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[TCB]

~~~Five~~~Five~~~~Five~~~Five~~~

[TCB]

THE SUBSTITUTE POOL GUY - sounds like a promising movie title

Or an elmore VHS tape.

[TCB]

Happy Birthday to DH Skip!

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Ok I am off to seek swimmin' (assuming the substitute pool guy has shown up )  or eatin'



I expect to be E & T until  i get home tonight

have a lovely day !

Don't forget to have last night's cocktail for breakfast!

[Jrand74]

Thank you DR JANE.....she can be when she wants to be.

[elmore3003]

It's time to get ready for tonight's show.

One of our Amazon.com reviews for ROBERTA says this of my friend Laura, who plays the nasty debutramp Sophie Teale on the ROBERTA recording:
Laura Daniel deserves a special award for bitchiest bitch this side of the Bitchissippi.

Here we are at the recording session last February. We met when she played the title role in the 2006 Musical theatre Festival production of The Tragic and Horrible Life of the singing Nun.

[Jennifer]

The weather forecasts are now saying that the expected snow might be rain instead. I am really hoping for rain vs snow.

[TCB]

I thought you all might enjoy seeing this e-mail I received this morning, and my response to it.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I recently purchased this soundtrack from MovieMusic.com. However I was thoroughly disappointed by the contents of this CD. Why wasn't the jazz music provided by Gerry Mulligan and Sam Butera included in this CD. That music was an integral part of the soundtrack, in fact, it is the most important part. The whole point of the movie is that Tony Curtis is playing the part of a saxophone player, yet none of his music is included in the soundtrack???

Who are the idiots who decided to create this CD yet not bother to include the main feature of the soundtrack? Was it Bernstein? Kritzerland? Both? Or someone else?

In any event, this CD is nothing but an empty piece of crap.

Sincerely disappointed,

Name of Sender deleted

And the response:

Dear Sir or Madam

We are pleased to inform you that you win the prize for the single most obnoxious e-mail we have ever received.  Congratulations are in order. 

We are a record label in the business of licensing soundtracks from various studios.  In the case of The Rat Race we licensed from Paramount the soundtrack to a film called The Rat Race, which was composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein.  Now, when we license a soundtrack we can only issue what the studio actually can license - in the case of this particular film it was the score by Bernstein, including some of his original source cues.  They did not have nor could they have licensed the Butera and Mulligan source material.  There was an album released at the time of the film with Sam Butera and the Witnesses.  I can't remember how much of what's on that were the source cues from the film, but it really doesn't matter because the bottom line is that the idiots who actually own the Bernstein score licensed it to the idiots at Kritzerland and the idiots at Kritzerland put it out and sold it to an awful lot of grateful soundtrack idiots all over the world.  It's a superb soundtrack and has some of the best musicians in history playing on it, both Hollywood players AND jazz players. 

While under the best of circumstances idiotic Paramount would have owned it all, they did not, nor did they even have tapes on any of it.  The lack of tapes makes things REALLY difficult to issue as you might imagine, you not being an idiot and all. 

We are, of course, sorry that the great score by Mr. Bernstein is not to your liking and that you consider the CD an empty piece of crap.  We have two suggestions as to what you might do with it, but we'll just give you one of them: Donate it to a library or a friend who may appreciate its contents.

Sincerely,
The Idiots at Kritzerland

Gee, Bruce, I didn't think you would get my e-mail so quickly!

[TCB]

I would have had seconds of all of that, DR vixmom.

I would have skipped the oats.

[TCB]

Being Los means you get to be a member of AARP which means late checkout for the likes of me!

What is Los?  In English.

[singdaw]

Lots of happy photos here at HHW today!         

[singdaw]

DR Jane's digs while traveling:

[singdaw]

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Hotel Nayara, Costa Rica

[TCB]

We went around the corner to Vive la Crepe for lunch.  We each had a savory crepe and we shared an apple cinnamon crepe for dessert.  Then we went for a medium-long walk around the UWS to counteract our indulgence.

I finally figured out you were talking about the Upper West Side.  I thought you kept talking about some university in Manhattan.

[TCB]

We woke up at 5:45 Sat morning and have not gone to sleep yet, except for my short nap this morning on the drive to the hotel.

Were you driving?

[Jrand74]

Time for America's Funniest Home Videos and later.....The Comeback....

[Jane]

We woke up at 5:45 Sat morning and have not gone to sleep yet, except for my short nap this morning on the drive to the hotel.

Were you driving?

Yup.  Our flight was out of LA

[Cillaliz]

Strap on the snowshoes, DR Jrand64!!

I am hoping we have enough snow this year that I can take up snow shoeing.  I've wanted to do it for the past two yeas but we haven't had enough snow.  There are trails at a nearby nature preserve and you can rent or buy the shoes.  I think it sounds like fun. I also have cross country skis I haven't been able to use in years

[Cillaliz]

Being Los means you get to be a member of AARP which means late checkout for the likes of me!

What is Los?  In English.

I'm guessing it's old

[Cillaliz]

Time for America's Funniest Home Videos and later.....The Comeback....

I don't watch this often but it's made me laugh a lot tonight

[Cillaliz]

We woke up at 5:45 Sat morning and have not gone to sleep yet, except for my short nap this morning on the drive to the hotel.

Were you driving?

Yup.  Our flight was out of LA

YOU were sleeping and driving??? OH MY!!

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

I'm glad the NY KL shows last night were such a success. Hope tonight's are just as wonderful.

[Jeanne]

Cilla, I like your new coat. It looks very warm and practical! Did you buy the black, as was pictured?

[Jeanne]

I ordered black for my new puff jacket.

[Jennifer]

All the snow from this morning melted. Yahoo.

I wish i had cross country skis.  I'm pretty sure one could do this around the lake (where the bike path is).

[Jeanne]

I find myself surrounded by rudeness this weekend. The twenty-somethings next door have started having their little parties again. We've spoken to them repeatedly about their noise, but they insist that they should be able to do whatever they want. I have trouble understanding how people can be so inconsiderate. In the past, the manager and owner chose not to address it--it was up to us, the tenants, to talk to them and "persuade" them to behave. Anyone have a copy of THE MAFIA DON'S GUIDE TO PERSUASION?   

[Cillaliz]

Cilla, I like your new coat. It looks very warm and practical! Did you buy the black, as was pictured?

Yes, I did.  I've had coats that length before, but this one is roomy enough that it's very comfortable when I sit down to drive etc.  I'm all about practical