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Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on April 23, 2013, 12:23:30 AM

Title: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 12:23:30 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were on the boards, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently on the boards reading vile criticisms about themselves.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 12:24:00 AM
And the word of the day is: LAMIA!
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 12:24:15 AM
A perfect word to describe our haineshisway.com troublemaker.
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Post by: Doug R on April 23, 2013, 01:14:54 AM
bk - I liked the notes. As regards the reviews on a certain well-known Blu-ray website, did you read the plot description of "Accident"? I have rarely read such nonsense.
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Post by: Doug R on April 23, 2013, 01:15:45 AM
It's a sunny day and I'll soon be off on my drive to Wales.
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Post by: Michael on April 23, 2013, 01:21:12 AM
Good morning to all
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Post by: Michael on April 23, 2013, 01:22:06 AM
couldn't sleep.
tried everything except a pill
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Post by: Michael on April 23, 2013, 01:24:02 AM
Perhaps Twilight Time shouldn't supply review copies to these idiots.
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Post by: Michael on April 23, 2013, 01:33:46 AM
TOD
I have 4 volumes of Noël Coward songs. Volume 1 (1928-1932), Volume 2 (1932-1936), Volume 3 (1932-1943) Volume 4 (1944-1951). These are all songs written and sung by Coward with the exception 5 which he does with Gertrude Lawrence. The are recordings I bought in Montreal imported from London where the recordings are no longer under copyright.

Even the Broadway cast recording of My Fair Lady is no longer under copyright in England.
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Post by: Ben on April 23, 2013, 02:18:20 AM
Morning all.

That is all.
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:26:23 AM
Morning all.

That is all.


That's quite a lot.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:27:32 AM
How did the quote under my avatar become "Be careful out there" I wonder - I don't recall changing it. 

Is it a visit from someone on - Angel Street?


:)

Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:41:13 AM
Actually, does anyone have a printout of a page recently?  Has "Be careful out there" actually been there all along and maybe got there by some default when I changed my avatar from a photo to the stage door icon?
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2013, 04:38:51 AM
Good morning, all.

Coffee!
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 04:51:11 AM
Good morning, all! Today is the birthday of William Shakespeare, and I may celebrateit tonight by watching one of his plays on DVD. I'm partial to these DVDs:
  Much Ado About Nothing (the Joseph Papp production with Sam Waterston, Kathleen Widdoes, and my beloved Barney Hughes)
  Henry V (I like both Olivier and Branagh productions)
  Twelfth Night (the Trevor Nunn film)

Last night I slept terribly: too much tsuris over the DEAREST ENEMY liner notes, and I must deal with issues on that today. I dreamed I was back at The Drama Book Shop, which was located on a street somewhere between Seventh Avenue and 52nd Street and Oz. At 5:30 Iwaswide awake with the DEAREST ENEMY song "Bye and Bye" running through my mind.

Today, i have a date with my colleague Peter Foley to print and bind full scores for ROBERTA. I hope it goes well. We have to use the huge binder, and I've never worked with it. We'll bind three copies: one for me, and two for the conductor and the producer.

The TOD:
If Love Were All
That Is The End Of The News
Mad Dogs And Englishmen
I've Been To A Marvelous Party
Sail Away
London Pride
I'll Follow My Secret Heart (the verse is better than the refrain)

 
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2013, 05:13:11 AM
Good morning, all.

I'll second Mike's notion: Perhaps Twilight Time shouldn't supply review copies to these idiots.

Vibes to all, especially travel vibes for TCB and kitchen vibes for Danise.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Doug R on April 23, 2013, 05:16:43 AM
On the road. Now stopped for a cappuccino.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2013, 05:20:50 AM
TOD:

Parisian Pierrot
Mad About the Boy
I'll See You Again
I'll Follow My Secret Heart
Beatnik Love Affair
London Pride
A Room With a View
Dance, Little Lady
Why Do the Wrong People Travel?


I also love some of his Cole Porter spoofs, in particular his twisted take on "Weren't We Fools":

Weren't we fools
To say goodbye.
You chose your brother,
So did I.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2013, 05:22:27 AM
Beautiful birds, Laura. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Sam on April 23, 2013, 05:32:40 AM
 ;D
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Post by: Sam on April 23, 2013, 05:35:07 AM
Good morning.

