Topic: BELLY DANCING (Read 25493 times)

Jane · « **Reply #120 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:29:00 AM »

I took a belly dance class once. It was fun but I decided to drop it when I became pregnant with Bryan.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #121 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:41:21 AM »

Just ordered SECOND ACT TROUBLE and HOW SONDHEIM FOUND HIS SOUND.

Has any DR read A FINE ROMANCE - the story of Broadway to Hollywood transitions? If it has been discussed here before, sorry....

Jennifer · « **Reply #122 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:42:23 AM »

DR Ann, I hope you feel better.

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Jrand73 · « **Reply #123 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:43:02 AM »

Sorry to tell you, DRMBARNUM, that Lois January will NOT be attending the show as she is in poor health.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #124 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:57:04 AM »

I just potponed my visit with Mr Tom Jones and his family till next week: too much to do this afternon before my trip to the Village tonight. I had a lovely two hours at the NYPL Music Collection looking at the new Kurt Weill Edition and critical notes. Wednesday, I looked at the new partitur of THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE and today was the new edition of DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER. Tomorrow, I need to look over the critical notes to each set.

DR MBarnum, I just caught a bit of PASSIONS, the world's most inane and badly written soap opera, and they had a Bollywood fantasy sequence. The actors on this show are so grade D that you'll want to interview every one of them some day.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #125 on:** January 27, 2006, 11:59:14 AM »

Quote from: JRand55 on January 27, 2006, 11:41:21 AM

Just ordered SECOND ACT TROUBLE and HOW SONDHEIM FOUND HIS SOUND.

Has any DR read A FINE ROMANCE - the story of Broadway to Hollywood transitions? If it has been discussed here before, sorry....

I've read HOW SONDHEIM FOUND HIS SOUND, which was okay, and I've purchased and browsed through A FINE ROMANCE. I don't have an opinion of it yet. Now I'm reading the pornographic BRANDO UNZIPPED. Who is this writer?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #126 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:16:51 PM »

DR ANN, I don't know what to say. If you have any documentation of false allegations, I'd get an attorney and sue their asses. I do believe that what goes around comes around, even though I've seen too many examples in the City of false friends never getting what they deserve. It's too bad you've got to enter the job market now that you need to, as opposed to looking for another job while still in one, but I wish you well and hope it all works out to your satisfaction. What work would you like to do?

Ginny · « **Reply #127 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:23:09 PM »

DR Ann - I'm so sorry about your job situation. Do you need the chocolate pie picture, too?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #128 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:32:30 PM »

Petruchio, a gentleman from Verona suffered from a form of bi-polar disorder. A local physician prescribed an experimental drug "Equivo" to calm him down. Unfortunately, his shrewish wife was wont to hide the pills. He was oft heard to roar "Where is my Equivo Kate!"

der Brucer

Jrand73 · « **Reply #129 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:35:32 PM »

Didn't the author of BRANDO UNZIPPED also release a book about Katharine Hepburn? Darwin Porter.

It's a terrible book that includes page after page of QUOTES from personal conversations between persons now long dead.

Example:

Cukor told Kate that Errol Flynn had once again made a casting-couch visit to his office "plea bargaining" to be cast as Rhett Butler.

"Even though it's against your usual practice," Kate said, "did you once again manage to resist his sexual overtures?"

"I'm a man of mere flesh, and he overcame my resistance," Cukor said. "After we'd done the dirty deed, I had to warn him that there still wasn't any guarantee that he would play Rhett."

"When Flynn comes to New York, give im my number at Fenwick" Kate said. "I want to convince Selznick that Flynn is very attracted to me."

"Okay," Cukor warned her, "but in Flynn's case you'll be getting sloppy seconds following your director's conquest of this handsome Aussie devil."

And so it goes, conversation after conversation that in all probability NEVER took place except in Porter's overheated imagination.

Is BRANDO UNZIPPED like that?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #130 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:37:18 PM »

DR ELMORE - once you finish A FINE ROMANCE, please post your thoughts. And thanks for the comment on HOW SONDHEIM FOUND HIS SOUND.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #131 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:38:17 PM »

Any mentions of Mr John Saxon in the Brando tome?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #132 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:44:42 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on January 27, 2006, 12:35:32 PM

Didn't the author of BRANDO UNZIPPED also release a book about Katharine Hepburn? Darwin Porter.

It's a terrible book that includes page after page of QUOTES from personal conversations between persons now long dead.

Example:

Cukor told Kate that Errol Flynn had once again made a casting-couch visit to his office "plea bargaining" to be cast as Rhett Butler.

"Even though it's against your usual practice," Kate said, "did you once again manage to resist his sexual overtures?"

"I'm a man of mere flesh, and he overcame my resistance," Cukor said. "After we'd done the dirty deed, I had to warn him that there still wasn't any guarantee that he would play Rhett."

"When Flynn comes to New York, give im my number at Fenwick" Kate said. "I want to convince Selznick that Flynn is very attracted to me."

"Okay," Cukor warned her, "but in Flynn's case you'll be getting sloppy seconds following your director's conquest of this handsome Aussie devil."

And so it goes, conversation after conversation that in all probability NEVER took place except in Porter's overheated imagination.

Is BRANDO UNZIPPED like that?

