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THE BLEARY/BLURRY SYNDROME
« on: January 26, 2017, 12:17:25 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were bleary/blurry, and now it is time for you to post until the bleary/blurry cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2017, 12:20:22 AM »

And the word of the day is: OMPHALOSKEPSIS!

Smoke on your pipe and put that in.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2017, 12:22:15 AM »

First post after BK!
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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2017, 12:27:21 AM »

T.O.D.


WHAT'S UP DOC?
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2017, 02:54:08 AM »

First in the morning and first after BK and TCB!
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2017, 02:54:39 AM »

TOD:  I'd say my favorite is WHAT'S UP DOC, too.
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Re: THE BLEARY/BLURRY SYNDROME
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2017, 05:30:24 AM »

Good morning, all.
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Re: THE BLEARY/BLURRY SYNDROME
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2017, 05:31:31 AM »

I keep thinking this is Friday.  Well, it's not.  It's Thursday.  Maybe if I say it a few more times....
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2017, 05:32:19 AM »

While clicking my heels together, of course...
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2017, 05:47:42 AM »

TOD:

The Last Picture Show
What's Up, Doc?
Paper Moon
Targets

They All Laughed:  I went to it the first time (Mann Westwood?) and was head over heels crazy about it.  I dragged a friend to it.  Watching it with my friend, I sat there wondering why it only seemed half as funny and romantically interesting as before.  Thirty years later I tried it again, and could only view it with clinical interest, never once being swept up by it.

Texasville:  I love that McMurtry wrote it for him to film, and having most of the cast of Picture Show involved years later is a rare treat.  But I only read and saw it once about fifteen years ago, and need to return to it.

It's funny about Bogdanovich.  The movies went south so fast, and yet I've always considered him one of my Hollywood heroes... of sorts.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2017, 05:56:30 AM »

I'll bet I'm the only one here who has made the pilgrimage to Archer City, Texas.  :)

On one of my trips to my company's headquarters in Dallas while still gainfully employed, I took a day to drive the three hours up there to visit Larry McMurtry's (then)-four bookstores.  I bought just a few things, and didn't get to run into Larry, but being there was a wonderful and otherworldly experience.  I must dig out my photographic evidence.
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2017, 05:58:14 AM »

Good morning, all!
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2017, 05:59:21 AM »

I hope it's the weather because I'm sleeping poorly and nothing seems to be helping this leg these days.
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2017, 06:00:18 AM »

I will spend a lot of the morning doing laundry.  i need to wash all the towels in the bathroom that got covered in dust from the work on the ceiling this week.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2017, 06:02:13 AM »

I'm waiting on assignments from Rob Berman, so I can work on Guys & Dolls today.  I've promised to turn over a lot of Act One to my collaborator Jason next week.

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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2017, 06:02:45 AM »

DR TCB, I hope you can resolve your computer issues today.
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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2017, 06:05:24 AM »

DR vixmom, I am sorry to hear bad news about the implants.   A mutual friend of mine and DR Ginny had implant work in the mid-1970s and they were wonderful.,  I even went to see her dentist in Dayton, but the cost was more than I could afford at the time.
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« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2017, 06:05:46 AM »

Laundry!

And coffee.
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« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2017, 06:10:08 AM »

Well, since I checked my email 30 minutes ago, Rob has sent me the entire "Great Indoors" number.  It looks good.
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« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2017, 07:10:42 AM »

Hmm . . . No posts in an hour?
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« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2017, 07:11:36 AM »

I've mopped the bathroom and kitchen, and everything's in the washers.  I need a nap.
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« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2017, 07:30:14 AM »

I've mopped the bathroom and kitchen, and everything's in the washers.  I need a nap.

I'm getting exhausted just from knowing how hard you've worked so far today.  You've earned that nap.
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« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2017, 07:47:28 AM »

Good morning, all.
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« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2017, 07:48:19 AM »

I'll bet I'm the only one here who has made the pilgrimage to Archer City, Texas.  :)

On one of my trips to my company's headquarters in Dallas while still gainfully employed, I took a day to drive the three hours up there to visit Larry McMurtry's (then)-four bookstores.  I bought just a few things, and didn't get to run into Larry, but being there was a wonderful and otherworldly experience.  I must dig out my photographic evidence.

I have. It was a great experience.
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« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2017, 07:52:27 AM »

My friend Hillary came to town and we drove up to Archer City for a day of used book shopping. In the third store, there was McMurtry shelving books. There had been signs everywhere saying don't ask for autographs and he gave me a withering look when I noticed him, but I still asked him if he had any books by Zora Neale Hurston and Dawn Powell. He became more polite at that point, answered the question by pointing me in the direction of each and went back to work.
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« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2017, 07:54:21 AM »

We then went to the Archer City Dairy Queen, which he wrote about so well in Texasville. It was a monument to McMurtry, perhaps the only DQ devoted to the works of a writer.
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« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2017, 07:56:02 AM »

TOD:

Last Picture Show
Paper Moon
What's Up, Doc?
At Long Last Love

I do enjoy parts of Daisy Miller, They All Laughed and Texasville. 
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« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2017, 07:56:23 AM »

Don't ask me for my autograph!  Move on!
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« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2017, 07:56:53 AM »

Continued vibes for DR GEORGE.

Last night DR JANE was in bed with George Clooney and Julia Roberts.  I expect them to talk about it on TMZ today.
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« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2017, 07:58:20 AM »

DR JohnG, I disagree with you about the Garland footage of Annie Get Your Gun.  I think she's dreadful because we all know she's too intelligent to play the role.  The best Annies for the musical are performers not necessarily known for their intelligence.

I thought Betty Hutton was a good choice, but the film is not very good, and a lot of those MGM orchestrations sound  wrong to me, as though someone thinking he or she was smarter than Irving Berlin decided to re-harmonize the songs.
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