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« Reply #30 on: June 15, 2005, 05:44:18 AM »

I am sure there are lots of films that would fall into this category of the TOD, but one that comes to mind is the movie ARNOLD.

It still has a great title song, an interesting premise (a young woman marries an older man who happens to be dead and then people around her start to die in stange ways.)  A reasonable good cast, Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lancaster, Shani Wallis, Victor Buono, John McGiver, Farley Granger, Bernard Foz, Jamie Farr. BUT it just didn't work for me. It was a major diappointment for me.
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« Reply #31 on: June 15, 2005, 05:45:41 AM »

Um...er...ah...er...DYSPEPSIA--it ain't diet.
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« Reply #32 on: June 15, 2005, 06:58:46 AM »

Just read that actors Lon McCallister and Robert Clarke both passed away June 11.
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« Reply #33 on: June 15, 2005, 07:31:55 AM »

I heard on NPR this morning that composer David Diamond passed away yesterday
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« Reply #34 on: June 15, 2005, 07:32:45 AM »

dear elmore! I hope thatyour surgey was NOT a dud!!  


~~~VIBES ~~~~~

for good news at the surgeons tomorrow!!!
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« Reply #35 on: June 15, 2005, 07:33:31 AM »

~~~~CONTINUED VIBES FOR DR JED LIBRARIAN JOB WISE~~~~
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« Reply #36 on: June 15, 2005, 07:49:16 AM »

I just heard that there was Tsaumi warning for the whole west coast yesterday... YIKES!!! Fortunately it was a false alarm.....

Did any of our west coast Kimlets get all shook up yesterday?
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« Reply #37 on: June 15, 2005, 07:52:33 AM »

Yesterday I bought  my Daddy center orchestra tickets for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels  for the July 27 matinee performance, as a Father's Day present.... and I got them at a discount... does that mean that all the  "A list" players are going to be in the Hamptons instead of on the stage?

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« Reply #38 on: June 15, 2005, 07:53:11 AM »

 A frenzy unto myself again.....
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« Reply #39 on: June 15, 2005, 07:53:46 AM »

No wonder I am nearly up to 2300 posts!!
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« Reply #40 on: June 15, 2005, 08:03:31 AM »

I have to shame-facedly admit that I LOVED VALLEY OF THE DOLLS when it first came out and not because of its camp value. I knew it wasn't the book (which I had read and re-read and knew by heart), but I thought it was a wonderful drama with terrific songs and memorable performances.

Years later, I looked at the lousy art direction, the terrible acting (either overbaked ham or non-existant), and the shoddy way it was all put together and wonder why I ever paid to see it so many times.

I can enjoy it now as a campy comedy (still like some of the songs), but boy is it a lousy film.
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« Reply #41 on: June 15, 2005, 08:07:05 AM »

When I read about bk's busy days, I am so very grateful to have the show behind me and have some leisurely days to sit, read, and relax.

If ONLY it wasn't so bloomin' hot. We've had four straight days of 90+ degree weather. Last year, I didn't even turn on my central air conditioning until July 8th. This year, it came on near the end of May!
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« Reply #42 on: June 15, 2005, 08:10:42 AM »

Today, viewing-wise, I'm looking forward to

1. NIGHTMARE ALLEY
2. RENO 911! season premiere (on the DVR)
3. some STAR TREK episodes on DVD.
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« Reply #43 on: June 15, 2005, 08:11:47 AM »

I also have the last disc in the ANGEL Season 2 set to finish. These are the episodes that bring the memorable character of Fred into the story, so I'm anxious to see how she's worked into the mix.
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« Reply #44 on: June 15, 2005, 08:15:48 AM »

No shaking here, but they did evacuate some of the Oregon coastal towns yesterday...a brief panic.

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« Reply #45 on: June 15, 2005, 08:19:02 AM »

BK, I checked out that CLASSIC MUSICALS dvd pack...some fun titles! When you said Martha Tilton, I knew I needed to take a look-see.

Here is a list of the films in this pack (which you can get as low as $19.00!)