Saw Oblivion last night.   I did like it.  ;D

Watched Bye Bye Birdie over the weekend.   ;D ;D
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Post by: Sam on April 23, 2013, 05:36:11 AM
Off to work.  ;D

Need coffee at work.  ;D

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Post by: Sam on April 23, 2013, 05:36:48 AM
Mega vibes everyone.  ;D

I'm tired.  Got nothing.
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Post by: Kerry on April 23, 2013, 06:00:40 AM
It's Tuesday again.
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Post by: Druxy on April 23, 2013, 06:39:22 AM
TOD:

If Love Were All
I'll See You Again
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 07:01:43 AM
Greetings from Toyland!
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 07:37:49 AM
DR FJL I think when you make a change ALL of your past posts reflect that change....I think.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 07:38:34 AM
I now have a spiffy new 3.0 modem so that I can take advantage of the COMCAST Super Speed that has been introduced.  I do seem to be running a bit faster....we shall see.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 07:39:42 AM
DR VIXMOM your envelope was posted this morning via FIRST CLASS so you should have it sometime before summer.  I also included a copy of my audition disk that contains PIPPIN music only tracks so that you can sing along whenever you wish.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 07:47:56 AM
Perhaps Twilight Time shouldn't supply review copies to these idiots.

It's not the reviewers...it's the forum "members".  The reviewers tend to be fair.  It's the precious "few members" who lead the pack away from truth and into nasty comments.

For instance, if anyone here has the Blu ray of "Howard's End" on the Criterion label, I hope your experience is as great as mine was.  It's a gorgeous transfer.

At one forum, a band of misbegots complained it was an unwatchable mess...that they didn't even have a viewable image.  When others of us said ours were beautiful, they decried us a liars and fiends and apologists and stockholders, etc., etc.

When a mob mentality, no matter how small the mob, tackles an issue, they have no tolerance for anyone with a different point of view.  I don't doubt they were having issues with their copies.  And it may have been their copies, but it also could have been how their particular machines were reading code on the Blu ray discs.  I grant you, this should never be an issue when playing Blu ray discs on various brands of machines.  And if it is, then the fault must lie in the coding, IMO.   But to say that what I see isn't gorgeous when it is, just because theirs isn't, is ridiculous.
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Post by: Ben on April 23, 2013, 07:50:37 AM
DR FJL I think when you make a change ALL of your past posts reflect that change....I think.

Correct, JR. If you make a change to your picture or caption under it or the line under your posts today it modifies every post you ever made, all the way back to your very first post.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 07:54:09 AM
Actually, does anyone have a printout of a page recently?  Has "Be careful out there" actually been there all along and maybe got there by some default when I changed my avatar from a photo to the stage door icon?

I don't believe the comment is linked to your avatar, but strange things "do" happen.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ben on April 23, 2013, 07:58:01 AM
You've had Be Careful Out There for a long time, Fred. Even though you don't remember it, I think you changed it when you changed to the Stage Door icon.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 08:01:23 AM
One one of the forums, a lot of us were expressing total joy over the Twilight Time issue of "The Egyptian" on Blu ray.  One of the loudest detractors/naysayers/morons not only hated the release, but also hadn't bought it, wouldn't buy it, and wouldn't watch it!

Has anyone yet found the marble that slipped and eluded his grasp?
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Charles Pogue on April 23, 2013, 08:14:59 AM
Great post today, BK.

TOD: 

If Love Were All
Nina
Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage, Mrs. Worthington
Regency Rakes
Green Carnation
Poor Little Girl
Play, Orchestra, Play
Could You Please Oblige Us With a Bren Gun
I Wonder What Happened to Him
Come The Wild Wild Weather
You Were There
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 08:35:03 AM
Goodness!  Air flossing is so refreshing!

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Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 08:36:48 AM
TOD:

Someday I'll Find You

Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ginny on April 23, 2013, 09:02:41 AM
Tuesday afternoon greetings!  Had to go for a blood test first thing this morning.  I went from there to have my car washed and to pick up a few groceries.  Home now to putter...
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 09:21:42 AM
I'm up, I'm up. 
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 09:29:54 AM
Just in time.....for something....somewhere...
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Post by: MBarnum on April 23, 2013, 09:56:28 AM
For those interested in such films, the first 6 Bomba movies are now available in a set from Warner Bros. Archives.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 10:12:46 AM
Very good news.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 10:15:41 AM
For those interested in such films, the first 6 Bomba movies are now available in a set from Warner Bros. Archives.

