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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes from soup to nuts and also from nuts to soup, and now you know that you most post until the souped up cows come home.  To it, I say.

[Panni]

I'm a big fan of soup -- and of nuts --- so the TOD is one I like. I shall consider it tomorrow/today because right now I'm tired.

[Jay]

Well, you've read the notes from soup to nuts and also from nuts to soup, and now you know that you most post until the souped up cows come home.  To it, I say.

Split pea soup with....wait for it....ham chunks...can't be beat.

Cream of mushroom is quite special, too.

Vichyssoise vichisoise vichissoisse cold potato and leek soup can be very refreshing on a hot evening.

And sometimes, nothing else will do but good ol' chicken soup, be it with matzoballs or kreplach.

[JoseSPiano]

Good Evening!  Good Morning!

Yes, indeedee, it was a great show and a great audience tonight/last night.  And after the "Coming Attractions" sections, as BK mentioned, I had to hold a bit longer than usual.  It was one of those times where each time I started to bring my fingers to the keyboard, the applause, hoots, hollers, etc., would get louder... Then I would try a few seconds later, and "it" would get louder again... And so on, and so on... I eventually started the intro for the next song, but I had even come up with a "alternate" intro just in case the applause kept going.  

RE: "Testosterone" - As DR Jay mentioned, we saw this movie yesterday.  And, yes, Jennifer Coolidge's line toward the end of the movie is priceless!!! -And I can't wait to hear him use it!!!  I, too, was puzzled by the ending, but I think I've come up with an "explanation".  Who knows?  I may have to go out and get the original book now.  Ah, well...

RE: Soup - Hmmm... There are some days when nothing but a can - yes a can! - of Campbell's Chicken Soup or Campbell's Tomato will do.  Otherwise, I also like the Vietnamese "pho" in all it's variations, seafood bisques, minestrone (especially the "northern" style which does not have tomatoes in it), chowders, stews, etc.  There's a Filipino soup called "chicken mami" - it's basically chicken soup with garlic and noodles with fried garlic chips on top for crunch and flavor.  And I got hooked on this homemade black bean soup recipe a few years ago.  I made batches of it week in, week out.  It was sooo good.   Hmm... I wonder if I can track down the recipe on-line...

Otherwise, the classic soup recipe:

1- Open can...

<ba-doom chick!>

-If not me, someone else..

Goodnight.

[JoseSPiano]

But before I go to bed... -I started reading the NYTimes on-line... Lots of interesting tidbits... Including Eisner handing in his "resignation" today - of course, he just will not be renewing his contract when it is up in 2006, so...  In any case...

I believe it was DR RLP who posted this yesterday:

My absolute FAVORITE recording of "Enigma Variations" is one that was on the Angel lp label with Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic.  I found it during a Thanksgiving 1974 trip to London and have favored it ever since.  I've other recordings of it that have great things to be said about them, but the Boult "feels" best to me (I admire the Bernstein but it's a bit langorous in pacing).

Best of all is that I found this recording on CD and it arrived this very day via UPS.  I can't wait to hear it, although it's on the "budget" Seraphim label.  I fear it won't be as sonically splendid as the LP remains, but at a cost of $3.98, it's totally worth it!

I have the Boult recording, but mine is on the Angel Great Recordings of the Century series that was released a few years ago.  It's coupled with a very nice reading of Holst's "The Planets".  Great re-mastering, and a nice booklet too.  So, if you're not "happy" with your Seraphim edition, you may want to investigate the Great Recordings re-issue.

[JoseSPiano]

OH!  And DR PennyO posted this yesterday:

So I'll fly to LA next Thursday to have Rosh Hashanah with the family, back to Seattle Friday, head down to LA in the car with all my stuffaround the 20th, hang with the parents, then whoosh! I'm off the NYC Sept. 29!!! Oh, JOY!!!!!

So which performance of What If? will you be attending?  

[Ben]

I love all kinds of soup. Minestrone is a fave as is DR Jay's mention of split pea soup with ham chunks. I also like to add toasted croutons. MMM, MMM Good. I also love pumpkin soup and carrot soup. Cold soup faves are gazpacho and some desserty soups like cold fruit soups.

Jane, I have your CD pressed and waiting for your arrival. I don't know if you've seen all of Anthony's doll house pictures but I will make sure we have them so you can browse to your heart's content.

I'm at work right now having just finished a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and a nectarine and a cup of black coffee. I may go bowling tonight with friends, since Mr. Morelli is on Long Island clowning around.

I found another CD bargain yesterday, the television soundtrack to Liza with a Z. I have it on tape but there it was in Academy calling out to me. At $5.99 how could I resist. I do think it's Liza doing some of her best stuff. Bye, Bye Blackbird is wonderful.

And now I must get to work!

[Jennifer]

Oh I'm so excited, my bed is in town.  I just checked on the UPS website.  I don't think they deliver here on Saturdays. But I will call now to find out.  Either way I will have my bed by Monday!

