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[Ron Pulliam]

So many things are disappearing...being shut down...or taken away.

It's the end of many eras, it seems.

[Druxy]

I love THE BIG COUNTRY....mentioned by DR JANE yesterday.  It's one of my favorite Carroll Baker performances.

Carroll Baker has said that shortly after she signed for the movie, she discovered she was pregnant.  She had a meeting with Wyler, who had a meeting with United Artists, and they decided to go ahead since they would be finished with the film before she was "showing."

However delays.....they had started filming without having an ending to the story....kept cropping up.  By the time of the filming of the party scene, a special "concealing" dress had to be made for Carroll......  And she kind of just disappears from the story without much of a resolution.....

I really like THE BIG COUNTRY, too.

Buff Brady, who was one of my very first publicity clients, played one of Chuck Connors' gang.  He was a top stuntman and did the trick riding in that opening sequence when Peck and Carroll are on their way to the ranch.

[Ron Pulliam]

I know things change, the old giving way to the new.

But what is (or where is) all the new that is supposed to replace all the old stuff we've lost or are losing?

[John G.]

End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades  of tradition down the drain in an instant. 

Who is the owner these days? I once knew the Silvermans, who owned back in the 1980s, but they were trying to sell it back then.

[ChasSmith]

Oh man.  RIP Variety.

[bk]

I have to say, Grant Geissman was very keen on doing the Kritzer books as an omnibus, so we probably will in a few months.

[Jrand74]

No Daily Variety

Well - that has been the story of my life for quite some time now.

[Jane]

DR TCB begin saving now for this cruise
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2013/02/26/titanic-ii-will-be-built/1948935/

[Jrand74]

I think a Kritzerland Omnibus would be a nice thing.....and it might increase the value of the individual volumes....

[Jrand74]

DR RLP is correct.   If I had given the Comcast Man my HDMI cable, he might have used it.

[Jane]

From DR John G:

Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.

I will be right over for the custard pie.

I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.

Sounds interesting.  I've heard of doing this and never tried it.

As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.

Thanks but wait until you have tested it first

[John G.]

From DR John G:

Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.

I will be right over for the custard pie.

I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.

Sounds interesting.  I've heard of doing this and never tried it.

As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.

Thanks but wait until you have tested it first

That's like to be this weekend. Too bad it won't ship. That just means more for me to eat. 

[John G.]

Off to a crawfish boil.

[Jane]

Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.

http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/

Thank you. This was interesting.  I would like to try a Montreal bagel.  Do they come in egg?

[Jane]

I bought my dad a new flat screen - just a 32 inch model - because his box tv had diagonal lines across the screen and a very definite GREEN hue to it......

Got it hooked up.....

Since I got my new television - I haven't been happy with the Broadcast HD quality, so while I had my cables out, I looked at my television and discovered that when the Comcast technician installed my new box, he had hooked it up with Component wires instead of the HDMI connection.....so I redid that....now it looks MUCH better.

I bet you were very happy to figure out what was wrong, also annoyed the technician didn't know better. 

[ChasSmith]

I'm about 99% certain my local Comcast office HAS been including HDMI cables with the boxes.  Maybe it was because I've specifically mentioned I'd be connecting that way when picking up a new box, but at any rate, they've been supplying them.

[Druxy]

Mr. Gavin's accent makes Dick Van Dyke's accent sound more authentic than an actual cockney.

I totally agree with the overall opinion on the board re: John Gavin's acting abilities.

Yet, despite that, he wound up co-starring in two classic films, PSYCHO and SPARTACUS.

I've never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I understand that he's a nice guy, too.

[Jane]

TOD

When growing up in Montreal there was no such thing as an exotic. It was either poppyseed or sesame. Or as we called the black seed or white seed." To this day I don't know which is which so I have to look at them in the display case. It wasn't until I was a teen that other places started making  (horrors or horrors!) plain bagels. The came cinnamon and raisin and other flavors

Do you prefer Montreal or NY bagels?

[Jane]

Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.

http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/

Montreal bagels are unique. Especially the ones from "the bagel factory" as depicted in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. It isa very Eastern European style.

They are thinning. Dipped in honey water and rolled in poppy or sesame sends and then but into a wood burning oven. There is nothing quite like getting one straight out of the oven.

You make them sound delicious-guess that also answers my question.