I'll bet your little heart is beating like a wild thing over it!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 10:53:25 AM
Johnny Sheffield said that he never needed to go to the gym during his years as Bomba, that he got all the exercise he needed from swimming, dancing, and sex.

However looking at some of the later films, he might should have gone to the gym.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 11:08:18 AM
For anyone and everyone here, no matter how I may react/respond/reply to you, you still have my

(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/RonPulliam/SealofApproval.png) (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/RonPulliam/media/SealofApproval.png.html)
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 11:11:42 AM
Johnny Sheffield said that he never needed to go to the gym during his years as Bomba, that he got all the exercise he needed from swimming, dancing, and sex.

However looking at some of the later films, he might should have gone to the gym.

It's a great quote, though.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2013, 11:31:41 AM
Yes indeed DR FJL....it is....

Johnny was a great friend of Ben Chapman who was The Creature From the Black Lagoon in the costume ON LAND.  Ben and his sister did a Tahitian Dance act in Hollywood at various night clubs....and Johnny says he sometimes joined them onstage in their act.  That would have been some NIGHT out for some bar patrons.
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 12:29:55 PM
Yes indeed DR FJL....it is....

Johnny was a great friend of Ben Chapman who was The Creature From the Black Lagoon i


In a peculiar coincidence, the Universal CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON video was filmed by (no kidding) the famous Encores video guy -  Jonathan Frank!

See vimeo link   http://vimeo.com/21752986



Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 12:57:13 PM
You've had Be Careful Out There for a long time, Fred. Even though you don't remember it, I think you changed it when you changed to the Stage Door icon.


It may have been there for a long time, but it's not an expression I use, let alone one I'd choose to have under an avatar of a stage door.    Maybe "Be careful IN there":)

I never noticed it before, so i just changed my passowrd on HHW and all is well.
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 01:02:46 PM
You've had Be Careful Out There for a long time, Fred. Even though you don't remember it, I think you changed it when you changed to the Stage Door icon.


It may have been there for a long time, but it's not an expression I use, let alone one I'd choose to have under an avatar of a stage door.    Maybe "Be careful IN there":)

I never noticed it before, so i just changed my passowrd on HHW and all is well.

If you can change your password, you can also change that comment.  Just so you know...
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 01:37:19 PM
Ron P, I'm not trying to change the comment.   The comment doesn't bother me in and of itself. 

(I'll PM you.)
Title: Re: ON THE BOARDS
Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 01:53:48 PM
Back from various and sundried things.  Did you know:  There is now some rink-dink non-profit theater company in NY called - wait for it - Unsung Musicals Company.  And now I read that this company, which has nicely just "borrowed" the name I created for a series of CDs, now are "borrowing" a series of shows called Unsung Insert Composer Name Here - their first being Unsung Jimmy Van Heusen, which is also "borrowed" from a series of very popular CDs I produced of composers, starting with my very first - Unsung Sondheim and continuing with Unsung Irving Berlin and others.  Funnily, I just don't recall an e-mail or letter from Mr. Ben West, the founder, thanking me for creating these names he's "borrowed" or even saying they're an homage to what I created.  No, I just don't recall it.
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Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on April 23, 2013, 02:02:54 PM
And the word of the day is: LAMIA!

And The Song Of The Day Is: LAST MIDNIGHT

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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:22:25 PM
Hello!  I'm back from Baltimore and NYC.
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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:23:27 PM
The competition in Baltimore, unfortunately, did not go as hoped. 
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:23:59 PM
Anyone remember the character Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H?  Well, the actor who played him, Allan Arbus, just died (http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/04/23/mash-actor-allan-arbus-dies-at-age-95/).  He was 95 years old!  AND he didn't start acting until just before he started working on M*A*S*H:

Quote
Arbus’ first major acting role came as Christ-like figure Jesse in director Robert Downey Sr.’s 1972 cult film “Greaser’s Palace,” which also starred the director’s young son, Robert Downey Jr.

He shot to prominence the role of the acerbic psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on “M*A*S*H” in 1973, a year after the Korean War comedy-drama began.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:24:22 PM
Hello!  I'm back from Baltimore and NYC.

Welcome back, KevinH!
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:24:37 PM
The competition in Baltimore, unfortunately, did not go as hoped. 

That's too bad. :(
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:24:58 PM
One one of the forums, a lot of us were expressing total joy over the Twilight Time issue of "The Egyptian" on Blu ray.  One of the loudest detractors/naysayers/morons not only hated the release, but also hadn't bought it, wouldn't buy it, and wouldn't watch it!

