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[Michael]

good afternoon to all

[Michael]

I don't a favorite film of Shirley McLaine's brother with maybe the exception of HEaven Can Wait and those are for the scenes with Dyan Cannon

[Michael]

And speaking of Dyan Cannon I can't believe what she did to her face. The plastic surgeon should have his license revoked. She doesn't look like the person we got to know.

[Michael]

From last night I posted the a trivia question: What is the connection of Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and Bruce Kimmel?


The connection between the Hitchcock's Marnie and Bruce Kimmel  is/was


Sean Connery


Who played the character of Mark Rutland.


And Mark Rutland was the director screen credit that Bruce Kimmel used for the movie "Prime Suspect" with Dana Plato, Susan Strassberg, Frank Stallone & Skip E. Lowe

[Michael]

[George]

I almost just had a heart attack.

I could not get my kindle to start.

It froze (on something in my email).

I had tried resetting it. But did not do it for the full 20 seconds. So when i saw to do it that long on amazon.com help, I did it. And thankfully it started. But i was freaking out for 15 minutes.

Something like that happened to me last week!  At first, I couldn't easily turn on the power, but when it finally was able to turn on, only three or four of my titles showed (I have 182 titles on it right now)!  Even with the power on, I couldn't do much of anything...I couldn't even turn it back off to try and reset it.  I wondered if the battery might've run down, so I plugged it in and left it alone and, FORTUNATELY, by the end of the day it was fine.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up, having slept way too late, which I must have needed to do, but now I am really behind and must catch up - print pages, Xerox, deliver, etc.

[bk]

Jennifer - I've explained my writing process many times.  I have never outlined ANY book, not just the mysteries.  It's not how I work and I would find it constraining to have an outline.  What I do is have pages of notes with things that will be or not be in the book.  Events, characters, plot points.  With the Hofstetter books I know who the victim will be but I never know who the killer will be until about halfway through the book because I like to go on the journey with Miss Hofstetter - to see things and clues as she does.  It's more fun, more interesting, at least for me.  When I decide, then I make sure everything that precedes that decision is not giving anything away - it usually isn't because I haven't known. 

[John G.]

Feel better vibes for DR Jeanne!

A double dose

[Jrand74]

I knew it was something like that DR MIKE - but I couldn't come up with it.

[Jrand74]

DR JOHN G this is about the gist of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBLhIS1MMM

[John G.]

Oh, I meant to mention that I love Dorothy Fields' songs. I don't know why she isn't better known among the general populus. Her songs are, but not her name.

She's great. There's a decent bio of her, "On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields."

[John G.]

We're getting a new library in San Antonio -- with no books.

http://news.yahoo.com/library-without-books-bibliotech-open-193118588--abc-news-tech.html

[John G.]

Sadly, HMV, a British institution where I have been buying LP records, then CDs, videos and DVDs etc. since 1963, has gone bankrupt. There will be nowhere left in the UK to buy music and films, other than on-line. I far prefer to browse in stores and buy and take away a physical product but it seems as if those days may have gone for good. 

 There is almost no where to physically buy things even in New York. I can go down to

J&R

for OCRs and other CDs and if I want used I can go to Academy, though they are selling fewer and fewer OCRs also. It's depressing!

Shopping for OCRs was always a big part of my trips to New York. The last time, I did go to a Barnes & Noble, but it was sterile and dull. Any good used CD stores? 

[Jrand74]

We're getting a new library in San Antonio -- with no books.

http://news.yahoo.com/library-without-books-bibliotech-open-193118588--abc-news-tech.html

It was only a matter of time.

[TCB]

TOD:

Looking at Warren Beatty's film credits on IMDB, I find that I have no favorite Warren Beatty films.

Mikey, you should watch HEAVEN CAN WAIT.  It is very funny!  And no deep hidden meanings to worry about.

[ChasSmith]

DR Doug R, I'm sorry and just a bit shocked to hear that about HMV.  For some reason, I would have thought that the UK would have been slower to lose its stores.  Maybe I've thought that because from things I'd read back in the day, LPs seemed to remain such a bigger deal there longer than in the US.

Surely there are secondhand stores for this stuff?

[George]

TOD:

Looking at Warren Beatty's film credits on IMDB, I find that I have no favorite Warren Beatty films.

Mikey, you should watch HEAVEN CAN WAIT.  It is very funny!  And no deep hidden meanings to worry about.

I agree!  It's very entertaining and you won't be disappointed.

[ChasSmith]

DR Ben, I still find J&R a fascinating place to visit once a year or so.  Last time I was in there (yikes, I think it was way more than a year ago), they had quite the little LP department, both new and vintage.  And though it looked like everything was being sold at list price, the DVD/Blu-ray room stock was very impressive.

