Topic: JUGGLING (Read 25933 times)

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #210 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:19:02 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on October 12, 2005, 07:18:27 PM

Here are my three sisters (a Chekhov reference):

Myrna, Molly, and Paula

Molly has her eyes closed!

DR JRand, the next family edition of The Amazing Race--you and your sisters!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #211 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:26:03 PM »

LOL.....quickest elimination in the history of the show! LOL

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #212 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:30:41 PM »

mellow out with scented candles page eight dance...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #213 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:32:53 PM »

I watched ANYTHING GOES on DVD today - Molly bought it for me

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I really don't have much to add to what MR BK and DR MATTH have already said. I first saw it late one night MANY years ago in a P/S version no doubt.

I thought the color was very good and the soundtrack was nice in my 5.1 ProLogic system. The costumes were very nice, although Zizi Jeanmaire's regular clothes made her look "horsey." She is NOT a small girl and far from the ballet "ideal" - one of the reasons she left the Paris Ballet, it seems.

You have to go into the movie knowing that you are NOT going to see ANYTHING GOES by any means - the additional songs ARE painful. Cahn and Van Heusen did much better work elsewhere than they do here.

Here are my questions:

Was Mitzi Gaynor singing flat on the title song? Whew! I think the problem with that dance is (as MR BK wrote) the choreographer Ernie Flatt. He choreographed for television and it shows.

Jeanmaire reminds me TOO MUCH of Vera Ralston. Did she do her own singing? She and her husband Roland Petit met in ballet class when they were both 9 years old, and they are still married today.

Bing and Donald are Bing and Donald - and I enjoy almost everything they do.

WHAT THE HELL was that finale all about? Hats with wings that flutter? I liked the set (all the sets were good).

In the end - my FAVORITE number for song and dance was "De-Lovely" by O'Conner and Gaynor.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #214 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:33:35 PM »

Who am I, Renata Adler all of a sudden.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #215 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:36:11 PM »

Submarine movies on TCM tonight.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #216 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:39:39 PM »

TCM is rather goofy this month. A whole week of Robert Mitchum. A night of "Dangerous" movies. Submarine flicks. What's up with Robert Osbourn?

FJL · « **Reply #217 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:40:14 PM »

DR Jane - I notice that in mentioning the noodle kugel, you graciously opted not to comment on the Matzoh Brei, which actually looked more like a matzoh-and-fat scramble than a matzoh brei.

I figure if I say a few Jewish words, I'll be excused for staying in the office until after sundown tonight. (But it was the only way i could assure that the work could get done and that no one would have to bother me tomorrow.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #218 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:52:23 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on October 12, 2005, 06:16:57 PM

Colin and I will quite likely return to the Milford Plaza again. We found it convenient.

That's where we stayed this trip. We got the best deal there this time. Other times we've gotten better deals at the Edison or the Crown Plaza. It's convenient and clean. That's all we ask of a hotel since we don't spend a great deal of time there.

Matt H. · « **Reply #219 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:56:17 PM »

Thanks, DR Jane, for the Alan Tudyck report. I really did love him in SPAMALOT (well, all the guys I saw were tremendous). I should go see his film SERENITY since I was a fan of the FIREFLY television series, but when I read that it was already scheduled for DVD release in mid-December, I figured I'd save the $7 and wait for the DVD.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #220 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:58:13 PM »

CARNIVAL STORY with the great Steve Cochran and the great Jay C. Flippen and the okay Anne Baxter, that's a goody.

Matt H. · « **Reply #221 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:00:33 PM »

LOST didn't have the most suspenseful episode in its history, but I laughed several times (just love Josh Holloway as Sawyer), and Hurley's backstory has always been poignant. I liked the solution he came up with for the food.

Has Charlie started dipping into his heroin stache yet? I'm guessing no since I think Locke would have spotted it if he had.

Matt H. · « **Reply #222 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:03:03 PM »

I had planned to watch last night's SUPERNATURAL at 8 tonight, but I got involved in re-watching A FEW GOOD MEN and just let it play until 9. I hadn't watched this in a couple of years, anddespite it being an early DVD transfer, it still looks very good.

Funny to see folks like Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Noah Wyle in small parts before they became more famous in other films or on TV.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #223 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:03:04 PM »

Hmmm....

Nothing like a great meal with a good friend to help bring some sunshine into a very gray and rainy day.