Has anyone yet found the marble that slipped and eluded his grasp?

What a dolt!  What a maroon!
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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:25:11 PM
I went to NYC for the Chaplin Award ceremony at Lincoln Center in honor of Ms. Streisand.
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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:25:45 PM
Thanks, George!
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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:26:05 PM
Page 3!
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:27:37 PM
Yes indeed DR FJL....it is....

Johnny was a great friend of Ben Chapman who was The Creature From the Black Lagoon i


In a peculiar coincidence, the Universal CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON video was filmed by (no kidding) the famous Encores video guy -  Jonathan Frank!

See vimeo link   http://vimeo.com/21752986

Now that could be something that TAO (http://www.olytheater.com/) could sink its community theater teeth into! ;)
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Post by: Laura on April 23, 2013, 02:29:37 PM
Good afternoon. I spent the day with a scientist and photographer doing a study in the desert about winged insects. There were many bugs.
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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:30:18 PM
The Lincoln Center Gala was really great.  One of my Barbra friends and I waited outside before the ceremony and saw some of the celebrities come out of a tent (where they had been talking to media people).  We saw Liza, Blythe Danner, Kris Kristofferson, who very nicely came over to sign a guy's LP, Catherine Deneuve and Pierce Brosnan.   And most important of all---Barbra herself!   I couldn't believe it--I had taken pictures of the others and then my camera died--apparently the battery ran down!  At least my friend took a video on her iphone.  
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Post by: KevinH on April 23, 2013, 02:35:54 PM
Liza sang "Isn't This Better, " from Funny Lady (Barbra and Brent have nothing to worry about) and "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?"  Tony Bennett performed "Smile."  Blythe Danner, Amy Irving, Ben Stiller, George Segal,  Pierce Brosnan and Kris Kristofferson talked about working with Barbra.  There were videos from Omar Sharif and Robert Redford.  President Clinton presented the award to Barbra.  She gave a nice speech, in which she said something like she had a reputation for being opinionated and bossy and that maybe that was because she was opionated and bossy. 

It was a lot of fun!
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 02:37:01 PM
We finished printing the full scores around 4:00. The new printer has a very short term memory which made it impossible to print three full scores at a time. Peter had to print one, go through the whole print setup again to print the next, and then again for the third score. It took forever, and it's finished. While he printed those, I printed from my computer the vocal score.

As soon as we finished, Peter headed north to Penn Station,and I went east to Sixth Avenue and hopped on a bus that fortuitously stopped as I got to the stop. It's been a long day, but I am really tired and very happy to be home. Tomorrow morning, I shall bind the scores and finish this project.

I have to think about dinner early and I'll probably be in bed by 9:00. I'm suddenly very, very tired.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:37:09 PM
The Lincoln Center Gala was really great.  One of my Barbra friends and I waited outside before the ceremony and saw some of the celebrities come out of a tent (where they had been talking to media people).  We saw Liza, Blythe Danner, Kris Kristofferson, who very nicely came over to sign a guy's LP, Catherine Deneuve and Pierce Brosnan.   And most important of all---Barbra herself!   I couldn't believe it--I had taken pictures of the others and then my camera died--apparently the battery ran down!  At least my friend took a video on her iphone.  

You're battery died??  Oh, the horror!! :o

;)
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 02:37:59 PM
Playbill.com has an article HERE (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/177208-PHOTO-CALL-Jeremy-Irons-Liza-Minnelli-Catherine-Deneuve-Pierce-Brosnan-Michael-Douglas-and-More-Honor-Barbra-Streisand) about the event...with pictures!! :D

(http://www.playbill.com/images/photo/s/t/streishonor42.jpg)
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 02:38:16 PM
DR KevinH, I'm happy you had a great time!
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:07:09 PM
Hello Everyone,

DR KevinH I so glad you had a great time.

Too Bad about the camera.  You should have called Barbra over and asked for her autograph.

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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:09:48 PM
In celebration of Shirley Temple's 85th B Day, I watch several of her movies when she was a teenager.

