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I'M GETTING EXISTENTIAL OVER YOU
« on: September 26, 2005, 12:16:05 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you're feeling quite existential, and now it is time for you to post until the existential cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2005, 12:17:23 AM »

And the word of the day is: EXIGUOUS!

Certainly the late-night posting was EXIGUOUS, baby, EXIGUOUS.  
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2005, 12:20:15 AM »

Favourite French Film, Les Enfants du Paradis. Also one of my favourite films about theatre.
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2005, 12:56:39 AM »

Sundays and Cybele, Les Parapluis de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Riffifi, Bob le Flambeur, Le Peau Douce, everything by Patrice Leconte, That Man From Rio and most other de Broca films.
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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2005, 01:23:29 AM »

"Amelie" and "The Baker's Wife" are the only two French movies that I've seen that I can think of right now, at almost 1:30 in the a.m.  Maybe others yet to be mentioned will trigger some memories. ;)

Wait...I've seen "The City of Lost Children."  That was a weird movie, though.  Visually stunning, but I wasn't paying as much attention as one should when watching a movie with subtitles. ::)
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2005, 02:07:03 AM »


Good evening, DR Tomovoz!
Is it getting warm(or hot) in Australia, instead of the Northern hemisphere is getting cool?
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2005, 02:21:21 AM »

From DR Vixmom's post;
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Quote from: bk on Today at 01:37:24pm
vixmom - Yes, we'll be having a hainsies/kimlets dinner for dear reader Hisaka, and I'll be excorting her around town quite a bit.

That is wonderful.  I am looking forward to seeingmany lovel pictures and hearing many lovely tales~

I very much look forward to seeing dear BK and, hopefully, DR CP and other concerned people in LA.  :D



And laters...

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BK, you'll be "excorting" Hisaka around a lot.  Does that word mean you'll be excoriating her while you're escorting her?

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Yes, I'll be excorting Hisaka.  

And Hisaka says :-[



never mind!
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2005, 02:22:32 AM »


Thank you for the sweet words, DR MATTH. I enjoy your posts every day and admire your large stock of knowledge of the world of entertainment!
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« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2005, 02:25:51 AM »


When you have a garlic, try to have a cup of Japanese green tea after the meal or before you go to bed and the odor would disappear magically from you in the next morning.  Yes, it WORKS!
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« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2005, 04:38:44 AM »

Goodnight Hisaka.  I think I had logged off well before you appeared.  Yes it is indeed becoming warm.

Hello DR Ben.
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« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2005, 04:49:00 AM »

I'm here, I'm here. I never got back on after Saturday afternoon so I had to catch up.

I have to look at the Questionnaire and return it to Jose.

I did, indeed, go to the Flea Market yesterday. It was fine. Nothing special. I go more to see friends than anything else. I always get to see three or four people that I rarely see during the year. I bought a couple of things like an autographed CD of Miss Florence Henderson doing songs from some the Broadway shows in which she appeared (South Pacific, The Girl Who Came to Supper and others). I also got CD samplers for All Shook Up (on the day it closed, how disappointing) and Never Gonna Dance. It's as close as that show ever got to a full cast recording. I enjoyed it but it received tepid reviews at best and didn't last very long.

I had nice chats with long lost friends and then I returned to the home environment. I did some grocery shopping and then we had a visit with another friend who lives on Long Island. We go to his place frequently when we venture out to LI but he has never been to our little abode. He came yesterday after a concert at Lincoln Center. We had a wonderful visit and then he took us out to dinner at Elmo, a trendy (but actually nice) place on Seventh Avenue between 19th and 20th. I shy away from trendy places because they usually don't live up to the hype, but Elmo has been open long enough to live down the hype. The place was not crowded. The food was good and the wait staff was funny and just attentive enough.

We're seeing the staged reading of Silk Stockings tonight. We have a friend in the cast. It's not selling well (at $40 a ticket I can see why) so we have comps.

I know that Danise arrives on Saturday, October 1st and I think Mr. Barnum makes his first appearance in New York on that fabled day as well. I, unfortunately (or not actually), am busy all day. I have to work until about 2pm. At 5:30 we're having dinner with another dear old friend we haven't seen for about 2 years. After that, she's off to the theatre and we are off to see a friend's Drag Pageant. He's the host (and the only one not in drag). It's a fundraiser for a gay/lesbian AA group in NY. They have a big get together every Thanksgiving for those who don't have families or choose not to return to their families at that time. Five years ago they had a "pageant" to choose the first Miss Sobriety. It was such a success that it's been going on ever since. Very funny and very well done.

After that I am free to partake in many HHW activities. Right now I am about to sign off and attend to Mr. Simbulan's questionnaire.

Later, gaters.

P.S. At 7:50 I'm all alone here with (very long) Post Number Nine!
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« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2005, 04:49:51 AM »

Ah, just as I suspected, someone else has appeared.

Good Morning/Evening, Tom.