B&Ns might seem sterile, but a couple of the largest ones are still nice.  In particular, I supposed it's out of the way for most everyone here, but the Paramus, NJ store is not only a large one, it also contains the Annex for used and bargain books.  I think that Annex is what used to be across Fifth Ave. (at 18th St.) from the original store.  I've found a fair number of interesting things that had slipped under the radar out there in Paramus.  And for movies, they're still our last best hope.

[elmore3003]

I had a frustrating  NYPL visit, but I did get to chat with several librarians I like. Then, as I stepped onto the third floor elevator, I ran smack into the exiting Ian Marshall Fisher, who directed the 1998 BBC Radio production of JUBILEE. We went over to Alice Tully Hall for acup of coffee and chatted for about 2 and a half hours. It was a wonderful visit.

[John G.]

I had a frustrating  NYPL visit, but I did get to chat with several librarians I like. Then, as I stepped onto the third floor elevator, I ran smack into the exiting Ian Marshall Fisher, who directed the 1998 BBC Radio production of JUBILEE. We went over to Alice Tully Hall for acup of coffee and chatted for about 2 and a half hours. It was a wonderful visit.

Sounds nice.

[John G.]

I need it to be about 40 minutes from now.

[John G.]

Has anyone read a book called "The Moonflower Vine" by Jetta Carleton?

[Ben]

Sadly, HMV, a British institution where I have been buying LP records, then CDs, videos and DVDs etc. since 1963, has gone bankrupt. There will be nowhere left in the UK to buy music and films, other than on-line. I far prefer to browse in stores and buy and take away a physical product but it seems as if those days may have gone for good. 

 There is almost no where to physically buy things even in New York. I can go down to

J&R

for OCRs and other CDs and if I want used I can go to Academy, though they are selling fewer and fewer OCRs also. It's depressing!

Shopping for OCRs was always a big part of my trips to New York. The last time, I did go to a Barnes & Noble, but it was sterile and dull. Any good used CD stores? 

Academy on 18th Street used to be great but now it's only so-so. They don't buy many OCRs because they say the discs just sit there. They do have some out of print stuff for reasonable to outrageous prices but I don't go there much anymore. What used to be many bins of OCRs and soundtracks is now just 3 small rows of stuff. The rest are DVDs and in the back they have a large classical collection.

Barnes and Noble is hit and miss. The one on Union Square has cut back drastically on CDs. Most of the space was given over to the Nook. They have some stuff but not half of what they used to have.

[John G.]

Sadly, HMV, a British institution where I have been buying LP records, then CDs, videos and DVDs etc. since 1963, has gone bankrupt. There will be nowhere left in the UK to buy music and films, other than on-line. I far prefer to browse in stores and buy and take away a physical product but it seems as if those days may have gone for good. 

 There is almost no where to physically buy things even in New York. I can go down to

J&R

for OCRs and other CDs and if I want used I can go to Academy, though they are selling fewer and fewer OCRs also. It's depressing!

Shopping for OCRs was always a big part of my trips to New York. The last time, I did go to a Barnes & Noble, but it was sterile and dull. Any good used CD stores? 

Academy on 18th Street used to be great but now it's only so-so. They don't buy many OCRs because they say the discs just sit there. They do have some out of print stuff for reasonable to outrageous prices but I don't go there much anymore. What used to be many bins of OCRs and soundtracks is now just 3 small rows of stuff. The rest are DVDs and in the back they have a large classical collection.

Barnes and Noble is hit and miss. The one on Union Square has cut back drastically on CDs. Most of the space was given over to the Nook. They have some stuff but not half of what they used to have.

That sounds like the Barnes & Noble stores here, too.

[ChasSmith]

I bought a TON of stuff -- lots of LPs, a few books -- at Academy back in the day (early 1990s).  Got some GREAT items from there, at very reasonable prices.  I really miss the way the store was originally, and I also miss Skyline Books across the street.  Boy, the more I think about it, the more time (and $$) I realize I spent on 18th Street.

[Michael]

i wonder if the hmv store in Montreal will close too

[bk]

Back from Xeroxing, delivering (just left the pages out front since Muse Margaret is gone till this afternoon, then had a sandwich and no fries and a cup of chicken noodle soup.  Picked up no packages.

[bk]

And now, time to write.  I began the new chapter after completely reworking the end of the previous chapter before printing out.  But since I always like to leave Muse Margaret with the first line of the new chapter, I wrote that.  And that's all that I've written so far, so I must buckle down, Winsocki and write.  Happily, that one line, which took me about forty minutes to come up with, leads me right into something that will be fun to write.

[elmore3003]

Randy and Jo were very sad over the deaths of both Max and Maddie within 2and a half months  of each other last fall. They now have a new puppy, named Blaze, whom Jo said she is spoiling to death. 

I dearly loved Max and Maddie, but I do think Blaze is awfully adorable.