I dont understand why she didn't succeed when she aged.  I still think she was adorable and was a good actress.
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:10:53 PM
No one ever came close to her as a child actress.  What an amazing talent.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 03:11:15 PM
Apparently the usual suspects on the board I criticized don't like it when they're criticisms are criticized.  They're doing exactly as I said they would in the notes - they've Googled me, they're deriding, and behaving like eight-year-olds only that would be offensive to real eight-year-olds. 
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:12:16 PM
Does anyone enjoy Shirley Temple's movies?
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:13:59 PM
Hi BK,
I was wondering who is your favorite actor and what is your all time favorite movie?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 03:22:32 PM
I have several favorites - Joel McCrea, Cary Grant, James Stewart - and my favorite movie changes often, but include titles like The Court Jester, North by Northwest, The White Sheik (Fellini), Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Double Indemnity, etc.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 03:25:19 PM
I just got a completely random Facebook message from some gal wanting the rights to the video I directed called Rappin' and Rhymin' for Hanna-Barbera back in the late 1980s.  She is literally the first person I've ever heard from who's seen it.  Hanna-Barbera were going belly up when we made it, and they just shoved it out on VHS as they were closing shop.  I told her to try and find whoever owns that catalogue, but since it's a school thing, I also told her if she couldn't find it she could probably just do it and be safe.  She wants to put it on stage - she credits the video with her wanting to be a dancer (my pal Gene Castle did the great choreography) and go into the business - that part made me feel good.
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:26:32 PM
Cary Grant and James Stewart are among my favorites also.  Also I loved North by Northwest and Double Indemnity.  My favorite James Stewart Comedy is Mr Hobb's Goes on Vacation.
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:35:57 PM
I just got a completely random Facebook message from some gal wanting the rights to the video I directed called Rappin' and Rhymin' for Hanna-Barbera back in the late 1980s.  She is literally the first person I've ever heard from who's seen it.  Hanna-Barbera were going belly up when we made it, and they just shoved it out on VHS as they were closing shop.  I told her to try and find whoever owns that catalogue, but since it's a school thing, I also told her if she couldn't find it she could probably just do it and be safe.  She wants to put it on stage - she credits the video with her wanting to be a dancer (my pal Gene Castle did the great choreography) and go into the business - that part made me feel good.


Feeling good is always a good thing!
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:38:01 PM
Hey BK,
I just viewed Rappin' and Rhymin' on the internet.  I watch about 3 minutes.  It was very good. 
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:38:11 PM
KevinH, loved reading your Barbra adventure!  The New York Times has a really nice piece on the event, too!

.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/barbra-streisand-at-a-gala-and-in-memory/
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:43:00 PM
Speaking of Barbra - Kevin, have you seen BUYER AND CELLAR, the off-Bway play that's ABOUT Barbra Streisand starring Michael Urie.

The Times has a scene from it on video here:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/in-performance-michael-urie-of-buyer-cellar/

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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 03:43:33 PM
And that's it about Barbra in the Times today.  But that's a lot!
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Post by: Kate on April 23, 2013, 03:49:42 PM
Signing off for now.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 04:01:54 PM
Rappin' and Rhymin' is on You Tube in its entirety.  Haven't seen it for about fifteen years.  And you know what?  It's really well done, I think - who knew a Jew could do a good job directing rap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9INlnESVnCQ
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 04:27:14 PM
Just nosing around the Internet about our Rappin' and Rhymin' cast - it's been over twenty-one years since we did it.  Our female lead, Micki Duran, is still in the business and working - she danced in Showgirls (!) and several other film musicals, has done guest shots, and is a yoga instructor and exercise video person and lives in - the City of Studio.  I just wrote her on Facebook.  Eddie Mikrut, one of our young dancers (he looks like he's fifteen or thereabouts in the show) is now a well-known ballet dancer and a principal with the Nashville Ballet.  Our male lead Damon danced in the film of Newsies and several other things like that - can't find any trace of him. 
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 04:35:32 PM
Rappin' and Rhymin' is on You Tube in its entirety.  Haven't seen it for about fifteen years.  And you know what?  It's really well done, I think - who knew a Jew could do a good job directing rap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9INlnESVnCQ

Here's a screen shot!

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/BK-RappinnRhymin-DirectedbyBruceKimmelscreenshot_zps3c4dfd1f.png)

:D
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 04:47:35 PM
Page three?  Three pages?  Don't make me start rapping.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 05:44:09 PM
I've spent the last hour cutting about 200 words from one essay for the recording. I have two grisly ones that need to lose 50% of their material. It will take me days to accomplish it.

I think I am going to head for bed.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 05:44:30 PM
Are we anywhere near page 4?
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 05:45:09 PM
!!!! 4 !!!!

