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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, you know that chicken is the theme, you've hummed the theme from chicken, and how it is time to post until the chicken themed cows come home.

[Sandra]

I'm saying my paper is done. It's not quite four pages, but I've said all I have to say and then some. I am going to sleep!!

[George]

Well, it had a lot of words (and several passages of said words went right over my head), but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was a wonderful production of a wonderful show.  It just zipped along and it seemed that everyone said everything that they were supposed to (in other words, no awkward pauses or obvious mistakes).  I always like that in a show.

Anyway, in honor of chicken being the theme of the day, I thought I'd watch "Chicken Run," "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" "Porn 'n Chicken" and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."

Actually, I don't have any of these movies.  It just sounds funny.

[George]

Yesterday, Panni wrote:

I guess the new Aladdin DVD doesn't have the famous "Take off your clothes" moment. And that's not an urban legend. I, Panni, personally saw it.

When did this happen in the movie? I'd never heard of this happening.

In response, S. Woody wrote:

I thought that was a "heard it" moment.

There have been a lot of slips in the Disney catalogue over the years. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is filled with them, some intentional for those with freeze frame capabilities. "For a good time, call Alice," on a bathroom wall, for instance. But I've never been sure whether Jessica's panties was intentional or not.

I have the original release of the laserdisc and I would think that it's intentional that Jessica ain't got no panties on!  Also, when Baby Herman walks under some woman after shooting the Baby Herman movie, it's very obvious that his middle finger is sticking up as he does it...as he pushes her skirt out of his way.

[Jrand74]

I used to always laugh when I played the chickens singing "In the Mood."

[Jrand74]

I just saw this really strange movie that I did not know existed.  It was called BLUE SUNSHINE and starred Zalman King and Mark Goddard.  And if anyone has seen it, you know why I am now bewitched, bothered, and bewildered....well, bewildered anyway!

What was that.

DR TD - this movie must be immediately paired with THE APPLE for a double feature night of....well....

[Jrand74]

In the DVD player:

JUST FOR YOU - the color is fantastic.  Jane and Bing are a fine match.  Robert Arthur is cute.  Ethel Barrymore's reaction when Bing suggests they get married is as funny and perfect as anything....  And little Natalie Wood has a sequence when she doesn't wear anything on her left wrist and it is indeed disfigured, with her wrist bone sticking out at an odd angle.  In most films and photos she ALWAYS wore something on her left wrist to cover it....

CD - Phantom of the Opera, OBC

VCR - Some Allison Hayes surprises, taping to send to DRJAY.

[Danise]

Morning all!

It is 64 degrees here in sunny Florida!  The weatherman is starting his "crisp" crap again.  I'm here to tell you--it's COLD!


François de Paris --I'm sorry, I must have missed your post about Tom and England.  

Gotta run for the bus!  Have a good day all!

 

[Ben]

Busy day at work today. Thankfully only two more Saturdays (tomorrow and the 16th) and one more week of arriving at 6am!

DR Francois, thanks for the clarification. Entre act. So that's where that word comes from   Yes, you must see more of your own country, young man!

The Grand Canyon is an amazing thing. Even for one with a fear of heights. I recommend it highly.

Ireland is a wonderful country. I fell in love with it and would go back in a heartbeat. From what I hear, while no civilized country is without poverty, much of the poverty that suffused Ireland in the 80s has been lessened. Ireland's economy has been improving and it's considered a model for small countries now. They have a large technology sector and the brain drain of young people, from what I've heard, while not stopped completely, is not as severe as it was in the 80s when I was there.

Anthony is feeling better and is now back in the city. He regrets missing the dinner party on Wednesday.

Glad to hear DR Elmore was such a great tour guide to DR Jane. Second Avenue Deli. Good Choice! It was a lovely day for sightseeing yesterday.

DR Jose, your avatar disappeared for a while this morning. I thought you were going to put up a new one but then the old one re-appeared.

I'm listening to BBC Radio 3 right now. I don't know what I will listen to during the day. I forgot to bring CDs with me this morning. I have tapes to listen to, though. Many, many tapes (brought in before I was able to listen to CDs). I could conceiveably listen to Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Morris, Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Feinstein, Romanovsky and Phillips, Noel Coward and any number of Broadway musicals. I just don't know at this point.

We watched the last episode of Two's Company last night. It was cute. Now I've seen the entire run of the show. I'm glad. I read that after Two's Company, Ms. Stritch went into the British version of Maude. I can't remember what it was called but it only ran for two seasons. She was the writer for the first season. When first approached to do the show she said she didn't like the character but if she could write it she would be interested. I've never seen it listed on DVD or VHS and as far as I know it's never been part of a Britcom playing cycle on PBS.