DR MattH asked if I could explain the end of Joey.  Okay let me see what I can remember.  So Joey asks his new neighbor to dinner. And she says she's married, "didn't you notice the ring?".  And of course he says, "yeah but it wasn't on your left hand" (and points to her left hand which is on HIS right)

We then see Nancy O'Dell (sp?) from Access Hollywood saying what a success the show Nurses was (that Joey turned down). And they are interviewing the lead saying "i wasn't the first to be offered the lead, some guy named Joey Tribani (saying his name wrong) was".  And then Nancy repeats his name, saying that guy must be mad.

At some point Joey's sister decides to let her son move in with Joey.  But now Joey has no job.  He goes to see his agent (Jennifer Coolidge) (not sure if you saw this part). And he gets an audition for a game show I think. But they are just having him read news type stuff from a prompter.  WEll from 3. ANd every time the light goes on Joey has to switch where he is looking (which he can't do).

Now I'm trying to remember the ending. I know Joey's nephew is at joey's place and joey starts saying what  a nag is sis is. And then she comes out (and joey says to his nephew "we need to find a signal for when she's here).

And then joey's sister pulls his ear and makes him say that he has a gay crush on david cassidy.

Also at the end joey screams out accidently that she was a single mom at 16 (she had told her son 22) and then the smart son/joey's nephew says, "how did i not figure that out?"

I don't remember the exact ending. But it was just more of the same.

Hope that helped.

[Matt H.]

Thanks, Jennifer. Some of the episodes you described actually happened before the business with the neighbor and Joey mentioning the ring not being on her left hand (which it was because por dumb Joey doesn't know left from right). But I appreciate the information.

I was hoping NBC would rerun the show tonight since they basically use Saturday as a dumping ground for reruns of the week's shows. Instead, they're rerunning THE APPRENTICE (along with an episode of CROSSING JORDAN).

I'm sure that JOEY pilot episode will be rerun sometime in before the holidays since show rarely have a totally rerun-free string of episodes before Christmas. At some point I'll see it.

[Matt H.]

If I'm in a restaurant and order soup, it's almost always French onion if I have a choice. I just love it.

Around the home environment, however, it's canned soup all the way. My local grocery store carries a line of soups under their own label that are among the best canned soups I've ever tasted. My favorite is called Tomato Garden, and it is so chocked full of vegetables that it's mind-numbing. The cans are tall and about half of the can will fill an average sized bowl to the brim. If I didn't have to watch my weight, I'd crumble crackers or bread into the soup, but, alas, one must eat it as is.

[Matt H.]

One of the DVDs that came in the mail yesterday was RODAN, probably my favorite of the Japanese monster movies of the 1950s. I must have paid to see it (15 cents) three or four times as a kid, but haven't seen it in many decades. I got the disc used so I'm curious how it'll hold up to my adult eyes. I'm hoping it will carry me back to being nine or ten again.

[Jay]

I'm sure that JOEY pilot episode will be rerun sometime in before the holidays since show rarely have a totally rerun-free string of episodes before Christmas. At some point I'll see it.

No doubt promoted with a tag line along the lines of "Relive the Magic."

[bk]

unfortunately, the Rodan DVDs are all sub-par (the PD ones) with faded colors.  I have superb Japanese laserdisc of it, which unfortunately has no subtitles, but I know the film well enough that it makes sense.

[bk]

Now, might I ask where in tarnation IS everyone on this Saturday morning?

[bk]

Soup: Their used to be a wonderful place on Sunset near La Cienega whose name I never remember (it starts with a "B") which had the best cream of mushroom soup ever.  It was a garden-like setting (south side of street, down some steps) and I used to go there on Sundays occasionally and have a big bowl.  I love good Wor-Wonton Soup.  I love good chicken soup with a matzoh ball, but I'm very picky.  I like the Lobster Bisque (or whatever they call it now) at the Hamlet, and I love good French Onion soup with lots of cheese on top.  

[Ben]

MMM, French Onion Soup w/chewy, stringy cheese! I love it.

[Emily]

Ooooooohhh soup!

Minestrone

French Onion soup (only the version that has been in my family for hundreds of years!)

Homemade Chicken Noodle

Cream of Mushroom/Cream of brocolli

Homemade Vegetable (preferably made with red cabbage so that it turns a beatiful purple colour)

Miso with mushrooms

Hot and Sour with LOTS of tofu

[Jay]

Soup: Their used to be a wonderful place on Sunset near La Cienega whose name I never remember (it starts with a "B") which had the best cream of mushroom soup ever.  It was a garden-like setting (south side of street, down some steps) and I used to go there on Sundays occasionally and have a big bowl.  

The restaurant was called Barrymore's, as it was housed in the guest house of the old John Barrymore estate.  The setting was exquisite, the food was wonderful, the service friendly and the prices reasonable.  I do believe it was the House of Blues monolith that went up next door that rang its death knell.  It was a wonderful place and THE number 1 restaurant to bring out of town visitors to.  I obviously lament its demise to this day.

