Topic: GIRDING MY LOINS (Read 22963 times)

Hisaka · « **Reply #30 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:55:48 AM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on July 31, 2005, 05:59:36 AM

Hisaka, do you have any flowers blooming in your garden now?

Only a few white small roses are barely blooming now. The temperature is too high, not only for human beings but for any flower and plant, to breathe. All pant from the heat in Tokyo.

$:-\$ Is there any cactus around your home environment? I have an aloe (it’s not a kind of cactus?) which I planted five years ago in an obscure corner of my tiny garden, however, it has a big orange colored flower every year since then. It’s strong and in tone in this quite bad condition.

bk · « **Reply #31 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:55:55 AM »

Hisaka is scratching her head trying to figure out why I am feeling oats. :-)

bk · « **Reply #32 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:57:03 AM »

It's already a scorcher here in the City of Studio.

bk · « **Reply #33 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:58:04 AM »

This kind of heat is not so good for flowers and vegetation, although the two hanging plants in the yard, which were basically dead when I moved in, have been given tender loving care (TLC) and are in bloom and quite pretty - but I water them every day in this heat.

Hisaka · « **Reply #34 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:58:35 AM »

TOD;
West Side Story (!!!!!)
A Chorus Line (’77)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Clockwork Orange
La Dolce Vita
The Leopard
Death In Venice
The Postman ( of Michael Radford, not of Kevin Costner)

bk · « **Reply #35 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:58:53 AM »

I spy me a TPunk. Is TPunk wearing her lounging pyjamas? Do they match Rodzinski's lounging pyjamas?

bk · « **Reply #36 on:** July 31, 2005, 08:59:24 AM »

I spy me an FJL? We'll be having an FJL announcement around these here parts very soon.

Kerry · « **Reply #37 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:01:49 AM »

The French version of the original LOLITA poster is a great graphic.

bk · « **Reply #38 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:02:12 AM »

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a lovely poster, and always goes for a lot of money. The large Italian BOT poster is even better.

Some of the more lurid sci-fi posters are absolute classics - like Not of This Earth, Queen of Outer Space, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Incredible Shrinking Man, This Island Earth, Forbidden Planet, and many others. If MBarnum was here, he'd eat this topic up.

bk · « **Reply #39 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:04:19 AM »

I've always found Japanese movie posters very interesting - I've tried for years to find an ORIGINAL Japanese poster for High and Low, but it's proven impossible. I have a reissue poster that's quite nice, but it's not from the original release, and you know how I am.

Hisaka · « **Reply #40 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:05:14 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 31, 2005, 08:58:04 AM

This kind of heat is not so good for flowers and vegetation, although the two hanging plants in the yard, which were basically dead when I moved in, have been given tender loving care (TLC) and are in bloom and quite pretty - but I water them every day in this heat.

Good morning, dear BK!
Dis the one hour and ten minutes massge work on your loins?
I didn't know you have plants. What kind of hanging plants you have in the yard?

bk · « **Reply #41 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:05:22 AM »

And Polish movie posters are completely surreal and wacky and nothing like you've ever seen in your life. Their take on American films is unbelievable - maybe someone could net search and find the famous Polish Cabaret poster.

bk · « **Reply #42 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:06:21 AM »

I don't know the names of plants. One is red flowers, and one is pink flowers.

The massage was great and just what the doctor ordered.

bk · « **Reply #43 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:06:54 AM »

I spy me a Jennifer.

Hisaka · « **Reply #44 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:08:26 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 31, 2005, 09:04:19 AM

I've always found Japanese movie posters very interesting - I've tried for years to find an ORIGINAL Japanese poster for High and Low, but it's proven impossible. I have a reissue poster that's quite nice, but it's not from the original release, and you know how I am.

I'll try and find the original one for you, in Japan.

Hisaka · « **Reply #45 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:09:49 AM »

I'm off to bed.
Good night and Have a beautiful day, all!

FJL · « **Reply #46 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:15:16 AM »

Free associating just a bit, the reference to the pink MY FAIR LADY poster brought to mind a conversation I had the other day. I was on the phone with the bank ordering new checks. Apparently, my account allows me to get free checks. The lady told me that I can either have my choice of color for $7.50, or take the bank's standard checkbook for free. I asked what color the free checks were, and she said, "They're sort of a pink, with a touch of grey." I asked if a lot of people order the pink checks, and she said most people opt to pay the $7.50 when they hear the free checks are pink. I decided to spring for the $7.50 checks.

The most memorable (in a bad way) movie poster for me was for the original movie WILLARD. My aunt and uncle and grandmother had a lovely bungalow in Far Rockaway, where my grandmother would make her truly great matzoh balls with schmaltz (had to work that word in) all year round, but to get there we had to walk from the subway. At night, although the bungalow was in a dleightful section, the area right near the subway was creepy, and the creepy WILLARD posters were everywhere for a number of weeks. For several impressionable years, I couldn't get the image of the rats out of my head when I went to Far Rockaway. Or for that matter, when that schmaltzy but weird ode to the rat called "Ben" started playing on the radio a few years later.