[Jane]

From DR TCB:

The Academy also published a web gallery honoring 114 of the people who died last year.

http://oscar.go.com/photos/85th/show/in-memoriam-2012/media/norman-alden

It is probably just me but this was giving me a headache to look at.  It is kind of dark and the photo changes were too slow & bothered my eyes.

I forgot to mention

The first in the slide show was Norm Alden.

Here is my Norm Alden story. I was working on the production side on a tv series in Montreal and they sent me to the Airport to pick him up because I was the only person who knew who he was other than the producers and writers.

That's funny.

[Jrand74]

I'm about 99% certain my local Comcast office HAS been including HDMI cables with the boxes.  Maybe it was because I've specifically mentioned I'd be connecting that way when picking up a new box, but at any rate, they've been supplying them.

Indiana is probably using all of your old boxes and cables.

[Druxy]

End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades  of tradition down the drain in an instant. 

That's a shocker!  

So, if you're in the biz and not on the Internet, where are you going to get your daily entertainment news?

[Jane]

Going through the list there were quite a few characters who passed this last year and a few better know stars who I have to say I was surprised that were omitted like Harry Carey Jr, Ann Rutherford and Phyllis Thaxter

I find it shocking these people were missed.

When I think of Andy Griffith I remember him in A FACE IN THE CROWD, NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS, & ONIONHEAD.

[Druxy]

Actually, Daily Variety has not been "right" since the late 80s or early 90s.

When I started in the business (mid-1960s), if it was in Daily Variety, you could "take it to the bank".  Tom Pryor, Dave Kaufman, Bill Edwards, Army Archerd and the rest of the staff were what good journalism was all about.

Not anymore.  When the paper was sold back then, editorial became too "advertiser friendly".

This news makes me very sad.

 

[Jane]

Going through the list there were quite a few characters who passed this last year and a few better know stars who I have to say I was surprised that were omitted like Harry Carey Jr, Ann Rutherford and Phyllis Thaxter

People like Andy Griffith and Larry Hagman were better know for TV than there film work.

I think that last comment really depends upon your memory.   Since the boomer generation probably first met Griffith in "No Time For Sergeants", "Onionhead" and "A Face in the Crowd", many of us remember those cinema moments as something extraordinary.  Many of the folks "remembered" were never "in" a movie.

You said that better than I did.

[Jane]

I love THE BIG COUNTRY....mentioned by DR JANE yesterday.  It's one of my favorite Carroll Baker performances.

Carroll Baker has said that shortly after she signed for the movie, she discovered she was pregnant.  She had a meeting with Wyler, who had a meeting with United Artists, and they decided to go ahead since they would be finished with the film before she was "showing."

However delays.....they had started filming without having an ending to the story....kept cropping up.  By the time of the filming of the party scene, a special "concealing" dress had to be made for Carroll......  And she kind of just disappears from the story without much of a resolution.....

I really like THE BIG COUNTRY, too.

Buff Brady, who was one of my very first publicity clients, played one of Chuck Connors' gang.  He was a top stuntman and did the trick riding in that opening sequence when Peck and Carroll are on their way to the ranch.

We appreciated his trick riding very much.

[Jane]

From DR John G:

Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.

I will be right over for the custard pie.

I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.

Sounds interesting.  I've heard of doing this and never tried it.

As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.

Thanks but wait until you have tested it first

That's like to be this weekend. Too bad it won't ship. That just means more for me to eat. 

That would be nice as I only want one piece & not an entire pie.

[Doug R]

The mucous-y congestion after a cold can hang on for a really long time.  Sometimes I can throw it off pretty fast, but usually not.  For me, though, just feeling well is so rewarding that I almost don't care.

Yes, the cold I had in December started as a painful sore throat and the congestion hung around for about 4 weeks. Those symptoms have been fairly common this winter in the UK.

[bk]

Kritzer Omnibus will happen probably in June.  Now I have to go on the hunt for the old Word docs.

[George]

I'm about 99% certain my local Comcast office HAS been including HDMI cables with the boxes.  Maybe it was because I've specifically mentioned I'd be connecting that way when picking up a new box, but at any rate, they've been supplying them.

When I got my hi-def TV, I got a new hi-def DVR from Comcast, but they didn't give me an HDMI cable.  I had to get that myself...of course, that was four or five years ago, so they could've changed since then.