And just as smarmy. He's got Mildred Natwick, whom I adored, telling him the trashiest things about Brando and Guthrie McClintock. The problem is, a lot of it it's probably quite true, but the telling is so gross and the dialogue rings so false, that it's like reading "Erotic Fantasies of Hollywood by a Mad Queen." Since every source is conveniently dead, no one can fight the author.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #133 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:45:49 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on January 27, 2006, 12:37:18 PM

DR ELMORE - once you finish A FINE ROMANCE, please post your thoughts. And thanks for the comment on HOW SONDHEIM FOUND HIS SOUND.

The man certainly knows his Sondheim but he doesn't often know enough about the other folk, like Cole Porter.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #134 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:51:46 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on January 27, 2006, 12:32:30 PM

Petruchio, a gentleman from Verona suffered from a form of bi-polar disorder. A local physician prescribed an experimental drug "Equivo" to calm him down. Unfortunately, his shrewish wife was wont to hide the pills. He was oft heard to roar "Where is my Equivo Kate!"

der Brucer

This...by miles and miles...takes the prize for eliciting the biggest groan I've ever had.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #135 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:55:56 PM »

NOT Mildred!!!

Thanks for the info DRELMORE.

Oh, and DRCP - we are awaiting photos of the new libris du Pogue.

Jane · « **Reply #136 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:56:08 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 27, 2006, 11:57:04 AM

DR MBarnum, I just caught a bit of PASSIONS, the world's most inane and badly written soap opera, and they had a Bollywood fantasy sequence. The actors on this show are so grade D that you'll want to interview every one of them some day.

elmore you are sooooo funny.

Jane · « **Reply #137 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:05:15 PM »

Jose, great news you will now be part of the cast recording. Those new candy bars at See’s are rather good. Your new friends sound like fun.

Music Guy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #138 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:06:06 PM »

Quote from: Jane on January 27, 2006, 12:56:08 PM

elmore you are sooooo funny.

Isn't it odd how poking fun at someone's interests can elicit a chuckle?

Matt H. · « **Reply #139 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:10:38 PM »

Good afternoon,

It did warm up some and I even drove home this afternoon with my side window down halfway. What a beautiful day.

Matt H. · « **Reply #140 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:16:21 PM »

I had a lovely lunch with my fella (which passed by all too quickly), and then stopped off at the grocery store on the way home which will allow me to cancel my Sunday morning jaunt to the store. I was very surprised how UNCROWDED this store was on early Friday afternoon. I wish the one in my neighborhood was similarly empty; I'd always shop on Friday instead of Sunday morning.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #141 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:16:55 PM »

I am intrigued by this story....I knew nothing about it....the internet is fascinating.

http://www.tomchristopher.com/index.php?op=home/Miscellaneous/Who%20Killed%20the%20Masked%20Marvel

Matt H. · « **Reply #142 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:22:34 PM »

I decided to watch SMALLVILLE and last night's CSI tonight while waiting for IN JUSTICE to come on.

Instead, I finished up the second disc in the SUPERMAN series DVD set. "The Face and the Voice" had George Reeves playing a dual role which he did very well.

"Panic in the Sky," which many aficianados consider the best SUPERMAN episode ever made, had a commentary by Jack Larson and Noel Neill. They would forget to talk getting wrapped up in the action of the story, and then when they would speak, it usually wasn't episode-specific. Larson did by far the most of the talking, and he's an engaging fellow, but I wish they could have given more insight/information into the making of the show. Of course, they've been telling stories about the show for decades and probably didn't feel they had anything new left to talk about.

Larson did reveal something I had wondered about - who was going to play Perry White after John Hamilton died; turns out, it was going to be Pierre Watkin who had played Perry in those two Columbia serials that Noel Neill was also in. Watkin guested as other characters in several SUPERMAN episodes throughout the run.

Matt H. · « **Reply #143 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:27:53 PM »

Then I put in the fifth disc of CSI: MIAMI, but only got a few minutes in when a couple of phone calls came in which effectively ended my TV watching for the afternoon. Nice to hear from both friends, neither of whom I had talked to in awhile, so I've had a very pleasant afternoon.

Jason · « **Reply #144 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:29:02 PM »

Just picked up my copy of THE COLOR PURPLE cast recording while I was out on lunch. I'm very excited.

Has anyone here read, "The Life Of Pi?" I'm gonna start it once I finish "A Million Little Pieces," which I should finish tonight on the bus to DC. Just curious what people are saying about "Pi."

Jrand73 · « **Reply #145 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:29:13 PM »

Thanks for the comments on the SUPERMAN dvd commentaries, DR MATTH. I haven't listened to them yet, but was VERY disappointed in the brevity and the content on the "special" feature on Noel Neill.

The last three seasons of SUPERMAN only had 13 or so new episodes, so I am wondering how these are going to be released....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #146 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:30:18 PM »

Glad to hear your lunch went well. I also used to grocery shop VERY EARLY on Saturday morning (by Sunday the specials have ended here) - but since I switched from Kroger's to Aldi's I have to go at regular hours.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #147 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:30:19 PM »

Quote from: Ben on January 27, 2006, 05:14:56 AM

I also have my Gracie Fields CD.

Sigh... the memories.

Philadelphia, during World War II, black-out time - all city lights are off, the house windows covered with black shades, in my bedroom the Emerson Table radio (the size of a microwave!) had a faint glow, I nestled under the covers as l listened to Gracie sing "Now Is the Hour".

der Brucer

Tomovoz · « **Reply #148 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:32:17 PM »

I became quite bored with "Pi" but it had some interesting points to make about religion! I'd skirt around the circumference - the diamater was just too wide to maintain my interest.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #149 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:33:29 PM »

"Now Is The Hour" A beautiful Hobbit song.

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