The food tonight at Becco was truly wonderful. I've never had a bad meal there, and tonight was certainly no exception. In fact, the desserts on the dessert sampler tasted better and fresher than they have in the past - especially the panna cotta, the riccotina and the chocolate mousse cake. -Oh, and the grapefruit and campari sorbetto! Buon Appetito!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #224 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:05:09 PM »

OH!... And the grissini, their parmesan and peppercorn breadsticks! Sooo good.

Late night snack, DR Jason?

Matt H. · « **Reply #225 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:06:13 PM »

After LAW & ORDER finished, then I put on SUPERNATURAL (which explains why I'm later than usual logging on tonight.)

Pretty good episode, too. The boys were investigating the "Bloody Mary" creature. No, not the Tudor queen of England, but a phantom who lives in mirrors and punishes those people who have taken part in the death of a person and who invoke her name three times.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #226 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:06:57 PM »

DR SWW - I think we still have last week's "Lost" on the DVR... -I ended up catching it during it's rebroadcast last Saturday.

Matt H. · « **Reply #227 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:08:09 PM »

Recorded tonight for viewing tomorrow: VERONICA MARS and INVASION. I have to say that the previews for INVASION are compelling. The show IS getting creepier and creepier by the week.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #228 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:08:33 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on October 12, 2005, 09:00:33 PM

LOST didn't have the most suspenseful episode in its history, but I laughed several times (just love Josh Holloway as Sawyer), and Hurley's backstory has always been poignant. I liked the solution he came up with for the food.

Has Charlie started dipping into his heroin stache yet? I'm guessing no since I think Locke would have spotted it if he had.

Spoiler?

Matt H. · « **Reply #229 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:09:31 PM »

AND VERONICA MARS, well, quite a few critics are saying that the two best series on the air presently are LOST and VERONICA MARS.

Naturally, they play directly opposite each other on Wednesday night.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #230 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:10:33 PM »

WOW! Was it really only a week ago?

Matt H. · « **Reply #231 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:10:46 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on October 12, 2005, 09:08:33 PM

Spoiler?

No. Questions and comments, but nothing specific as far as solutions was revealed.

Matt H. · « **Reply #232 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:12:49 PM »

I haven't watched nip/tuck at all this season, but I set the DVR to record Tuesday's episode just to see if it is possible to get back into it after missing quite a few episodes.

I'm guessing no, but I'll see tomorrow.

Matt H. · « **Reply #233 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:16:00 PM »

I preordered this morning the first season of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN which comes out next Tuesday.

The first season was the most adult and graphic of all the seasons shot for the series. Phyllis Coates plays Lois in these, and is a tough cookie (though she does scream a lot during the season.)

I'm looking forward to having complete versions of these. I think the ones that TV LAND played for many years and that I taped were trimmed for additional commercials.

bk · « **Reply #234 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:16:41 PM »

Meeting finished. We like our casting director very much. We went over to Du-Par's for a snack and now my day is finally done - don't know if I'll have time to watch anything or not, and I'm heating up the Jacuzzi for the first time in over eight weeks, hoping that will relax my neck and back muscles.

Jane: I would have loved taking late-night walks in Times Square. I do that quite often when I'm there.

Matt H. · « **Reply #235 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:17:11 PM »

And I did eventually get mail today; it was just very late arriving (almost 5 p.m.)

Finally got ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS - Season 1 which I'll partake of this weekend, I suspect.

bk · « **Reply #236 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:24:12 PM »

I'm on disc one side two of the Hitchcock set. There are some really good episodes on side two - side one, I feel, the early stuff, they were feeling there way still (although the two Hitch directed episodes are top-notch). By the seventh or eighth show they were getting the tone right although it's still hit and miss. That said, they're all quite enjoyable.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #237 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:37:13 PM »

I used to have an early '60s paperback book of scary stories "presented" by Hitchcock. It had a scary picture of him on the cover and the words "Rock-a-bye body on the grave's edge."

Then, in gradeschool, well after he died, there was a series of kids books "Alfred Hitchcock presents The Three Detectives." About three teenage crimesolvers, it was popular among some of my friends who dressed as the three detectives for Halloween.

Matt H. · « **Reply #238 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:37:36 PM »

Amazing that SO many episodes were cranked out per season back in those days.

Remember when they revived ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and used his old intros and just colorized them? That was an experiment bound to fail.

Anthology shows don't seem to go over any more, but I don't see why they don't. No continuing story to keep up with, and you just never know from week to the next what story you'll end up with.

Matt H. · « **Reply #239 on:** October 12, 2005, 09:51:43 PM »

Well, it's WAY past my bedtime, so I'm heading in that direction now.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the evening/morning.

Good night!

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