Anthony brought in a DVD with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette McDonald and I'm so tired I can't remember the name of the movie. Score by Rodgers and Hart. Oh, well. We will watch it this weekend if I don't fall asleep.

I needs must return to the printouts.

DR Jane, if you see this, it was wonderful to meet you. Hope you have a safe and uneventful trip back to Oregon. Enjoy the CD. See you (on-line) soon.

[beckon]

MEDIA CHECK

Cassette: Annie Get Your Gun (JAY w/ Judy Kaye & Barry Bostwick), Bette Midler's Songs For A New Depression

CD: Floyd Collins, Assassins (OC)

[Dan (the Man)]

MEDIA CHECK

Cassette: Annie Get Your Gun (JAY w/ Judy Kaye & Barry Bostwick), Bette Midler's Songs For A New Depression

I've always considered Songs For A New Depression to be the last of the good Midler studio recordings.  It was such an odd ecclectic mix of songs that somehow worked.  After that, she went disco and then pop and then self-consciously attempted to go back to camp, but she never really recaptured the sheer fun of those first four albums (I'm counting Live in Cleveland here.)

[Dan-in-Toronto]

Since Chicken is the theme, I thought I'd pop PROMENADE into the CD player and listen to:

"Chicken Is He" (Who Does Not Adore Me)

I love this musical. I also love the poster/cover art by Morrow, with a voluptuous naked lady popping out of the top of a big cake while prisoners, a policeman, and an elegant older couple spin about the base.



Earlier, I was listening to the cassette of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.
For tonight's video viewing, I'm thinking about renting TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE.

[Ben]

Right now I'm listening to an old cassette of Sarah Vaughan  Live in Japan. It's one of those that will need to be transferred to CD. I love this concert. I think it's 1972 or 1973. Sarah Vaughan was AMAZING (IMHO). I saw her once in concert at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. What a show!

[Ben]

I have nothing about Chicken to add to the day's discussion.

[Dan (the Man)]

Media Chick of Me

CD Player (at the coop):  Queen Latifah, The Dana Owens Album -- this one is wonderful!  Queen Latifah posesses such a warm inviting voice.  She doesn't attempt to imitate any of the great women of blues--she's her own gal!  Go out and buy this CD!

CD Player (at work):  Bernstein, conducting the NY Philharmonic, doing the Candide overture, dances from WSW, suite from On the Waterfront, and the Fancy Free ballet.  Just 'cause...

DVD Player:  Nothing right now, but Fahrenheit 9/11 is on the tap for this weekend.

VHS:  The last hour of Love Me Tonight, which I've already watched.  However, also on for this weekend will be the complete and uncut version of Tiger Cruise, generously supplied to me by DR George.

[Dan (the Man)]

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[William E. Lurie]

CD - HENRY, SWEET HENRY which I am seeing tomorrow; also the newly released OBCs of SOMETHING MORE (Barbara Cook) and A JOYFUL NOISE (John Raitt)

DVD - Before the deluge of new releases Tuesday I'm catching up on old tv - "Our Miss Brooks" and :The Mothers-In-Law", both with Eve Arden.

VHS - Nothing

Books - The new Ethan Mordeen "The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen" covering musicals from the last 23 years.  (His volume on thr 30s musicals comes out in March which will complete the series).

[Ben]

DTM, is that what's called

The Chicken Dance???

:-)

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!  Today I spend the day with my friend Ginny, from my hometown.  Tomoorow, I don't get out of bed!

Dear Friend BK, my first roommate in New York, Melanie Carvil, was Jack MacGowran's stepdaughter.  Unfortunately, she had no stories about THE EXORCIST or DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES.  My first memory of seeing him was in TOM JONES.  The MacGowran family was cursed:  Jack died after filming THE EXORCIST and Melanie died of a brain tumor around 1987.  I have a wonderful photo of her holding a Siamese cat.

DRD-I-T, I too love PROMENADE and I regret missing it when it opened in 1969.  In grad school the costume shop played the recording constantly, and it turned out that one of the friends of a boy in the theatre dept. was the nephew of Shannon Bolin, so he saw the musical several times.  He said that Shannon was very protective of him because there were few straight men in the show!

So much for gossip.  I have nothing in any contraption this morning.  When I go to the recording office, I plan on listening to HAINES HIS WAY, and possibly THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER, because I haven't yet determined if I think it's first-rate Noel Coward or not; my last opinion:  third-rate, except for Tessie O'Shea.