[Panni]

While I was walking this morning I came upon a garage sale at the house of a well-known character actor - the sale was actually to benefit a SAG election group. I bought some of the actor's albums - he went through the stack with me and approved of my purchases - said he knew most of the people on said albums. Soooo - I got the original cast recordings of SHE LOVES ME, NO STRINGS, WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN, OLIVER, ANNIE, THE SOUND OF MUSIC - and the most interesting one -  MRS PATTERSON, starring Eartha Kitt. Plus "The Entertainer" (Marvin Hamlisch) and the MOST intersting album: POLITICS & POKER: Songs to Get Elected by Sung by Howard da Silva and the Ward Heelers. (sic)

[Jennifer]

For those who watch the Apprentice, yes NBC is re-running it tonight. But it's a 2 hour episode with some new footage.

[MBarnum]

DR Matth, Rodan is such a fun movie! I think you will still enjoy it!

DR Panni, who was the well-known character actor who was having this garage sale?

Favorite soup: Homemade soups are, of course, the tastiest around and the split green pea with ham chunks is certainly a fave...oddly enough I didn't like split pea much as a kid.

About a year ago I went to a Russian restaurant in Portland and the soup was Borscht...man was it tasty! Yum, yum!

Pretty much I like about any type of soup, but Oyster stew is likely my fave.

[William E. Lurie]

Any time (oh - an Eddie Fisher reference for those DRs old enough to remember) I make a ham I always use the bones and remnents to make pea soup.  It comes out better than any restaurant or canned pea soup I have ever had.

***

KRISTIN CHENOWETH AT CARNEGIE HALL was an entertaining evening despite a couple of faults.  On the positive side, she was in excellent voice and looked beautiful.  Her between-song-patter was a delight.  On the negative side, her selection of songs left much to be desired.

Ms. Chenoweth is obviously trying to remove herself from her Broadway roots, and therefore most of her selections were not showtunes, to mixed results.  A couple of attempts at c&w (which will be on her next CD) came off as a diva slumming and a number by her conductor Andrew Lipa’s musical in progress BETTY BOOP was also an error, and the one time she and the orchestra weren’t at the same tempo.  However one non-showtune --- a  Stephen Foster song, no less --- was one of the highlights of the show, as was “Taylor”, a song she had made her own until John Tartaglia started doing it.

In STEEL PIER, Kristin showed she could dance as well as sing, but it was not apparent last night.  Despite choreography by Kathleen Marshall and two Broadway back-up dancers ((David Elder and Seán Martin Hingston), the dancing was very weak.

Two other problems… Carnegie Hall has excellent acoustics, so there was no need for such loud amplification.  I’m not saying that she should have done the concert off mike, but not only was it loud, when she moved across the stage the sound stayed the same instead of coming from the area she was in.  Also, a 24 minute intermission after only 42 minutes was not needed.

However when she sang a Jerome Kern medley, and especially an encore of “Glitter and Be Gay”, all was right with the world and you knew why this pixie from Oklahoma had made it all the way to Carnegie Hall.

[bk]

Packers are here.  Dry rot people are here.  

[bk]

Amusing thing of the day: The very nice Hispanic man putting on the new door to the garage is humming Terry's Theme from Limelight.  

[bk]

People are just sitting there like so much fish.  

Not Barrymore's - BUTTERFIELDS, I think.  That sounds right, doesn't it?

[George]

I'm here, but not for long.  I have a very busy day:  I have to help my sister (what else is new? ) put up some shelves in her garage (she's getting it ready so that she can have a garage sale in a few weeks...of course, she's not selling the garage itself).  Hopefully, if that doesn't take too long, I want to go to work to make up a few hours.  I don't have much vacation time and I tend to take long lunches and leave on time, so that I have to either use vacation time or come in on Saturdays.  I like the option, though...just not when I have so much to do!

Then tonight, whether I work or help my sister or not, I'm ushering for a local production.  It's an annual event presented by Wrinkles of Washington.  This year it's called "A Gathering of Wrinkles." They are "Puget Sound's Premier Senior Citizen Entertainment Troupe!" (members have to be at least 55 years old) and they put on a show every year.  It's actually quite enjoyable!  So that's my day.

[DearReaderLaura]

I love soup. I love to make soup when it's cold outside. Unfortunately, today it will be about 107F, so no soup for me.

As luck would have it, my DH bought a ham last night, so soon I shall have a lovely ham bone with which to make soup.

My church always has an soup-tasting party on New Year's Eve.  There are always a dozen or so soups from which to sample. I always make a vegetable soup, since DR Sandra is vegetarian. I spend the previous day making vegetable soup stock from scratch, letting it simmer all night. And, of course, after Thanksgiving and Christmas there is always wonderful turkey soup.

In June, when we had lots of home-grown tomatoes, we made gazpacho, which is always yummy on hot days.

[DearReaderLaura]

Today DR Sandra and I are going to see the touring "Oliver." We always park the car early and walk somewhere for lunch -- usually Chili's, since it's the closest to the theater. Isn't that exciting?

[George]

As for soups, I was never really a fan at all of soups.  It's not that I have anything against them, but a soup would never be the first thing I'd pick, if given a bunch of options.

[George]

And on that note (E-flat),