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« Reply #180 on: August 12, 2014, 09:08:54 PM »

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« Reply #181 on: August 12, 2014, 09:15:49 PM »

TCB  ...  certainly you knew , in theatre timing is everything!


If my timing had been any better, they would have announced that Miss Bacall's understudy would have been going on that night.

I saw her twice in WOMAN OF THE YEAR at the Palace, preview and post-opening, and I found her dreadful, coasting in a really ugly production, couldn't dance, she could barely sing. Thank God Marilyn Cooper showed up to kick the show's ass into gear in Act Two. She and Bernadette Peters gave two of the most lousy Tony winning performances I've ever seen from a "star."  After Lansbury won for in SWEENEY TODD and Rita Moreno for THE RITZ, comparing Bacall and Peters weren't even worth nominating.  Then I saw Raquel Welch, who was much better than Bacall in a show that was always a second-rater, but I also saw her in the role while Bacall was on vacation and she was behaving. Once she officially replaced Bacall, I understand she became difficult and stopped being everyone's friend backstage.

However, I loved APPLAUSE, and I think Bacall was wonderful in films.  I really loved her episode of THE SOPRANOS, and I wish I'd seen her onstage in FORTY CARATS.
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« Reply #182 on: August 12, 2014, 09:22:10 PM »

Ghost-B-Gone  Vibes for Elmore

One of the ghosts is becoming quite pushy lately.


What is he / she / it doing?

Strange things happen about the apartment:
  1. occasional voices: the man, the German(?) lady, the whistler
  2. someone's playing at the computer; I'm up now because it came on again and woke me. Perhaps they want to communicate.
  3. some nights I hear a lot of voices talking from a far distance as if I were milling about a large crowd wearing earplugs.
  4. often around 3 or 4 am I'm aware of lots of footsteps and walking about.
  5. I hear things move behind me or in another room.
  6. I see people out of the corner of my eye.

After 35 years here I'm pretty used to it.  I generally tend to speak up and say "do you want something?" or "what's going on?" but some nights it creeps me out.
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« Reply #183 on: August 12, 2014, 09:28:56 PM »

Apparently, yesterday (8/11) there were false reports of Bacall's death and again this morning.  Both times, her people officially called the reports a hoax.  And then later today, she really died.
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« Reply #184 on: August 12, 2014, 09:29:01 PM »

I received a polaroid camera as a Christmas gift one yearwhen I was a kid --- I f don't remember the model  but it came with a little bottle of fixative that you had to  brush over the print
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« Reply #185 on: August 12, 2014, 09:29:20 PM »

Always Good Vibes for DR Cilla~~~~~~
Amen.
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« Reply #186 on: August 12, 2014, 09:29:38 PM »

Apparently, yesterday (8/11) there were false reports of Bacall's death and again this morning.  Both times, her people officially called the reports a hoax.  And then later today, she really died.

I heard the same thing happened with Robin Williams....
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« Reply #187 on: August 12, 2014, 09:29:46 PM »

Elmore, I hope the ghosts let you have a good night's sleep.
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« Reply #188 on: August 12, 2014, 09:34:09 PM »

Elmore, I hope the ghosts let you have a good night's sleep.

I think a lot of the time, they get to me when there are other things preventing me from sleeping. Several years ago, the computer situation got so bad that I'd unplug it before going to bed. Now it's picking up steam again and happening almost every night, so I may start unplugging it again.  The voices happen at odd times during the day; I'll be reading and suddenly the lady will say something, or the man will. The whistler happened the other morning, Sunday I think.
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« Reply #189 on: August 12, 2014, 09:41:03 PM »

I forgot that I saw Bacall in Noel Coward's WAITING IN THE WINGS with my friends Simon Jones, and Barney Hughes and his wife Helen Stenborg. I really miss Barney and Helen. I think Rosemary Harris was in it, too; lovely lady, but I can't say we're friends. Even though we spent several weeks at Abbey Road recording in 2001, Rosemary's never sure why she knows me, and after I remind her, she looks at me as if she's too polite to say, "No shit?"
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« Reply #190 on: August 12, 2014, 09:52:12 PM »

I forgot that I saw Bacall in Noel Coward's WAITING IN THE WINGS with my friends Simon Jones, and Barney Hughes and his wife Helen Stenborg. I really miss Barney and Helen. I think Rosemary Harris was in it, too; lovely lady, but I can't say we're friends. Even though we spent several weeks at Abbey Road recording in 2001, Rosemary's never sure why she knows me, and after I remind her, she looks at me as if she's too polite to say, "No shit?"

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« Reply #191 on: August 12, 2014, 10:05:49 PM »

I forgot that I saw Bacall in Noel Coward's WAITING IN THE WINGS with my friends Simon Jones, and Barney Hughes and his wife Helen Stenborg. I really miss Barney and Helen. I think Rosemary Harris was in it, too; lovely lady, but I can't say we're friends. Even though we spent several weeks at Abbey Road recording in 2001, Rosemary's never sure why she knows me, and after I remind her, she looks at me as if she's too polite to say, "No shit?"

Crista Moore was in it, too.
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« Reply #192 on: August 12, 2014, 10:06:01 PM »

Listening to the master for The Spider - great.
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« Reply #193 on: August 12, 2014, 10:07:14 PM »

As those who've read Album Produced By know, I absolutely loved and was completely smitten with Miss Bacall from my one experience working with her and from our several phone conversations after.  I'll recount that story in the notes tonight.

I just read the short version of your story on FB.  I loved reading the book and I enjoyed re-reading the story. :)
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« Reply #194 on: August 12, 2014, 10:12:37 PM »

Now Lauren Bacall has died.

I have told this story before.  When my Mom and my aunt came to New Jersey to visit me, they wanted to go see a show.  So I got us tickets to WOMAN OF THE YEAR.  I drove them to the Palace Theatre and then I went to park the car.  When I got back to the theater, they were all excited because Miss Bacall had arrived and stopped to chat with them.  After the show I went and got the car, and when I got back, apparently Lauren by this time, had come out and stopped to see if my mom and aunt had enjoyed the show.  Then she was afraid to leave them alone, so she got the security guard from next door to keep an eye on them until I got back.

At least I got to see her onstage.

Love that story, Tom!
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« Reply #195 on: August 12, 2014, 10:15:02 PM »

Lately every time  I see Cilla post  I think....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIcKkKID8k


LOL< that's what my dad said when I told him I was applying. And what he said when my brother became a magistrate.  Keep those good vibes coming.  In one week I should know how many applicants and who they are.

~~~Continued Judgeship Vibes for Cillaliz!!~~~
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« Reply #196 on: August 12, 2014, 11:42:20 PM »

Damn can't sleep.

Time for a pill.
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