1947 Fabulous Dorseys, The Tommy Dorsey Jimmy Dorsey Paul Whiteman

1947 Calendar Girl Jane Frazee William Marshall Victor McLaglen

1941 Sunny Anna Neagle Ray Bolger Edward Everett Horton

1944 Swing Hostess Martha Tilton Iris Adrian Charles Collins

1930 Dixiana Bebe Daniels Bert Wheeler Robert Wolsey
 
1934 Palooka Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Stuart Erwin

1929 Glorifying the American Girl Eddie Cantor Rudy Vallee Noah Beery Jr.

1933 Check and Double Check Duke Ellington Freeman F Gosden Charles J Correll

1939 Paradise in Harlem Mamie Smith Frank L Wilson Norman Astwood

1946 Duke is Tops, The Lena Horne Ralph Cooper Laurence Criney

1947 Reet, Petite and Gone Louis Jordan June Richmond Milton Wood

1948 Killer Diller Nat King Cole Johnny Miller Oscar Moore

1945 Delightfully Dangerous Jane Powell Ralph Bellamy Arthur Treacher

1942 Private Buckaroo Andrews Sisters Shemp Howard Donald O'Connor

1943 Stage Door Canteen Kenny Baker Tallulah Bankhead Edgar Bergen

1943 Career Girl Frances Langford Edward Norris Iris Adrian

1941 Second Chorus Fred Astaire Paulette Goddard Artie Shaw

1944 Trocadero Rosemary Lane Johnny Downs Ralph Morgan

1946 People Are Funny Jack Haley Rudy Valee Art Linkletter

1946 Doll Face Dennis O'Keefe Perry Como Vivian Blaine
 
1929 Great Gabbo, The Eric Von Stroheim Betty Compson Donald Douglas

1936 Dancing Pirate, The Frank Morgan Charles Collins Steffi Duna

1941 Road Show Adolph Menjou Carole Landis John Hubbard

1943 Hi Diddle Diddle Adolphe Menjou Martha Scott Dennis O'Keefe

1956 Rock, Rock, Rock Tuesday Weld Chuck Berry Valerie Harper

1934 King Kelly of the USA Edgar Kennedy Guy Robertson Irene Ware

1955 Rock N' Roll Revue Duke Ellington Nat King Cole Lionel Hampton

1955 Rhythm and Blues Revue Nat King Cole Sarah Vaughn Count Basie

1946 Till the Clouds Roll By Judy Garland Frank Sinatra Dinah Shore

1941 All-American Co-Ed Johnny Downs Frances Langford Noah Beery Jr.

1947 Hi Di Ho Cab Calloway Ida James Jeni Le Gon

1946 Breakfast in Hollywood Bonita Granville Beulah Bondi Zasu Pitts

Soundies Festival Ethel Waters Eddy Green Dusty Fletcher

Soundies Cavalcade Lena Horne Teddy Wilson Dusty Fletcher

1930 Reaching For The Moon Douglas Fairbanks Bebe Daniels Edward Everett Horton

1951 Mr Imperium Lana Turner Ezio Pinza Debbie Reynolds

1951 Royal Wedding Fred Astaire Jane Powell Peter Lawford

1957 Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Van Johnson Jim Backus Claude Rains

1962 Wild Guitar Arch Hall Jr. Nancy Czar Arch Hall Sr.

1941 Murder With Music Nellie Hill Alston Bob Dillard

1952 Jack And The Beanstalk Bud Abbott Lou Costello Buddy Baer

1946 Road To Hollywood, The Bing Crosby Bud Pollard Marion Sayers

1936 Big Show, The Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Kay Hughes

1962 Black Tights Cyd Charisse Maurice Chevalier Moira Shearer

1941 Fiesta Anne Ayars Jorge Negrete Armida

1941 Let's Go Collegiate Gale Storm Frankie Darro Marcia Mae Jones

1940 Up in the Air Frankie Darro Marjorie Reynolds Mantan Moreland

1944 Minstrel Man Gladys George Benny Fields Alan Dinehart

1937 Rhythm in the Clouds Patricia Ellis Warren Hull William Newell

1936 Sitting on the Moon Grace Bradley Roger Pryor William Newell
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« Reply #46 on: June 15, 2005, 08:29:46 AM »

No wonder I am nearly up to 2300 posts!!

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« Reply #47 on: June 15, 2005, 08:32:07 AM »

Jane Frazee?

Did someone mention "Jane Frazee"?

My!

Why I haven't heard Jane Frazee's name in many, many moons.....
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« Reply #48 on: June 15, 2005, 08:35:06 AM »

Thanks for the list, DR MBarnum. I was surprised to see MR. IMPERIUM there. I had no idea it was public domain.
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« Reply #49 on: June 15, 2005, 08:37:20 AM »

A question for you musical theater fans out there:


Wasn't there a cast album for the off-Broadway musical version of JOHNNY GUITAR? I just checked on Amazon, and they don't list it, but I could have sworn there was one at some point. I know the show had a disappointing run, but from what I understood, the score was pretty good (though not campy at all like the book scenes).

