Topic: THE MOTHER OF ALL FATHER'S DAYS (Read 5149 times)

John G. · « **Reply #120 on:** June 18, 2017, 05:12:42 PM »

Five!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #121 on:** June 18, 2017, 05:24:49 PM »

Has anyone seen this BBC series "My Mother and Other Strangers" that's currently running on PBS? Quite moving and nostalgic.

John G. · « **Reply #122 on:** June 18, 2017, 06:05:58 PM »

Watching Mississippi, a sort of Show Boat ripoff that Rodgers and Hart wrote. It's got W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett. The music is good, the script is lame, and W.C. Fields steals every scene he's in.

John G. · « **Reply #123 on:** June 18, 2017, 06:37:13 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on June 18, 2017, 05:24:49 PM

Has anyone seen this BBC series "My Mother and Other Strangers" that's currently running on PBS? Quite moving and nostalgic.

Four or five episodes are available online. I wish I had the time to watch. Sounds good.

John G. · « **Reply #124 on:** June 18, 2017, 06:43:01 PM »

I'm a quarter of the way into 4321. It's not the book I expected at all. It's four involving stories that stem from the same starting point. All of the boys are named Archie Ferguson, but the four Archies grow up in vastly different ways. And once or twice, the stories have shared some common ground with the Kritzer novels.

bk · « **Reply #125 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:02:26 PM »

The Tchaikovsky piano concert no. 1 - hard not to know THAT music - very famous and very good. Now it's a Schumann cello concerto - I'm not shutting anything off even if it's not for me - part of my education.

Ginny · « **Reply #126 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:03:13 PM »

So, Richard and I are sitting in the family room watching an NCIS rerun and I'm casting on to knit a baby blanket for my cousin and his wife (due in December). I'm at about stitch 126 of 132 and, from somewhere outside - KABLOOEY! - and our power went out. Duke Energy says 1440 households are out and they estimate it'll be 1:45am before service resumes. Might be an early night for us...

bk · « **Reply #127 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:06:57 PM »

I actually tried watching a movie and immediately fell asleep for forty minutes - I didn't need the nap so I shut the movie off.

Ginny · « **Reply #128 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:10:17 PM »

Signing off to preserve my cell phone battery...bye for now!

John G. · « **Reply #129 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:49:05 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on June 18, 2017, 07:03:13 PM

So, Richard and I are sitting in the family room watching an NCIS rerun and I'm casting on to knit a baby blanket for my cousin and his wife (due in December). I'm at about stitch 126 of 132 and, from somewhere outside - KABLOOEY! - and our power went out. Duke Energy says 1440 households are out and they estimate it'll be 1:45am before service resumes. Might be an early night for us...

Do you know the cause?

FJL · « **Reply #130 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:52:07 PM »

Hope all gets resolved quickly for Ginny!

John G. · « **Reply #131 on:** June 18, 2017, 07:52:22 PM »

Started watching watching the Ava Gardner version of Show Boat, the version I like to call Show Bloat, because it's so over stuffed. Still, I like a lot of it, and Gardner is the best thing in the movie.

If you know the score, some of the musical queues are odd, such as "Mis'ry's Comin' Around" for when Julie and Steve kiss. It's more appropriate when they use it for when Julie leaves the boat.

bk · « **Reply #132 on:** June 18, 2017, 08:04:02 PM »

Moved on to music I know I'd like - currently the Prokofiev third piano concerto - brilliant.

bk · « **Reply #133 on:** June 18, 2017, 08:04:36 PM »

How can it be eight o'clock already?

bk · « **Reply #134 on:** June 18, 2017, 08:30:12 PM »

Franck's Symphony in D - mono but a wonderful performance.

John G. · « **Reply #135 on:** June 18, 2017, 08:34:35 PM »

Got to be at a meeting at 7:30 a.m. (Why do these people do this stuff?)

John G. · « **Reply #136 on:** June 18, 2017, 08:34:45 PM »

That means, good night, all.

Catherine · « **Reply #137 on:** June 18, 2017, 08:44:38 PM »

Hello all !!!

Good night all!!!

bk · « **Reply #138 on:** June 18, 2017, 09:38:24 PM »

Listening to a fine French composer named Bondeville - just two selections by him but they're lovely.

bk · « **Reply #139 on:** June 18, 2017, 09:49:34 PM »

One of the Bondeville things is two excerpts from an opera of Madame Bovary - makes me want to hear the entire thing.

bk · « **Reply #140 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:04:47 PM »

Opera never released on CD - there seems to be one complete recording on LP - but it's actually hard to tell if it's complete - it may just be excerpts since it's on one LP.

TCB · « **Reply #141 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:15:20 PM »

Good evening!

TCB · « **Reply #142 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:16:19 PM »

Continued health vibes to DR Jrand!!

TCB · « **Reply #143 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:17:26 PM »

Loved the interns parody, Fred.

TCB · « **Reply #144 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:19:58 PM »

Quote from: Jane on June 18, 2017, 07:57:36 AM

Quote from: TCB on June 18, 2017, 12:16:22 AM
I would like to buy the Nathan Lane version of THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, but it is $36.00 on Amazon.

I only saw the original movie. Having seen you act, I greatly suspect you gave a better performance. We enjoyed a wonderful production at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival.

Thank you, Jane.

bk · « **Reply #145 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:22:34 PM »

Back to the mono Ravel - who so clearly was an influence on my close personal friend, Mr. Stephen Sondheim.

bk · « **Reply #146 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:22:44 PM »

Page five? Really?

bk · « **Reply #147 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:24:13 PM »

The movie I tried to watch was The Condemned of Altona - subtitled and in Eyetalian, which is not what I wanted - it's mostly American stars - but it's never been on home video so one takes what one can get. What's interesting about the film is the score - Shostakovich's eleventh symphony is used as the score and it's very effective.

bk · « **Reply #148 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:24:38 PM »

Five hours or more on one page. What is the world coming to?

bk · « **Reply #149 on:** June 18, 2017, 10:25:10 PM »

And yet no amount of postings gets us to page six.

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