Topic: OY AND VEY (Read 30889 times)

George · « **Reply #210 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:01:33 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 25, 2006, 08:10:09 PM

DR George - Hope you're continuing to feel better too.

I am...thanks! But not quickly enough.

Matt H. · « **Reply #211 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:02:40 PM »

Quote from: George on February 25, 2006, 09:00:27 PM

My hope would be that the show might get recorded...maybe on a fairly new record label.

Just a thought.

I think it would be a wise investment for her even if she underwrote part of the expenses. It would be a great way to get her show out there to prospective producers.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #212 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:02:57 PM »

As for the Topic of the Day....

"Ferry Cross the Mersey" - David Lanz does a nice instrumental version of this song.

"The Night Chicago Died" - I fell in love with this song in fourth grade. My teacher would usually play it - and "Kung Fu Fighting" - during our lunch period.

Matt H. · « **Reply #213 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:04:30 PM »

I think that';s wonderful news about the diets of some of our DRs. Gives some of the rest of us great incintive.

George · « **Reply #214 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:05:12 PM »

Today in the mail, I got the Elaine Paige highlights CD of Evita! I've had the album for years, but never the CD...until now.

Matt H. · « **Reply #215 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:05:54 PM »

I have to admit I was a little bad tonight having some margaritas with my company. It's the first alcohol I've had in quite some time. Of course, it gave me the nibbles, so I took out some chips, and, well, you know . . . .

Matt H. · « **Reply #216 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:07:09 PM »

A friend I met on-line sent me the 1984 Tony Awards show on a DVD he burned for me. I had the tape for many years and then stupidly and inadvertantly recorded over it, so it was nice to get a replacement.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #217 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:11:17 PM »

OOHH!!

One interesting note about the Playbill for "Measure for Pleasure"... -Which DR Rodzinski had tipped us off to...

Due to some weird(!) computer(?) glitch, there are pages of the program that missing various letters.

Sometimes it's a "v"... Consequently, on the Notes from the Artistic Director, the playwright's name appears as "Da id Grimm".

Sometimes it's a "y"... "Don't miss an of our exciting 50th Anniversar Shows!", "Thursda , March 9"

Sometimes a "u"... "J ne/J ly 2006", "www.officiallye anmorton.com"

Very strange... And possibly a collector's item.

Matt H. · « **Reply #218 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:11:53 PM »

Well, I'm ready to head down to bed.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the evening.

Good night!

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #219 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:14:02 PM »

Quote from: bk on February 25, 2006, 01:04:53 AM

Poor Tammy has a sore neck.... we think she had a bit of whiplash. I told her to ice her neck, relax, think positive thoughts, and then to take a nice long hot shower to wash all pain down the drain.

I'm surprised Tammy doesn't get hurt more often. She takes a beating.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #220 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:30:08 PM »

BK, I might even drive back to see you perform in your play.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #221 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:05:36 PM »

Well...

That's all for me today...

Goodnight.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #222 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:05:45 PM »

Just want it known that I did not edit that Playbill!

In fact, those pages came to our guy "camera-ready" from the production, and the letters appeared in all proofs until the book printed. A rather mysterious thing, that.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #223 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:06:34 PM »

I have lost about 10 lbs. recently.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #224 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:13:42 PM »

I rarely am nuts about modern "important" movies made by Hollywood. But the last two films I saw, CAPOTE and GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK were remarkable, and so I must briefly rave about them.

Great lead performances at their core, but also great, subtle direction. And I find period detail in these sort of movies is often so overdone, seeming overly glossy or overly obvious, but these two films do a fantastic job recreating their time periods, again subtly. And the final bit of subtlety is in the films underlying themes. Not a heavy handed moment in either! One is not pounded over the head with the grim irony of Capote's situation or the connections between McCarthyism and our current situation in GOOD NIGHT. Two wonderful films and powerful achievements.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #225 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:14:38 PM »

Today's reasonably obscure playlist entry: Noel (son of Rex) Harrison's "A Young Girl of Sixteen".

The American release called it "A Young Girl" I think.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #226 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:15:34 PM »

Listening to a really excellent LP I found online. Irish folk crooner Mick Hanly's A KISS IN THE MORNING EARLY. Lovely, lovely.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #227 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:15:54 PM »

Playing at the moment - "Hugo & Luigi's "La Plume De Ma Tante"

Tomovoz · « **Reply #228 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:16:55 PM »

I love my collection of 45 rpm discs.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #229 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:17:45 PM »

There is always a market for Irish crooners.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #230 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:20:04 PM »

And now for Bobby Goldsboro's "Molly".

MBarnum · « **Reply #231 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:20:23 PM »

DR Rodzinksi, you have about a weeks worth of LP album covers-of-the-evening to post.

MBarnum · « **Reply #232 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:21:12 PM »

And I certainly agree with you about GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK...what a good film. I still have not seen CAPOTE.

MBarnum · « **Reply #233 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:23:16 PM »

I watched one of my favorite 1950s Universal-International films tonight..THE RESTLESS YEARS..You know that John Saxon was one heck of a good actor and so was Sandra Dee.

One of my recent interviewees, Dorothy Green, is in the movie...during the interview she remembered that she played someones mother in the film, but couldn't recall who...at first she thought she played Sandra Dee's mom, but then wasn't quite sure (and I couldn't recall, since it had been several years since I had seen the it). It turnd out she played Luana Patton's mom...a lush. She didn't have any scenes with Luana, so that is probably why she couldn't recall who her kid was in the movie! LOL!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #234 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:25:23 PM »

I think Saxon is from Brooklyn. They have a stone with his name on it when you walk through a sort of walk-of-Brooklyn-fame at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #235 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:29:31 PM »

I found some good 45s this week, Tomovoz. "Philadelphia USA" by the Nu Tornados, "No Matter What Sign You Are" by the Supremes, some Ronnie Dove, a couple others.

One was a single by someone called Son of Pete which I bought because I like the Berserkley label, but it turned out to be a novelty: Get this, two sides of total silence (one called "Silent Knight"). What a waste of vinyl.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #236 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:34:23 PM »

I do have the Nu Tornados disc and the Supremes track also. For some strange reason the Nu Tornados disc actually cracked the top 40 here! Perhaps it was magic record.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #237 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:35:40 PM »

Guess you'll be burning copies of the Son of Pete disc or transferring it to CD.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #238 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:35:45 PM »

"Magic Record" is the better side as far as I'm concerned! Fun tune.

"Goochie-yama-giggly-goo, I cast a spell of love over you!"

Tomovoz · « **Reply #239 on:** February 25, 2006, 10:41:12 PM »

I remember seeing "The Restless Years " at the movies Michael. I've not seen it since 1959!

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