Topic: THE FRANK LOESSER NOTES (Read 2878 times)

George · « **Reply #90 on:** January 16, 2025, 12:40:42 PM »

f o u r ! ! ! !

bk · « **Reply #91 on:** January 16, 2025, 01:24:21 PM »

I futzed and finessed and made a ton of little adjustments, which I knew I'd have to do. That took awhile, then I wrote a half a new page.

bk · « **Reply #92 on:** January 16, 2025, 01:25:00 PM »

Then I did the smart thing - got back into bed and just rested for an hour, got a good idea, not sure I slept but it really helped.

bk · « **Reply #93 on:** January 16, 2025, 01:25:20 PM »

Now I shall write for the next hour.

bk · « **Reply #94 on:** January 16, 2025, 01:26:04 PM »

The meeting at the theater is at four - that gives me a LOT of time to kill after but it would be silly to go back home.

bk · « **Reply #95 on:** January 16, 2025, 01:26:36 PM »

I'll have food, but I would love to have another hour of writing, but that will have to happen after the casting session.

John G. · « **Reply #96 on:** January 16, 2025, 01:42:52 PM »

I have just finished what is considered the worst Billy Wilder of them all, Buddy Buddy. It was not good. But I enjoyed it more than any of Ray Walston’s scenes in Kiss Me, Stupid.

John G. · « **Reply #97 on:** January 16, 2025, 02:00:31 PM »

I made another Wilder YouTube find: Music in Air. It’s a clumsy musical that doesn’t do entirely right by the Hammerstein-Kern source. Wilder worked on the script under the name Billie.

And it’s his first picture with Gloria Swanson, many years before Sunset Boulevard.

Jane · « **Reply #98 on:** January 16, 2025, 02:43:53 PM »

Keith got Wordle in three.

singdaw · « **Reply #99 on:** January 16, 2025, 03:25:15 PM »

~~~AUDITION VIBES~~~ for tonight for BK & Company

Laura · « **Reply #100 on:** January 16, 2025, 03:51:46 PM »

Good afternoon.

Laura · « **Reply #101 on:** January 16, 2025, 03:52:00 PM »

For today's entertainment ......

Laura · « **Reply #102 on:** January 16, 2025, 03:52:26 PM »

..... I set the air fryer on fire.

Jane · « **Reply #103 on:** January 16, 2025, 03:59:40 PM »

Oh no!

Jane · « **Reply #104 on:** January 16, 2025, 03:59:58 PM »

How did you do that and is everything ok?

John G. · « **Reply #105 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:10:06 PM »

What a feat, Laura!

John G. · « **Reply #106 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:10:23 PM »

Air fryer flambe.

John G. · « **Reply #107 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:12:43 PM »

I have been reading Charlotte Greenwood’s bio of Billy Wilder. There’s not much depth, but she has quotes from everyone. Ginger Rogers does not come off well.

Freddie · « **Reply #108 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:18:27 PM »

Quote from: Laura on January 16, 2025, 03:52:26 PM

..... I set the air fryer on fire.

Oh no, Laura, are you OK?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #109 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:20:47 PM »

Ginger Rogers only comes off well in her own autobiography.

There is the apocryphal story of Gower Champion walking out of a Hello Dolly! put in rehearsal and meeting Hermes Pan on the street in NYC.

Champion: Why didn't you tell me?

Pan: I thought you knew.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #110 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:21:33 PM »

DR JOHN G I have a book about Billy Wilder written by Charles Brackett which is most entertaining.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #111 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:22:24 PM »

I thought it was seven a.m. and just realized it is seven p.m.

What a world.

Laura · « **Reply #112 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:42:45 PM »

Not quite sure what happened. But I discovered it right away.

Laura · « **Reply #113 on:** January 16, 2025, 04:43:03 PM »

By the way, the smoke alarm in the dining room doesn't work.

Jane · « **Reply #114 on:** January 16, 2025, 05:02:56 PM »

Do you have the air fryer in the dining room?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #115 on:** January 16, 2025, 05:19:29 PM »

Quote from: Laura on January 16, 2025, 03:52:26 PM

..... I set the air fryer on fire.

Ay yi yi!

MichaelG · « **Reply #116 on:** January 16, 2025, 06:07:11 PM »

TOD Part II: Wait, how could I have missed Lin-Manuel Miranda?

DR Iris · « **Reply #117 on:** January 16, 2025, 06:29:28 PM »

This sounds intriguing:

Every Day a Little Death: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Stephen Sondheim
editor: Josh Pachter
publisher: Level Best Books
publication date: March 22, 2025

Releasing on the ninety-fifth anniversary of Stephen Sondheim’s birth, Every Day a Little Death will be the eighth volume in editor Josh Pachter’s award-winning “inspired by” anthology series, following collections inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, the Beatles, and the Grateful Dead … and the films of the Marx Brothers.

The book will feature twenty short crime stories, each inspired by a song from one of Sondheim’s twenty musicals (including the made-for-TV Evening Primrose and the final show, Here We Are). The contributors are a mix of established crime writers and members of the theater community who are tackling crime fiction for the first time, and the resulting stories seamlessly blend crime fiction with Sondheimian themes (and include a wealth of Easter eggs for those intimately familiar with Sondheim’s work to discover).

DR Iris · « **Reply #118 on:** January 16, 2025, 06:31:40 PM »

Table of Contents:

Saturday Night: Michael Portantiere, “Class”
West Side Story: John Copenhaver, “Tonight”
Gypsy: Jeffrey Marks, “Together, Wherever We Go”
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Marcia Talley, “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid”

DR Iris · « **Reply #119 on:** January 16, 2025, 06:32:06 PM »

Anyone Can Whistle: Lisa Nanni-Messegee, “There Won’t Be Trumpets”
Do I Hear a Waltz?: Joseph S. Walker, “Bargaining”
Evening Primrose: Jeffrey Sweet, “If You Can Find Me, I’m Here”
Company: Brian Cox, “Being Alive”

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