Now we need Larry, but he's still in Ohio and I don't think the Library is open yet.
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« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2005, 05:03:11 AM »

Les filmes Francais

Grand Illusion
La belle et la bete
La Cage aux Folles
Les adventure de Rabbi Jacob
Les Uns et lea autre
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« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2005, 05:15:17 AM »

Topic of the day:

I'll echo Michael S's enthusiasm for The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.  The ad campaign for that movie had been so wacky that I was ultimately dazzled by how much it had to say about prejudice through all the laughs.

I also liked Cousin Cousine quite a lot, much better than its American adaptation.  
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« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2005, 06:28:48 AM »

My favorite French films:

Ridicule
la fille sur le pont
le mari de la coiffeuse?
Monsieur Hire
Plein Soleil ( I don't like The Talented Mr. Ripley much )
Les Aventuriers
Deux Hommes Dans La Ville
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Belle de Jour
Indochine
Chaos ( I watched this film recently. The plot is twisted and powerful.)




Well, actually, it took me a lot of time to find the titles in French on IMDb, since I know only the titles in Japanese...
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« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2005, 06:46:53 AM »

I have just noticed that I have seen very few French films. The only ones I can recall are ALPHAVILLE, and I was a mere child when I saw it, and one of the 1960s Hercules films which was an Italian and French co-production.

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« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2005, 07:23:19 AM »

J'adore d'AMELIE et LES CHORISTES. DIEUX DU STADE, aussi.

I'm a big fan of Catherine Deneuve, too. Such a loverly lady.
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« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2005, 07:24:54 AM »

Oh! I read in the Times today that THE COLOR PURPLE is now known as "Oprah Winfrey Presents THE COLOR PURPLE." Ms. Winfrey is contributing $1 Million to produce the show. She will also be featuring cast members on her TV show to promote ticket sales. This will be Ms. Winfrey's first venture in theatrical producing.
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« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2005, 07:29:51 AM »

JEAN DE FLORETTE & MANON OF THE SPRING are my favorite French films bar none.  Now if there were only decent (region one) anamorphic dvds of these. . .

The Jacques Demy films with Catherine Deneuve
PEAU D'ANE
LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG
LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT

(I also have LOLA on my queue at Netflix)

JULES & JIM
A MAN AND A WOMAN
DAY FOR NIGHT
RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE (not fond of what was musicalized, though)
PREPAREZ VOS MOICHOIRS

C'est tout por maintennent. . .
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« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2005, 07:36:07 AM »

And today's squishy food report: A sesame seed bagel overflowing with a very smelly cream cheese.

And now she's digging for gold (translated: Picking her nose). Who raised this girl!?!?!
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« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2005, 07:47:08 AM »

Yesterday MattH posted
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He also plays the family's attorney on Arrested Development
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« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2005, 07:51:50 AM »

TOD:
La Cage Au Folles and its two sequels, although they were not as hysterically funny as the first



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« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2005, 07:52:32 AM »

And today's squishy food report: A sesame seed bagel overflowing with a very smelly cream cheese.

And now she's digging for gold (translated: Picking her nose). Who raised this girl!?!?!

 I take it you have not invited her to join the food tour?
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« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2005, 07:54:58 AM »

Last I did indeed manage to butter up the vixdad sufficiently to be taken out for a lovely steak dinner
while the Vixter was at her Youth Group dinner & meeting
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« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2005, 07:57:23 AM »

In answer to bk's query about Angela Lansbury's first on-screen singing, no, two MGM films featured her actual voice and not a dubber: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY where she sang "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird" and TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY where she sang "How'd You Like to Spoon With Me?"

And it is clearly her voice in those songs because during the run of MURDER SHE WROTE, she reprised both of them in various episodes playing her cousin Emma McGill, and remarkably her voice sounded exactly the same as it had in the 1940s.
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« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2005, 07:58:24 AM »

Good morning!

Again, the sun was behind overcast skies this morning, so I did take my walk. Not as enjoyable as it could be, but it wasn't quite as muggy this morning as yesterday.
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« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2005, 08:00:20 AM »

Oh! I read in the Times today that THE COLOR PURPLE is now known as "Oprah Winfrey Presents THE COLOR PURPLE." Ms. Winfrey is contributing $1 Million to produce the show. She will also be featuring cast members on her TV show to promote ticket sales. This will be Ms. Winfrey's first venture in theatrical producing.

I wish her better luck than Rosie O'Donnell had on her venture in play producing!
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« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2005, 08:00:55 AM »

DR Michael Shayne and I have the same taste in French cinema:

GRAND ILLUSION
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
ORPHEUS
THE 400 BLOWS
DAY FOR NIGHT
THE LAST METRO
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« Reply #28 on: September 26, 2005, 08:02:16 AM »

I wish her better luck than Rosie O'Donnell had on her venture in play producing!

Of course, Rosie fronted the entire $10-14 million for TABOO, I believe.

$1 million is pretty much chicken feed in producing a musical these days.
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« Reply #29 on: September 26, 2005, 08:04:41 AM »

I read that LESTAT will be playing the Palace when it opens next spring. Great!
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