby says on ABC that he would want Betty White to play him in a movie of his life.

Question for free-for-all day:  If it had to be someone of the opposite gender, who would you choose to play you in the story of your life?  (without cheating and choosing someone who's really of your same gender through some loophole)

I would have to say Barbara Stanwyck; but only if she wore that satin and fur coat from TITANIC.

[DERBRUCER]

Another ketchup:

Concerning TCB, Jeanne posted:

I hope that you'll get some home health aides, too. It's a shame patients have to fight so hard to get the care they need.

Well, in my case I had to fight hard NOT to get the home care they insisted I needed (which was all insurance covered). The situation got so acrimonious that I had to call the hospital and not so politely inform them that if a Visiting Nurse showed up at my door, I would not only not answer but that persistence would result in a police complaint!!!!

I argued: either I was well enough to go home, in which case leave me the hell alone, or I was not, in which case transfer me to a care facility!

I mean really - just what I needed for recuperation - set the alarm to get up early to clean house in anticipation of a Visiting Nurse, then when the nurse arrived, risk pulling loose all the staples holding my chest together trying to corral five dogs!

If I needed dressing changed, or the healing checked, I had no problem getting a lift to an out-patient facility, or the hospital itself.

Logic was of little help - they really, really wanted to do a home inspection, and I really, really had no intention of allowing them to. To aid my cause I did mention my 2nd amendment rights.

There is no tonic like fighting with bureaucrats!

der Brucer

[John G.]

Jane, I saw something for you at the store the other day: Canned "skinless" vegetarian haggis. It was next to the regular canned haggis. I almost bought a can just to see how horrible it was, but at $7, it was a little too much.

[DERBRUCER]

Canned "skinless" vegetarian haggis. It was next to the regular canned haggis. I almost bought a can just to see how horrible it was, but at $7, it was a little too much.

7^˘ would be too much! We all know Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

More ketch-up:

Geoge was gloating keeping us advised as to this Blockbuster DVD spree.

Well, I can do him one better by sharing our Blockbuster Sale list:

Regular DVD

Closer, The - the Complete First Season
Bunraku
Crazy Heart
Deliverance
Education, An
Hereafter
Iron Man 2
Italian Job, The (1969)
Last King of Scotland, The
Tree of Life, The

Bleu & Raye

Across the Universe
A-Team, The
August Rush
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Bolt
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
District 9
Harry Brown
Informant, The
Internationale, The
Italian Job, The (2003)
Kids Are All Right, The
Knight and Day
Letters from Iwo Jima
Red
Revolutionary Road
Single Man, A
State of Play
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

For fear that we would run oput of viewing amterial, we also went to OOPS (remnder store in the Outlets) and scored the following at $5 each:

Body of Lies
Bodyguard, The
Far From Heaven
Firestarter
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Gettysburg
Notes on a Scandal
Papillon
Pelican Brief, The
Shockwave - The Complete Season One
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
Chariots of Fire
Dog Day Afternoon
Executive Decision
Unlawful Entry
Invention of Lying, The
Jackal, The
Mommy Dearest
Petulia
Ripley's Game
Training Day
Fallen

I keep hoping my time on this mortal coil will not conclude with un-viewed DVDs on the shelf.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

TOD

Maggie Smith

der Brucer

[Druxy]

Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out

I always appreciate decent lung. 

Me, too.

[TCB]

I played a funeral yesterday and they asked me to stay and play the "after party" , and some woman came up and handed me a little note about her accomplishments, which supposedly included playing for TCB's own Tacoma Symphony.  When I said I had been up there a few years ago to review a concert of theirs for THE SONDHEIM REVIEW, I mentioned I had interviewed the conductor, whose name I couldn't remember, and suddenly she got quite flabbergasted and said she couldn't remember his name either.  Methinks she may have padded her CV. 

Were her CVs really large?

[Druxy]

The earlier remark about "SWEENEY TODD as dinner theatre," reminded me of a production of THE EVIL DEAD, the Musical, that I saw here in Austin a couple of years ago.

At the box-office, they charged you an extra $5.00 if you wanted to sit in the "Splatter Zone".  They even furnished you with a poncho, so that you wouldn't get the fake blood on your clothes.

Actually, if was a very entertaining show, but:

Can you imagine doing that play in a dinner theatre?

[Matthew]

Funny how bk is talking about people who just stop showing up or communicating.  I'm going through a bit of that on the "professional" front these days, and not only is it annoying, but it also plays with ones feelings and insecurities.  It's tough to get past, especially when you know you don't really need these people/things in your life to be successful.   

[TCB]

My fridge freezer is making some very odd loud noises. Looks like I'm going to have to call out a service engineer.

Will he be arriving on his service locomotive?

[TCB]

TCB - You're now only 8 away from that great millstone!!!

Two!

[TCB]

Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out

They served lung for lunch?

[Jrand73]

Hmmmmmmmm.....I used to have a lobby card that showed that satin coat was pink/red DR TCB....obviously just using a color that they were able to print.....but I always imagine it that color when I see the movie.

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

Nice to see TCB here and in good form. (And good spirits.)

[Jrand73]

I wonder where I put that lobby card?

[Jeanne]

Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out

I always appreciate decent lung. 

Me, too.

My first thought was, "WHAT?? People eat LUNG now?! I've heard of organ meats, but never lung!"

[Jrand73]

Ah - DR DOUG R - Allison didn't appear until the third season....

[Jeanne]

Lots of chuckles today while reading the posts.

[Jeanne]

Sigh. LA has now lost yet another good eatery. GR/Eats (strange name, I know) has closed. It was a TINY, little hole-in-the-wall on Sawtelle Blvd, aka Little Japan, that served Asian fusion, or, as I like to call it, global cuisine with a Japanese accent. Gone. A noodle shop has replaced it, but we have LOTS of noodle shops. sigh. 

[Jeanne]

Sorry to hear about you getting TOO MUCH care, derB. Maybe you could send those folks to Tacoma. I'd like to see TCB have help with the cleaning, laundry, shopping, etc. Doesn't DR Laura have some laundry elves?

[Jrand73]

That's some list DR derBRUCER

[Jeanne]

Someone to play me? Hum...

[Jeanne]

I'd like to see Maggie Smith play der Brucer.

[Doug R]

Ah - DR DOUG R - Allison didn't appear until the third season....

Right. I might pick up the 50th Anniversary Edition which looks interesting with episodes featuring major stars.

[Ginny]

Sunday afternoon greetings from HOME!  I dropped Anita off about an hour ago and have talked on the phone with my mother.  I am very glad to be home.

Thank you, DR Elmore, for your comment about the awards we accepted last night on behalf of our AAUW friends.  Here we are at the end of the awards banquet:

[TCB]

Sunday afternoon greetings from HOME!  I dropped Anita off about an hour ago and have talked on the phone with my mother.  I am very glad to be home.

Thank you, DR Elmore, for your comment about the awards we accepted last night on behalf of our AAUW friends.  Here we are at the end of the awards banquet:

Great photo, Ginny!