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[MBarnum]

TOD:

to be able to dance


to learn a foreign language, fluently.

[MBarnum]

Page two Dance dance.

[singdaw]

TOD:


Like many other DRs, I'd love to become proficient in a foreign language or two. I used to be semi-fluent in Spanish, after studying for many years and then living in Madrid for a month, where I vowed to speak no English. It works!


I'd also love to learn to play the guitar and the cello, and to take the plunge, like bk did, and write a book.

[Ron Pulliam]

TOD:


Like many other DRs, I'd love to become proficient in a foreign language or two. I used to be semi-fluent in Spanish, after studying for many years and then living in Madrid for a month, where I vowed to speak no English. It works!


I'd also love to learn to play the guitar and the cello, and to take the plunge, like bk did, and write a book.

If I asked you, would you write a book?

[ChasSmith]

Yes also to green thumb, understanding and managing money, and learning other instruments.

[MBarnum]

New release from Warner Bros. Archive that might be exciting to a few DRs, or at least to DR Elmore and myself:

[singdaw]

Dance dance.

I'm not sure that I'm familiar with that one!     

[singdaw]

If I asked you, would you write a book?

How nicely would you ask?     

[singdaw]

Barbara, take off your pantyhose - and stuff them with melon balls!

[singdaw]

Expanded version of Audra's concert to be broadcast on PBS in August:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/180458-PBS-Will-Broadcast-Expanded-Version-of-Audra-McDonald-in-Concert-in-August

[elmore3003]

Expanded version of Audra's concert to be broadcast on PBS in August:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/180458-PBS-Will-Broadcast-Expanded-Version-of-Audra-McDonald-in-Concert-in-August

A must miss evening of tv!

[Jrand74]

Indeed.....

[Jrand74]

I now have a new musical term to add to the lexicon thanks the DR SINGDAW'S link:

Loudon Tempo

[Jrand74]

Well we got through Act One last night.....so we will start with Act Two tonight....and probably work on some dance numbers.  I messed up some lines last night, and I forgot a few....  But at least now I know I can get through it.  The only line I forgot in a scene was during the Janet/Robert scene:

"This scene couldn't be more ridiculous...."  So everything kind of came to a stop while I was waiting for them to continue.....

[Doug R]

TOD

I would have liked to be able to play the piano. We had one at home when I was young but I had no aptitude for it and got not much further than playing "chopsticks". 

[elmore3003]

I wish I spoke French with a better accent and no midwestern twang. And I wish when I was in college I had paid more attention to American history and government social studies.

[singdaw]

[Ron Pulliam]

If I asked you, would you write a book?

How nicely would you ask?     

With whipped cream and a cherry on top!

[John G.]

Page two Dance dance.

This is why I take lessons. I resemble this way too much.

[John G.]

I wish I spoke French with a better accent and no midwestern twang. And I wish when I was in college I had paid more attention to American history and government social studies.

Saturday night, we listened to a cheesemonger with a thick Texas accent speak in Italian. It prompted much laughter, but her Italian was surprisingly good, even if it sounded mangled and butchered almost beyond recognition.

[singdaw]

mangled and butchered almost beyond recognition

That will probably have to be the title of the book that DR Ron Pulliam is asking me so politely to write.     

[MBarnum]

Page two Dance dance.

This is why I take lessons. I resemble this way too much.

That is actually ok...unless of course you are doing the waltz.

[MBarnum]

I am dealing with a seller of movie memorablia who insists that I should be ok with my recent order of 10 vintage film booklets. I did order 10 film booklets, but 4 of those that he sent were were not the titles I had selected.

His response was that I paid for 10 booklets and I received 10 booklets. Oy!

[Jane]

Last night I watch a DVD I have called 84 Charing Cross Road.

It stars Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins.

I have watched it several times, and I still enjoy it so!

I guess only book lovers would love it like I do.  I said to my hubby, thats where I would have liked to had worked.  A beautiful bookstore in London surrounded by classical books.

I too love this movie.  Have you read the memoir by Helene Hanff? 

[Jane]

I'm Back!

Getting back to the movie 84 Charing Cross Road, there was a poem I espeially loved.

Anthony Hopkins, as Frank Doel reads a poem called HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN by
Williams Butler Yeats.

I think it is just beautiful.  Here it is for all your poem lovers:


Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread soflty because you tread on my dreams

Does anyone else love this poem like I do?

It is a beautiful poem.

[John G.]

Page two Dance dance.

This is why I take lessons. I resemble this way too much.

That is actually ok...unless of course you are doing the waltz.

I thought that's what they were dancing!

[Jane]

Last night I watch a DVD I have called 84 Charing Cross Road.

It stars Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins.

I have watched it several times, and I still enjoy it so!

I guess only book lovers would love it like I do.  I said to my hubby, thats where I would have liked to had worked.  A beautiful bookstore in London surrounded by classical books.

A good movie.

And a great book.  As I recall, an easy read that goes all too fast.

I love Helene Hanff's UNDERFOOT IN SHOW BUSINESS and I just order Q'S LEGACY, which sounds wonderful. I always wanted to meet her. I loved the book 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, I sorta liked the play on Broadway, and I have never seen the film.

I've only seen the first few scenes of the film.  That's not a put-down, and God knows I love the two stars.  But let's face it, it's not the kind of book that cries for translation to the screen.  I'll get around to it one of these days.  I think I have a TCM recording somewhere...

The actors are simply wonderful in it.

[Jane]

Page two Dance dance.

This is why I take lessons. I resemble this way too much.

[Jane]

I am dealing with a seller of movie memorablia who insists that I should be ok with my recent order of 10 vintage film booklets. I did order 10 film booklets, but 4 of those that he sent were were not the titles I had selected.

His response was that I paid for 10 booklets and I received 10 booklets. Oy!

   Good luck getting what you ordered.

[singdaw]

Page two Dance dance.

This is why I take lessons. I resemble this way too much.

That is actually ok...unless of course you are doing the waltz.

I thought that's what they were dancing!

They're probably trying to avoid stepping on all the melon balls.