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[vixmom]

No link to said interview.  Their website is in the process of being reconstructed.

I tried a couple of searches for it, that explains why I had no luck, I could only find a link to a 2004 issue

[vixmom]

DANCE TIME!!!!!

[Jrand73]

Oh.....hmmmm.....maybe someday, DR CP.  I understand all about Under Construction.

[Jrand73]

I'm getting dizzy.

[bk]

When I was but a wee sprig of a twig of a tad of a lad of a youth, it was often said that I resembled the painting of Blue Boy.  

SELTZER!

When did it become unpopular with the populace to call seltzer SELTZER?  Sparkling water just doesn't do it, does it.  I like SELTZER!

[Jane]

Sorry DR Jane but not everyone has a citrus tree in their yard down here.  In fact, right now, we have no fruit trees of any kind.  I think I shall be getting one of those dwarf lemon trees.  I’ll order it tonight.

Gotta run for the bus—at least while I still have a bus to run to.  Oy.  I haven’t heard anything about what has been decided but I bet we will lose it.

LOL.   Growing up in Los Angeles it seemed almost everyone had a lemon tree.  We didn't   but enough people around us did.

Good vibes on the bus situation!

[William F. Orr]

Joe has had for many years three signed Russ Elliot prints.  This is one of them.


Alas, we have put up no pictures in the new house yet, so they are still boxed.  

[Matt H.]

RE MONK AND MINDY, it was a slip of the typing finger, but anything would have to be better than that show, though it certainly pleased a lot of people in its day. Just not me.

[Jrand73]

Thanks for the paintings, DRSWW.  I am always awed in the presence of ART.  My favorite museums are The National Gallery in DC and the Guggenheim!

DRJOEY is correct.  The IMA is closed - most of the times I have been there, you can't see the paintings because people stand in front of them talking to each and ignoring the art.

[bk]

I did watch Wild Guitar.  Terrible movie, but some lovely shots of early sixties LA.  The transfer is so fuzzy that it's hard to tell what's playing at the Egyptian, although I finally figured out it was Sweet Bird of Youth.  I just wished they'd turned the camera around and shot Pickwick Books.  There's a nice semi-shot of Diamond Jim's though.

[bk]

I made two egg and cheese burritos.  Not too fattening, very low fat grams, and quite yummilicious.  That way, if dinner does happen, I can still eat a little something later.

[JMK]

DANCE TIME!!!!!

Oy--it's all clear now.  She's not sleeping, she's comatose from the centrifugal force.

[MBarnum]

I so wish I were at home on my couch taking a nap! I am very SLEEPY!

[Stuart]

One room has, on the wall facing you as you enter, Jushua Reynolds' Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse

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Nice speech, Eve.  I wouldn't worry so much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

[Matt H.]

My point exacty.  Fortunately we do have a working one at the moment and we will allow her to use it, but we resent the fact that the teaher just assumes that this is something everyone will have.

If you are THIS bothered by the assignment (and I'm not saying I agree with it either), have you gone and questioned the teacher about it, getting the insight of his/her educational objectives behind such an assignment and possible alternatives for those who are not fortunate enough to have sophisticated equipment to use? I know in my own case, I never gave an assignment I couldn't justify for its educational intention and content.

As for movies in the classroom, I certainly showed them once VCRs and TVs in the room became available, but again, they were never time wasters or fillers in place of lessons. We occasionally saw movies based on literary works we had read. We discussed the changes in the printed work and the story on the screen. I also used film clips to teach point of view, the various types of irony, and other terms we used in literature discussion. (It was also a sneaky way of introducing them to film classics in small chunks.)

[Jane]

Bruce the CD would be great-thanks.  I’m finally going to have a CD player in my car.  I’m so excited.

Rodzinski I’’m relieved to say we didn’t have any children in the audience for Sin City.  

Matt H,  do you avoid all movies with excessive violence?

Joey welcome back to the land of living.  Continued good health vibes!