Does anyone know about the show or have the cast recording?
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« Reply #50 on: June 15, 2005, 08:45:02 AM »

Yes, there was a cast recording of Johnny Guitar. I don't have it, but I do have the 4 (I believe) song CD that was made before the full cast recording. Perhaps it didn't sell well and was shelved (the full recording). I know that it was available at Footlight and I saw it at a couple of other stores but that was a while ago.
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« Reply #51 on: June 15, 2005, 08:46:09 AM »

DR Matt, you can order the CD at the website .  
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« Reply #52 on: June 15, 2005, 08:46:51 AM »

Matt H:  yes, and yes re:  Johnny Guitar.  It's got some cute stuff in it; great country western band.  Depends on your tolerance for arch, campy wit.

Why I believe I may have just finished charting Burt Bacharach's Theme to The Blob for the Bacharach rarities (AKA flop) medley.  ;)

TOD:  Well I absolutely fell in love with the film version of Sweet Charity when I was a kid, and, like BK with Modesty Blaise (which, strangely, I remember my sisters taking me to at a drive-in), I followed around not only from theater to theater but city to city (I got my parents to drive me as it went into second run distribution).  I don't think it's in any way the disaster that some people claim it is, and the Fosse filming of the Fosse choreography is amazing (IMHO), but it's still not the masterpiece I claimed it was 35 years ago.   :'(
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« Reply #53 on: June 15, 2005, 09:10:47 AM »

Good Morning!  Well, it's just past Morning here on the East Coast now, so...  Well..  Good Morning!

Topic of the Day: The only movies that comes to mind are the "classic" horror movies from my adolescent years, namely "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th".

Actually, now that I think of it, "Halloween" holds up much better than "Friday the 13th".  Of course, once you start hitting the sequels, well, that's a totally different story.  And the "funny" thing is, I still remember how "scary" it was watching Jamie Lee Curtis get a shot.  Just seeing someone get a hypodermic needle stuck into their skin on the big screen... ewww....

Now as for "Friday the 13th"....  I have to admit, I was a bit titillated - or should that be "telellated" - by all the sex stuff.  Oh, just so very naughty.  And, of course, all those gruesome killings.  But a few years and a few viewings later, it's all just so amazingly laughable.

*However, it was nice to see that Mark Nelson - who was the first guy killed in the movie - ended up with quite a nice stage career.

BUT... That "surprise" ending can still be a surprise at times.  -And, that, of course, set up the premise and the expectation for the sequels to do the same.

...Of course, one of the original scary surprise endings was in "Carrie", so...

OK - I'm rambling.  Post over.
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« Reply #54 on: June 15, 2005, 09:25:04 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.  Feeling quite groggy, because I decided to watch some more of Swing Hostess with Martha Tilton, and I ended up watching forty-five minutes of it.  Now I am groogy and also groggy.
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« Reply #55 on: June 15, 2005, 09:26:29 AM »

JRand, I think there is a whole spate of films from the sixties era of love, peace, and protest that have just not aged well at all...things like the Strawberry Statement, Getting Straight, etc...because they make the mistake of being political.  

Drama is about people.  When it remains about the human condition as opposed to a transitory political condition, it can transcend time and its issues remain resonant, relevant, and pertinent.  

Nothing ages faster than a movie that puts its issue of the moment before its people in the drama.
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« Reply #56 on: June 15, 2005, 09:57:36 AM »

I want to interview Martha Tilton.
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« Reply #57 on: June 15, 2005, 10:19:33 AM »

For your consideration

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AMHERST, Mass. - Two eighth-graders who spent months working on a science project to prove how dangerous BB guns can be were disqualified from the state middle school science fair. The reason for the dismissal: BB guns are too dangerous.
 
Nathan C. Woodard and Nathaniel A. Gorlin-Crenshaw spent seven months researching and testing their hypothesis that BB guns can be deadly and should not be used by children.

The students spent about $200 on ballistics gelatin, which has the same density and consistency as human flesh, to use during their tests.

‘We had a good point to prove’
Nancy G. Degon, vice president of Massachusetts State Science Fair Inc. and co-chair of the middle-school fair, said fair rules prohibit hazardous substances and devices.

“The scientific review committee does not consider science projects involving firearms to be safe for middle school students,” Degon said.

The boys were invited to present their findings to some judges and receive a certificate of accomplishment, but they rejected the offer because they were not allowed to compete.

“I was really disappointed,” Woodard said. “We had a good point to prove.”

Don't the science projects have to be approve by the studen't the before the project is started?  I understand why they might not be allowed to demonstrate the effects of a bb gun hitting the ballistics gelatin in the fair but surely, after allowing the kids to work 7 months and spend a couple of hundred dollars on the project they should be allowed to present their results.

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« Reply #58 on: June 15, 2005, 10:37:47 AM »

I want to interview Martha Tilton.

She seems excited about the idea
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« Reply #59 on: June 15, 2005, 10:45:03 AM »

Wow, Martha was quite limber!
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