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« Reply #180 on: May 26, 2005, 08:42:38 PM »
Ron knowing the care you have given your Miss Vickie, thank you for the compliment.

ArnoldMBrockman, thank you and it is good to have you back.

Matt H I know what you mean, at least for now, we can’t go through this again.
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« Reply #181 on: May 26, 2005, 08:53:40 PM »
Jane and Keith, I am so sorry to read about Bogie.  
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« Reply #182 on: May 26, 2005, 08:54:24 PM »
Quote from: Matt H. on May 26, 2005, 08:19:27 PM
DR Tomovoz, were you aware that this coming season of CARNIVALE! that you're anticipating will be the last one? HBO canceled the series after its second season.
I'm not surprised Matt as it does require a lot from the viewer. I hope there was a resolution of the story lines at the end of the second series. Too good for TV.
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« Reply #183 on: May 26, 2005, 08:56:16 PM »
DR Jane, it was mighty warm up here in Salem today as well...and at 8:53 pm it is still 83 degrees.

Since I have a 4 day weekend I will get a head start by popping into my dvd player my first Bollywood movie of the weekend....in honor of actor Sunil Dutt who passed away yesterday at age 75 I will watch his 1966 costume love story/action film AMRAPALI...the story of a court dancer and a warrior who fall in love in the 5th century B.C.


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« Reply #184 on: May 26, 2005, 08:57:47 PM »
Check out the After the Ball photos on broadwayworld.com.  They're nifty.
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« Reply #185 on: May 26, 2005, 10:05:14 PM »
Good Evening!

Back in Richmond.  Back at Steve's.

Good show.  Good drive.

Very tired.
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« Reply #186 on: May 26, 2005, 10:05:40 PM »
DR Jane - My thoughts are with you and Keith.
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« Reply #187 on: May 26, 2005, 10:06:21 PM »
And, now, I sleep.

Goodnight.

*Early morning tomorrow, so... Call me a Wussburger, why dontcha!
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« Reply #188 on: May 26, 2005, 10:42:54 PM »
WUSSBURGER!
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« Reply #189 on: May 26, 2005, 11:17:16 PM »
Oy, the burning of my eyes!  The air conditioning at the theater this evening was far from kind to my contact lenses.  If this is any indication of what I can expect, I may just have to do some nights blind (unless, of course, our director decides Charlie can wear glasses...).  My kingdom for some eye drops!
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« Reply #190 on: May 26, 2005, 11:18:48 PM »
Has Ann caught up?
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« Reply #191 on: May 26, 2005, 11:19:17 PM »
Our wonderful DR Ann, seeing that my eyes are in no condition to venture out, has gone herself to get some eye drops at the store!  I think I'll keep her around.
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« Reply #192 on: May 26, 2005, 11:41:10 PM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on May 26, 2005, 04:47:45 PM
DRGeorge, it's a great play, maybe not so good as TARTUFFE on hypocrisy, but a hard one to pull off; Isabella's got to be sensuous beneath that chaste exterior, otherwise the plot makes little sense.

I just got back and it was a great production...great actors, great set, pretty good costumes.  I read the Director's Notes in the program (reprinted on their website).  Here's a couple of paragraphs explaining what they did:

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....Most people make the mistake of thinking of MEASURE FOR MEASURE as a standard "good triumphs over evil" story. It seems, under our standard template, as if that's what the story is trying to be. It is easy to mistake the Duke for "the Good Guy," since he is so full of pleasant and profound aphorisms. Angelo is quickly identifiable as an "Arch-Villain" and Isabella as the "Virtuous Victim." Unfortunately, we must make all manner of excuses to justify their behavior in the roles they seem to want to play. That's a problem.

We have chosen to take a different tack and believe we have discovered something much more consistent and compelling. We propose that the play is really a black satire on the Puritanism that threatened to destroy the lusty, rowdy lifestyle of Elizabethan England. The Duke, instead of being "The Good Guy", is an echo of the Puritan God that would create men and women with irresistible desires, make laws against succumbing to those desires, threaten them with eternal torment for doing so, then playing the kindly father figure when he forgives them. Angelo and Isabella, instead of being "evil" vs. "good", are simply human, both trying desperately to find spiritual purity through the denial of their physical selves, but discovering through each other the "monsters," "beasts," and "cowards" that lie within us all....

Scot Whitney

Since I've never seen the show before, I can't really judge how effective their version is compared to a more "traditional" version.  I did enjoy it (even with only getting about three hours of sleep this morning ::)).
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« Reply #193 on: May 26, 2005, 11:44:51 PM »
Quote from: Jane on May 26, 2005, 05:33:01 PM
I haven’t had the heart lately to talk.  Tuesday we said goodbye to our sweet Bogie.  Too many losses in too short of a time and the last two were just such very special pets.

I'm very sad to hear about your Bogie. :'(
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« Reply #194 on: May 26, 2005, 11:47:33 PM »
Quote from: Matt H. on May 26, 2005, 08:12:52 PM
She's [Joan Rivers] [/i] got some movie credits, too, but that doesn't make her qualified to ask intelligent questions about movies or the theater.

True, very true. ::)
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« Reply #195 on: May 26, 2005, 11:49:05 PM »
Quote from: bk on May 26, 2005, 08:05:53 PM
I think it will be Bamboo this evening.  



Ahhh, if I had a dollar for every time I have heard that.........




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« Reply #196 on: May 26, 2005, 11:51:47 PM »
Well!   It looks like the old gang is here!
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« Reply #197 on: May 26, 2005, 11:54:22 PM »
Quote from: Jed on May 26, 2005, 11:19:17 PM
Our wonderful DR Ann, seeing that my eyes are in no condition to venture out, has gone herself to get some eye drops at the store!  I think I'll keep her around.


I hope so, Jed, since it is her apartment!
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« Reply #198 on: May 26, 2005, 11:54:33 PM »
Hello NW friends.  I cot up with some ealier posts today.  I guess caught differs from coat and court too.
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« Reply #199 on: May 26, 2005, 11:55:28 PM »
The old bamboo.
Chitty Chitty.
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« Reply #200 on: May 26, 2005, 11:56:21 PM »
TCB here to bamboozel us again.
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« Reply #201 on: May 26, 2005, 11:56:40 PM »
And one for Mahler.
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« Reply #202 on: May 26, 2005, 11:57:36 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on May 26, 2005, 11:54:33 PM
Hello NW friends.  I cot up with some ealier posts today.  I guess caught differs from coat and court too.

Don't be silly, Tomovoz, it is too warm here to wear a court.
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