[bk]

Jane, e me your address.

[William F. Orr]

Nice speech, Eve.  I wouldn't worry so much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

ROTFL

[William F. Orr]

And wouldn't we all love to have seen Mrs. Siddons as Margo Channing?

[Matt H.]

Matt H,  do you avoid all movies with excessive violence?

Yes, I do. I learned my lesson with PULP FICTION. I was so sickened by the violence in that movie (I was literally nauseous when I walked out of the theater) that I now read reviews very carefully before venturing out into a theater.

(As I've said here before, I am such a gullible viewer that I believe EVERYTHING I see as real, so I can't sit there and tell myself it's just a movie. It doesn't work for me that way.)

I avoided KILL BILL Vol. 1 for the very same reason even though the reviews said the violence was so overplayed as to be funny. It wouldn't have been for me.

[Stuart]

And wouldn't we all love to have seen Mrs. Siddons as Margo Channing?

Well, she looks like she'd burn down a plantation....

[Jrand73]

That's what television is, my dear, nothing BUT auditions!

[vixmom]

DANCE TIME!!!!!

Is this a  polka they are dancing to?

[MBarnum]

DR Matth, I feel pretty much the same way as far as movie violence goes. It is quite often just too graphic for my tastes.

I am not one who needs "realism" in my movies...so when a character is shot, I am able to still believe what is happening on the screen even when there is no blood and brain matter flying about! LOL!

[vixmom]

DR Matth, I feel pretty much the same way as far as movie violence goes. It is quite often just too graphic for my tastes.

I am not one who needs "realism" in my movies...so when a character is shot, I am able to still believe what is happening on the screen even when there is no blood and brain matter flying about! LOL!

I agree,  If Quentin Taratino had been directing LOTR, the Fellowship would have been drowning in gore and guts on those battlefields and cursing up a storm.  

I find the overuse of "language" and gore in the name of realism, is terribly distracting and detrimental to the story that is supposedly being told.

[Charles Pogue]

Well, I'm very happy.  My Reds came back from a six to four deficeit in the bottom of the ninth with back-to-back home runs to win their opener, seven to six against the New York Mets.

[Kerry]

I like watermelon, but cantaloupe and honeydew are melons from the devil.  I do not like to ball melons, and I don't like melonballs.  I will not eat them on a boat; I will not eat them with a goat.

[George]

Glad you're feeling better Joey, but actually, it's a picture of Louis' Waffle Stove!

I don't get it. You'll have to explain it to me then I will need to do penance for not knowing something that should be common knowledge.

Actually, it's a Sunday in the Park With George reference...you'll understand when you watch it!

Speaking of SITPWG, another illustrator that I absolutely love is Bill Nelson.  I've only seen his work in a book about his work called "Finishing the Hat:  The Illustrations of Bill Nelson[/b]" (below is another of his pictures...the book is out of print).  He designed some magazine and album covers and posters, such as Sweeney Todd and Angels in America for some regional productions.  He's done a lot more than albums and magazines and posters, but those are what I remember.

[George]

The detail in Bill Nelson's work is absolutely incredible!

[Matt H.]

I finished BELLS ARE RINGING this afternoon (all the extras, too; I had never seen Dean Martin's cut number. One of Jule Styne's less memorable songs).

Dean Martin was perfect casting as Jeff Moss, but honestly, is there a worse example of lip-syncing by a major star than Dean's in "I Met a Girl"? I mean, there are times when we hear his voice on the soundtrack, and he's not even moving his lips. Often he comes in after the voice has begun singing, and it's clear he's not sure of the words either. Just terrible.

Susan Hayward's "I'll Plant My Own Tree" isn't great either, but since Eileen Wilson sang the song on the soundtrack album but Margaret Whiting dubbed her for the actual movie, I wonder which track Susan was lip-synching to. That might be why her miming isn't very good. She's much better lip-synching in other films, whether it's her voice or someone else's.