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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2013, 07:00:35 AM »

Page Two Good News from DR Danise Dance!
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« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2013, 07:02:16 AM »

Listening to the Feltham/BK interview!

In so doing, I had to renew my acquaintance with the FUN of downloading RealPlayer and getting used to the odd way these things play.  Oy!   :)
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« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2013, 07:03:47 AM »

Scooter is barking.
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« Reply #33 on: April 16, 2013, 07:07:05 AM »

TOD: Collections. I stopped collecting things years ago. I have a small house, and there just isn't really room for anything.
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« Reply #34 on: April 16, 2013, 07:26:32 AM »

Hmm.  Okay, now what? 

The first part ended after a song ended, and I think I'm waiting for the next part to load and play.  Is that right?  Or is there something else I have to do?
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« Reply #35 on: April 16, 2013, 07:27:56 AM »

TOD - I've developed quite a collection of angels by just casually mentioning several years ago that I needed a "few" more for around our Advent wreath.  My Mom is about to get rid of a corner curio cabinet for which we have the perfect place.  I think I'll use it to display the portion of my collection that's not Christmas-y.

And, then, there's the Vera Bradley...
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« Reply #36 on: April 16, 2013, 07:33:17 AM »

Congrats, Danise!
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« Reply #37 on: April 16, 2013, 07:34:39 AM »

I've learned that curio cabinets, china cabinets, etc., are worth their weight in gold for collectors.  I was given a modern-day but pretty nice one a few years back, by friends who were simply tired of it and done with it.  They even delivered and helped set it up.  It perfectly absorbed a few small collections of objects I had never had a place to display, and what a difference.
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« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2013, 07:37:42 AM »

My grandmother had an angel collection and I'm afraid I have no idea what happened to it.  In all likelihood, my sister took it in after both our grandmother and mother had died.  If she did, they're well cared for, because she (my sister) also started an elephant collection some years back that is simply phenomenal.  (Disclaimer:  I know nothing about elephants.)  (Or angels!   :) )
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« Reply #39 on: April 16, 2013, 07:39:42 AM »

Good news from DR DANISE!!
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« Reply #40 on: April 16, 2013, 07:40:10 AM »

Great News Danise!
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« Reply #41 on: April 16, 2013, 07:40:17 AM »

That's quite a nice collection DR DRUXY!!!
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« Reply #42 on: April 16, 2013, 07:43:23 AM »

I guess my most prized items are my letter and photo inscribed to me from Francss Farmer....both of which have seen lots of mileage on the inner web.



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« Reply #43 on: April 16, 2013, 07:45:35 AM »

TOD:  My main collection is my soundtrack albums on records (45s and 33 1/3s) and CDs.  Compared to others I know in the soundtrack community, my collection is modest (around 2,700 CDs and LPs), but it represents what I consider good to great film music. Since I can't possibly see every film for which a soundtrack was issued, I'm certain there are plenty of titles I don't have that might be considered great.  On the other hand, I can't possibly listen to what I have completely through for what is left of my lifetime, so it's a "reference library", of sorts.

Next comes DVDs and Blu ray discs....and the DVD-Rs I burn from TCM showings, etc.  I have several thousand movies on DVD/Blu Ray (sad, to say) and about 1,000 DVD-Rs.

My memorabilia collection consists of 8 1/2 X 11 movie stills, 11 X 14 lobby cards, posters (inserts, half-sheets and one-sheets), window cards (both Broadway and movie titles), presentation mattes (miniaturized stills/lobbies with autographed cards of key actors from some of the represented films -- includes an Arlene Dahl on a matte for "Journey to the Center of the Earth:), movie souvenir books, selected souvenir books from musical plays, and a jumbled assortment of signatures of movie stars, movie composers and Broadway notables.

Among my prizes:  window card for "Mack and Mabel"; autograph, with a music notation, by Erich Wolfgang Korngold; a signed contract by Alfred Newman with Sam Goldwyn for scoring "Wuthering Heights"; a signed contract by Hugo Friedhofer for scoring (IIRC) "The Bishop's Wife" (although it might be "The Best Years of Our Lives"); a signed contract by Jerome Moross for scoring "Huckleberry Finn".  I have a stage-used artist's palette used in a performance of Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme" signed by "almost" everyone in the production on stage and off.  I have a one-sheet for "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" signed by all cast members, production staff (key folks), including Howard Shore who scored all the films.  Among my stills are two color British ones from "The King and I" signed by Deborah Kerr; I have a separate color still from "The King and I" signed by Yul Brynner; a Black-and-White still from "The Way We Were" signed by Streisand and Redford.  In my record collection, I have a "Hello, Dolly!" autographed by Carol Channing and Jerry Herman. 

Some curios include bronze MGM Lion paperweights (complete figure of lion) with "You Are My Lucky Star" inscribed on one side.  MGM used to send these out to distributors, etc.  I have four of them.  Also, a very unusual glass representation of the 20th Century-Fox logo...yellow/gold glass.  And, not last or least, an art deco (style) lapel pin of the MGM lion.