DVD:  I have to watch over the weekend THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY and return it to Netflix.  After that, possibly Olivier's RICHARD III since DRMattH has been talking about it in the past few days.

[Dan (the Man)]

DTM, is that what's called

The Chicken Dance???

:-)

[Dan (the Man)]

DVD - Before the deluge of new releases Tuesday I'm catching up on old tv - "Our Miss Brooks" and :The Mothers-In-Law", both with Eve Arden.

The Mothers-In-Law is on DVD?  This, I got to have!

[MBarnum]

Media check:

VHS: DAMES, LOVE ME TONIGHT, and GOLDDIGGERS OF 1935. Hope to get to all three this weekend.

CD: CLEOPATRA CAFE volumes 1 and 2.

And my Bollywood movie, which I watched last night:

NEELA AKASH (1965). Cute, colorful romance about love between and airline pilot and a flight attendant.

[Noel]

I listened to Wicked so much, prepping for my Schwartz group interview, I got quite sick of it and had to throw on his lovely Baker's Wife to cleanse the palette.  Also, some Saint-Saens concerti and the CD that goes with the upcoming PBS documentary Broadway: The American Musical.

Unopened are some sampler CDs from the upcoming Broadway musicals Bklyn and All Shook Up.  There's no "roo" in Bklyn.  People call it Brooklyn, and, indeed, the lead character, a girl from France, is named Brooklyn, but the musical itself is Bklyn, sans roo.  One wouldn't want to see a musical of Winnie the Pooh sans Roo, and I'm not too enthused about Bklyn.

However, I twice saw A...My Name Is Alice WITH Roo Brown doing all that silly poetry, and had a ball.

So, the moral of the story is: Don't leave out the Roo.

[Panni]

U nat ghve to miss my walk this morning. ...I left the previous sentence just as I wrote it. Sometimes the fingers land on the wrong "home keys" when you touch type and all hell breaks loose. (What I was trying to say was that "I may have to miss" etc.). Anyway, I need to get ready for my notes meeting on my script, shower, drink a lot of coffee and jump start my brain. Au revoir, mes amis!

[Matt H.]

Friday Media Chick:

CD - THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM

DVD - THE NAME OF THE ROSE

DVR - last night's JOEY and WILL & GRACE
         yesterday's ONE LIFE TO LIVE
         MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY

[Matt H.]

I know I've never seen the real version of THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS. I remember watching a heavily edited version on the CBS LATE MOVIE in the 1970s and not caring much for it, but that's an unfair judgment based on an edited version chopped up by endless commercials. I'll look forward to seeing the real thing at some point in the near future.

[Jay]

Yesterday, Dear Reader JRand54 wrote:

DRJAY I will work on a video tape for you of a couple of Miss Allison's performances!  

Gosh, that'll be swell.  And awfully nice of you to do so!  Thank you!

[Jay]

I made the mistake of going into Tower Records earlier this week and the result of my sojourn fills my automobile's CD player:

Highlights from the PBS Series "Broadway--The American Musical"

A recital album of Miss Kiri Te Kanewa singing Puccini, Verdi, Mozart and others

Mr. Thomas Schippers conducting the New York Philharmonic in Mr. Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Mr. Modest Mussorgsky's (well, with a helping hand from Mr. Maurice Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition

Mr. Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (complete) from the Bayreuth Festival of 1966, conducted by Dr. Karl Bohm and starring Miss Birgit Nilsson and Mr. Wolfgang Windgassen

[Dan-in-Toronto]

DR Elmore,

I was fortunate to see Promenade at the Promenade in 1969. What I recall is how much the audience enjoyed the show - either killing themselves laughing or applauding wildly after an extraordinarily talented cast (Alice Pleyton, Shannon Bolin, Pierre Epstein, Gilbert Price and - singing the Chicken song - Florence Tarlow) - performed back-to-back showstoppers.

Do you consider Eddie Sauter among the finest orchestrators? I don't know a lot about orchestrating, but I know what I like* and can often identify orchestrators. I especially enjoy the sound of the albums to which Sauter's name is attached (Promenade, Milk and Honey, The Apple Tree and, especially, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman).


*Jerry Rothlein, my art history professor, would say: "I know a lot about art, but I don't know what I like."

[Noel]

I made the mistake of going into Tower Records earlier this week and the result of my sojourn fills my automobile's CD player:

Highlights from the PBS Series "Broadway--The American Musical"

That's what I have in my CD player.  Uncanny!

Next you'll be telling me we share the same Alma Mater.