Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.
Thanks for sharing DR FREDDIE.
Page Two.It is after all show BUSINESS.
Quote from: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 07:13:16 AMGoing with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me. That sounds like fun! Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?
Back to The Substance.
Quote from: John G. on February 14, 2025, 07:56:58 AMBack to The Substance. When will you return to Succession?
I wonder if DR JOHN G will have the same SUBSTANCE question I did?
I also couldn't breathe through clogged nostrils. It was not pleasant.
Sixteen years ago, on Feb. 14, 2009, John McGlinn's body was discovered when the police broke into his apartment. He had died from a heart attack severaldays earlier, but the actual time of death is unknown. Since then, I doubt there's not a day that passes without my mentioning or thinking of John; I cataloged his estate, and until 2015 I worked in an office surrounded by his scores, books, orchestra parts, and manuscripts. There were days when I would swear his ghost was haunting the space.I've said much ill about him and most likely will continue, and yet I owe much of my career to him. Until the Big Blowout of 2002, when he blamed Robert Kimball and me for his deserved removal from a project, we were friends. It was a strange friendship, because he had a stunted and extremely limited view of what friendship was. He probably considered mea better friend than I did him because negotiating John's megalomania, treachery, and manipulations were not always fun. For him, a good friend was someone on whose shoulder he could cry about his love life or allow him to talk about himself for hours. Occasionally the conversations were two-sided, like when he'd call and we'd start casting a concert or album together.Still, in the 1980s, working on SHOWBOAT, the Danbury Concert, the Book of the Month Club, dealing with diva Kiri Te Kanawa, and sitting in the Carnegie Recital Hall and letting him know when the band was too loud are some of my most cherished memories. Thank you, John!RIP, my friend and, sadly, my enemy. I will listen to one of your CDs today and mourn you. Maybe even miss you!
I would definitely give this movie the makeup Oscar.
Quote from: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:34:29 AMQuote from: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 07:13:16 AMGoing with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me. That sounds like fun! Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.
Larry, the split in how you feel about John McGlinn is nearly identical to my feelings about Julie Miller (former DR Julie, producer of our Last Starfighter musical at NYMF in 2007, and co-bookwriter starting in Feb. 2010 on that version of our Viva Max! book). Julie was delightful in all regards and a wonderful co-worker all the way up to Nov. 2010, then in Dec. 2010 her emails show she decided she was a co-worker only and any sense of friendship had gone completely out the window - but we stayed co-writers because I felt the co-writing we did together was great for the particular show we were working on. I don't quite know what changed her so abruptly, but emails (and the dates on them) don't lie. The only change in her circumstances that I see is that she became V.P.of MAC in Nov. 2010, just a few weeks before the abrupt change in her emails. In Nov. 2010, Julie and I had even gone together to the Ebb Foundation Award reception, the year Doug Cohen won the Ebb Award and I was one of the six finalists, and everything was still wonderful between us then. Then, beginning of Dec. 2010, it became different: Many of her emails after Nov.2010 don't even feel as if the person writing them was the same Julie I knew before the change. I suspect many of those emails after Nov. 2010 were drafted by lawyers before Julie sent them.
Got my blood work back, and everything is pretty much okay. Except for cholesterol which has been high for some time, and he'll start me on the meds to help control that. I can surely do a little better in the eating department as well.
Quote from: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 05:46:31 AMLarry, the split in how you feel about John McGlinn is nearly identical to my feelings about Julie Miller (former DR Julie, producer of our Last Starfighter musical at NYMF in 2007, and co-bookwriter starting in Feb. 2010 on that version of our Viva Max! book). Julie was delightful in all regards and a wonderful co-worker all the way up to Nov. 2010, then in Dec. 2010 her emails show she decided she was a co-worker only and any sense of friendship had gone completely out the window - but we stayed co-writers because I felt the co-writing we did together was great for the particular show we were working on. I don't quite know what changed her so abruptly, but emails (and the dates on them) don't lie. The only change in her circumstances that I see is that she became V.P.of MAC in Nov. 2010, just a few weeks before the abrupt change in her emails. In Nov. 2010, Julie and I had even gone together to the Ebb Foundation Award reception, the year Doug Cohen won the Ebb Award and I was one of the six finalists, and everything was still wonderful between us then. Then, beginning of Dec. 2010, it became different: Many of her emails after Nov.2010 don't even feel as if the person writing them was the same Julie I knew before the change. I suspect many of those emails after Nov. 2010 were drafted by lawyers before Julie sent them.That's too bad, Freddie.