All of the above is a key to why I'm not yet retired and why I'm working on a third retirement income (including Social Security). 
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« Reply #44 on: April 16, 2013, 07:52:29 AM »

TOD: Collections. I stopped collecting things years ago. I have a small house, and there just isn't really room for anything.

Is it smaller than the 946-square-foot condo in which I house myself and my collection?
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« Reply #45 on: April 16, 2013, 07:55:35 AM »

TOD:

Beginning in the early 90s I started collecting autographed photos. At the beginning I put a lot of effort into searching out home addresses of B film actors, mailing them photos and a nice letter with a return, stamped envelope...50 percent of the time I was rewarded with an autograph on the photo and a nice letter or note from the celebrity. 30 percent of the time the envelope came back "return to sender" and 20 percent of the time the envelope and contents disappeared into thin air.

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« Reply #46 on: April 16, 2013, 07:55:41 AM »

Oh my god (said with reverence), DR Ron.
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« Reply #47 on: April 16, 2013, 08:02:54 AM »

....by the mid 90s I learned of the wonderful Ray Court's Hollywood Show held in Burbank, California several times a year. I began attending it every few years and added many more autographed photos to my collection.

It is difficult to say which of my autographs are my most treasured, however, though my autographed June Kenney photo is likely one of my favorites.

 Probably my most valuable is a night club pamphlet signed by actress Joi Lansing. I bought it from a gal whose father had attended one of Joi's shows back in the 1960s.

My most obscure one might be an autographed Margaret Mann photo. Ms. Mann played "Grandma" in two very early Our Gang shorts subjects. I bought it when I was in high school from a guy who had no clue who she was.
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« Reply #48 on: April 16, 2013, 08:04:27 AM »

DR Ron Pulliam, I had forgotten that you collected movie memorabilia. I think it is time we see some more snap shots of your collection! I love looking at lobby cards!
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« Reply #49 on: April 16, 2013, 08:04:53 AM »

(I waited a while then restarted RealPlayer, reloaded the file, jumped to near the end, and this time it went on and loaded the second part.)

(Whew.)  (Lordy.)
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« Reply #50 on: April 16, 2013, 08:05:34 AM »

I also have a lobby card from Bridge to the Sun, autographed by Miss Carroll Baker that DR MBARNUM got for me at a Hollywood Show...along with a nice autographed photo of Carol Lynley.  Also an autographed photo she returned to me when I sent it to her...



And  two cards I received from Miss Allison Hayes when I wrote her a couple of letters..... Note cards, so the fold is in there:



I think I wrote last year about the jug of White Lightnin' that Frances Farmer took to her sister Edith in 1962 for Christmas.  Edith sent me the empty jug many years ago....I think I posted a photo of it here earlier.
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« Reply #51 on: April 16, 2013, 08:08:42 AM »

We are certainly reading about some NICE collections today.
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« Reply #52 on: April 16, 2013, 08:10:52 AM »

I also have autographs from many people....including Meredith Willson, Yul Brynner, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sally Fraser, Vivian Vance. Yvette Vickers, MR BK and DR Charles Pogue.....and on and on....oh and nude Ercole - Zachary Stains, thanks to DR ELMORE.

Stuff that will mean nothing to anyone after I shuffle off this mortal coil....
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« Reply #53 on: April 16, 2013, 08:13:21 AM »

I do have also have a limited edition print of a Helen Frankenthaler painting that was used to advertise her 1969 exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York.  I have no idea if it is worth anything....I got it framed under glass at a thrift store for $8.
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« Reply #54 on: April 16, 2013, 08:13:38 AM »

TOD:

My collecting has dwindled greatly over the years, and much of what I used to collect, I have parted with...however, I am a sucker for 1950s kitsch and my current obsession is deer planters. Just something about them puts a smile on my face!


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« Reply #55 on: April 16, 2013, 08:32:36 AM »

Those pictures put a smile on my face, as well, Mike!

Of course, I remember items like that from 5-and-dime stores and from the homes of friends back in th 50s.  Hmmm...wonder how much of that stuff survived?
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« Reply #56 on: April 16, 2013, 08:36:05 AM »

'50s stuff, kitsch and all, is certainly what rings my bell.  But hey, I'm a boomer.  I do love later stuff, of course, but in differing contexts.
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« Reply #57 on: April 16, 2013, 08:39:08 AM »

What great news, Danise!
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« Reply #58 on: April 16, 2013, 08:40:46 AM »

Speaking of the word of the day VERBIAGE, this came in an email today.  i believe it is not objectionable:
especially in light of that commercial for that company for K-mart that says "I shipped my pants"

HERE'S THE EMAIL I GOT:

Manure... An interesting fact
 
Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be
transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial
fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when
wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier,
but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is
methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles
you can see what could (and did) happen.
Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came
below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!


Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined
just what was happening

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the
instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the
sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water
that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start
the production of methane.


Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has
come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

You probably did not know the true history of this word.

Neither did I.

I had always thought it was a golf term.
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« Reply #59 on: April 16, 2013, 08:53:38 AM »

This was a very enjoyable interview, Mr. BK, sir.

(Nice mention of the soon-to-change RealPlayer situation, too!)
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