And DR Hisaka, if you do go to Disney World on your birthday, I hope that - like mine - your birthday is at a time of year (in my case early May) when there are virutally no lines. That was truly a fantasy come true.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #47 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:24:16 AM »

Favorite posters:

"Spartacus" -- the original red with gold medallion images of its stars.
"Camelot"
"Manhattan" -- the one that features the photo of the bridge with the two figures in the foreground silhouetted against it.
"The Egyptian"
...and tons more.

Worst poster I've ever seen (worst ad campaign, too):

"Finian's Rainbow" -- WHAT, exactly, were they thinking?

TPunk · « **Reply #48 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:31:55 AM »

I just finished catching up on the last few days of postings. Thanks to Jose's pictures from a few days ago, I know have a big craving for Magnolia cupcakes.

Maybe I will just settle for baking a cake later today. But not right now, it's way too hot!

TPunk · « **Reply #49 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:33:21 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 31, 2005, 08:58:53 AM

I spy me a TPunk. Is TPunk wearing her lounging pyjamas? Do they match Rodzinski's lounging pyjamas?

No matching lounging pyjamas today. We save those for special occasions.

TPunk · « **Reply #50 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:39:19 AM »

Our apartment is in quite a state of disarray right now. Rodzinski is hard at work cleaning and rearranging the furniture in our guest room. It's been a long time since we've deep cleaned that room (or any room for that matter).

I feel kind of guilty hanging out on the computer while he is hard at work, but someone's got to keep our postings up!

TPunk · « **Reply #51 on:** July 31, 2005, 09:40:18 AM »

I wish I had a digital camera so I could post a photo of Walty right now. He is sprawled out on our toilet seat- I have never seen anything like it!

Jason · « **Reply #52 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:15:25 AM »

I know movie posters are iconic, but honestly, there aren't that many that I remember! Now, ask me about windowcards for any Broadway show and I'd probably have a list a mile long, but movies...?

I own an original poster for 9 to 5, but that's only 25-ish years old, so I guess that's no great shakes. I love the original trilogy posters for STAR WARS.

Jason · « **Reply #53 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:15:54 AM »

Wow...I'm all alone at HHW. I think that's a first!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #54 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:37:01 AM »

Nice trip. Thanks to all DR's who posted comments on my PIPPIN posts! Crossing my fingers.

bk · « **Reply #55 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:38:37 AM »

I shall now be on my way to Mr. Grant Geissman's and then on to Vinnie's. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #56 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:41:26 AM »

Hmmm....

Well Mr BK mentioned ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN which is one of my favorites! It doesn't actually have much to the with the movie, though.

I like the original BEACH PARTY poster with a great ocean wave and Frankie & Annette.

Most of AIP's films from the 50's have great posters, in fact sometimes the poster & title came before the movie. NOT OF THIS EARTH, art used on a BK produced CD of Ronald Stein's music is great, although it's subject is NOT one of my favorite people.

Of all the movie posters I own, 25 or 30 I guess, my favorites are:

HARLOW with Carroll Baker, the second campaign with a huge portrait of Carroll!

50 FOOT WOMAN - reproduction

HIGH POWERED RIFLE - but I've never seen the movie

THE CROWDED SKY - three sheet

Jrand73 · « **Reply #57 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:41:47 AM »

I am hungry.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #58 on:** July 31, 2005, 10:49:41 AM »

Of all the movies with multiple campaigns - one of my favorites is a classic.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #59 on:** July 31, 2005, 11:06:18 AM »

Good Afternoon!

Greetings from Room B35 in Mark Hopkins on the campus Williams College!

A great train ride up! Of course, I ended up sitting on the "wrong" side again, and did not have the Hudson River view outside my window, but that was OK since I ended up napping for most of the ride up.

I was met at the Amtrak station in Albany by Sidney, one of the company management interns. There were two other people she was picking up, Patrick (Peter?) who's here with the GreyLock company, and Frances ____ who is some sort of designer - I'm thinking lighting. We had a very nice drive from Albany to Williamstown. We passed through lots of little towns, and there were some lovely views of the mountains along the way.

So... Now I'm here. I've met a couple of the people I'll be working with, and I'll be heading over to rehearsal in a little bit. After lunch.

OH! And "they" covered Roger Rees' office in aluminum foil today. -In fact, there are signs all over the admin building with the word "TODAY" on them. That's it. So... I shall go and take a picture if I can. *When I walked by earlier, everyone was just in there working away as usual - of course, their chairs, desks, and computer and windows are all covered in foil!

Laters...

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