Topic: UNWIELDY (Read 18508 times)

bk · « **Reply #60 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:52:05 AM »

The movie musical I would love to have seen is The Most Happy Fella as directed by Francis Ford Coppola at the height of his powers. He couldn't do it now - there is no director working today who could do it now and pull it off, but back then it would have been fascinating.

bk · « **Reply #61 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:52:30 AM »

Holy moley on rye - page three. How unwieldy.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #62 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:57:48 AM »

Good Noon! -At least here on the East Coast...

Well, "moral" dilemna solved - the lunch was cancelled due to snow. It's started falling again kind of heavily - even though the Winter Storm Warning was called off...

So, now I must get outside and clear off my car, and start the slow, cautious drive into town. The radio reports say the roads are more or less clear. It's the "less" I'm worried about.

I'll be bringing my iBook with me to the theatre, so maybe I'll be able to check in between shows.

Laters...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #63 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:58:31 AM »

Oh... And I think we may have covered this before, but...

What is the most amount of snow you've ever seen/experienced in person?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #64 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:58:53 AM »

So sad to be all alone in the world..

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #65 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:59:26 AM »

OH! Hi, JRand!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #66 on:** January 30, 2005, 08:59:51 AM »

...And now that it's just you and me...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #67 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:00:35 AM »

OK...

This time, for real, I'm going...

Ciao for niao!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #68 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:00:36 AM »

Hello DR JOSE!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #69 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:01:20 AM »

Be careful driving into town. Watch out for the other guy!

I think MR BK it is Daisy Mae's design that you appreciate more so than the costume.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #70 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:02:05 AM »

OH.. And just heard on the radio that the DGA awarded Clint Eastwood Best Director.

-That may be old news from yesterday or the day before...Or not...

Wasn't I going somewhere???

bk · « **Reply #71 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:03:03 AM »

Jane was here, but she scurried off, perhaps to eat some breakfast. I was here, but I was feeling unwieldy.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #72 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:03:55 AM »

Actually MATTH - I don't think I would want to see any of the musicals TV'ized and broken up into little chunks with lead into commercial climaxes every 12 minutes....on top of everything else....

But a MOVIE musical of PROMISES PROMISES directed by hmmmmm....I don't know.....maybe Bruce Kimmel....

bk · « **Reply #73 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:03:55 AM »

Good for Clint. Hopefully, that will translate into an Oscar as well.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #74 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:04:50 AM »

Why do some of these movie critics on these two-bit television programs talk about movies TODAY as if no movies were made before 1990?

bk · « **Reply #75 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:06:25 AM »

Because they are idiots?

bk · « **Reply #76 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:06:47 AM »

Doesn't Jane have a new shower door?

bk · « **Reply #77 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:07:33 AM »

The wind seems to have left us and in so doing left clear blue skies. It looks very beautiful out my window.

Jane · « **Reply #78 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:07:51 AM »

Td I want updated pictures of Dixie Bell as she grows. She looks more adult in the last photo. Thank you.

Jose happy, healthy birthday to your Dad.

La Jolie Femme & CP I’m a big believer in physical therapy and feel it should be done along with any other treatment.

Good health vibes to Colin!

Jane · « **Reply #79 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:11:24 AM »

elmore please give Penny a hug and Good New Home Vibes from me.

bk · « **Reply #80 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:11:33 AM »

I once had a physical therapist named Erna, a German lady with incredibly strong thumbs. That was after the accident where my car was broadsided on the freeway. I went to her for about six weeks. I can STILL feel those steel thumbs going up my back.

Jane · « **Reply #81 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:13:46 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on January 30, 2005, 08:58:31 AM

What is the most amount of snow you've ever seen/experienced in person?

24 inches of snow, which arrived within 24 hours. I was in Massachusetts and Keith was working in Pennsylvania.

bk · « **Reply #82 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:28:15 AM »

That's a lot of snow.

bk · « **Reply #83 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:28:36 AM »

Some would say that that much snow is - unwieldy.

Matt H. · « **Reply #84 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:32:34 AM »

I don't like musicals broken up into small segments for TV viewing either, but there are ways around that. Have a bunch of ads centralized before and after and at only a few commercial intervals during the show. It's certainly been done with other shows (with limited commercial interruption, as they say).

Also, the subsequent DVD will play uninterrupted - as I saw recently with the TV-BYE BYE BIRDIE. Plays much better than it did on ABC. Still don't like Jason Alexander (and that wig with its floppy curl over his forehead; who's stupid idea was that?), but it's an enjoyable version of the show and much more faithful to the show's source material than the 1963 film.

bk · « **Reply #85 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:37:31 AM »

I pretty much detest the Alexander version of Biridie, even though, as MattH states, it is more faithful to the show itself. What it doesn't have and can't have these days, is Paul Lynde, Dick van Dyke (well, Hugh Jackman could do it) and a Birdie who is plausible, like Jesse Pearson (and NOT like Dick Gautier or Marc Kudisch).

bk · « **Reply #86 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:38:20 AM »

I have shaved, and now I will shower, and then, at some point soon, I shall mosey on over to the City of Culver.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #87 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:43:16 AM »

On costuming, I think Milo Anderson did a marvelous job dressing Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #88 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:46:20 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on January 30, 2005, 09:04:50 AM

Why do some of these movie critics on these two-bit television programs talk about movies TODAY as if no movies were made before 1990?

Because they haven't seen a film made before 1990?

I once was told of a friend auditioning with a well-known Cole Porter song for a director-writer who had acted in the 1950s and 60s. After the song, the director said something like "Lovely! Who wrote that?" All right, he's also a well-know idiot!

I've read the screenplay draft for THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, BK. Perhaps it's just as well it didn't get made. If memory serves, Rosabella and the bus leave and Tony has to chase them down. The screenwriter had also decided there were too many songs and replaced the slighter ones with his own dialogue

PROMISES, PROMISES: Dear Friend BK should have played the role in the film during the 70s.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #89 on:** January 30, 2005, 09:55:49 AM »

Interesting thing, the word "unwieldy."

I can find the word "wield" in the dictionary. It means "to deal with successfully," or "to handle," and even "to exert one's authority."

"Wieldy" is in the dictionary. It means "capable of being wielded."

"Unwieldy" is in the dictionary. It means "not easily handled, managed, or used.

"Unwield" is NOT in the dictionary. I'd think it would be, given the other words, but "unwield" is not there.

We thus cannot say things like "Unwield that wench, you callous knave!" This, in spite of the fact that most wenches are, when accosted by callous knaves, stuggling to escape and quite unwieldy.

Thus endeth my lecture on the English language for today.

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