Yes, we were!
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2013, 05:45:28 PM
My work is done.
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 05:50:30 PM

As soon as we finished, Peter headed north to Penn Station,and I went east to Sixth Avenue and hopped on a bus that fortuitously stopped as I got to the stop. It's been a long day, but I am really tired and very happy to be home. Tomorrow morning, I shall bind the scores and finish this project.



Who was it who said Lead us not into Penn Station
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2013, 06:08:45 PM
Is groaning allowed here?
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2013, 06:10:45 PM
Good evening.  Back from an Oy! rehearsal.  Don't ask.

The kids are very accomplished at some of this, but tonight was from Hell, making it hard to believe we're "opening" in three nights.
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2013, 06:13:44 PM
Oh my god.    :)    Watching the video.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 06:19:06 PM
You like rap, well follow me...
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2013, 06:23:31 PM
Oh my, that was fun.  And charming!  What a trip back, man.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 06:28:35 PM
I'm tellin' you, I was the King of Rap, baby.  More amusingly, Norman Martin, who wrote the lyrics, was a seventy-year-old Jew, who also co-wrote the book for 70 Girls 70 and who had a long artistic relationship with Shari Lewis.
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:32:07 PM
DR VIXMOM your envelope was posted this morning via FIRST CLASS so you should have it sometime before summer.  I also included a copy of my audition disk that contains PIPPIN music only tracks so that you can sing along whenever you wish.


thank you so very much --  I am not sure the family will thank you for the music only tracks as they try to curtail my efforts to express myself through song -" nails on a chalkboard" I believe was the most recent description of my lovely singing voice, but I , for one am eagerly looking forward to your gift    :-* :-* :-*
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:33:03 PM
How did the quote under my avatar become "Be careful out there" I wonder - I don't recall changing it. 

Is it a visit from someone on - Angel Street?


:)



It has been there for a long time,FJL,but Jack is right, when you make a change it shows on all your posts past and present
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:35:57 PM
Good morning, all! Today is the birthday of William Shakespeare, and I may celebrateit tonight by watching one of his plays on DVD. I'm partial to these DVDs:
  Much Ado About Nothing (the Joseph Papp production with Sam Waterston, Kathleen Widdoes, and my beloved Barney Hughes)
  Henry V (I like both Olivier and Branagh productions)
  Twelfth Night (the Trevor Nunn film)

Last night I slept terribly: too much tsuris over the DEAREST ENEMY liner notes, and I must deal with issues on that today. I dreamed I was back at The Drama Book Shop, which was located on a street somewhere between Seventh Avenue and 52nd Street and Oz. At 5:30 Iwaswide awake with the DEAREST ENEMY song "Bye and Bye" running through my mind.

Today, i have a date with my colleague Peter Foley to print and bind full scores for ROBERTA. I hope it goes well. We have to use the huge binder, and I've never worked with it. We'll bind three copies: one for me, and two for the conductor and the producer.

The TOD:
If Love Were All
That Is The End Of The News
Mad Dogs And Englishmen
I've Been To A Marvelous Party
Sail Away
London Pride
I'll Follow My Secret Heart (the verse is better than the refrain)

 




The Branagh version is my favorite version of Much Ado About Nothing   and the Trevor Nunn version of Twelfth Night

Its too late to pull them out tonight but maybe tomorrow
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 07:37:24 PM
How did the quote under my avatar become "Be careful out there" I wonder - I don't recall changing it. 

Is it a visit from someone on - Angel Street?


:)



It has been there for a long time,FJL,but Jack is right, when you make a change it shows on all your posts past and present

Dear FJL - this is now the second person who has said it's been there for a long time.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 07:37:59 PM
I'm watching The Great Gatsby - the Farrow/Redford version.  It's VERY slow.
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:41:46 PM
The competition in Baltimore, unfortunately, did not go as hoped. 

I am so sorry to hear this , your nephew must be very dissapointed
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:44:09 PM
Anyone remember the character Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H?  Well, the actor who played him, Allan Arbus, just died (http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/04/23/mash-actor-allan-arbus-dies-at-age-95/).  He was 95 years old!  AND he didn't start acting until just before he started working on M*A*S*H:

Quote
Arbus’ first major acting role came as Christ-like figure Jesse in director Robert Downey Sr.’s 1972 cult film “Greaser’s Palace,” which also starred the director’s young son, Robert Downey Jr.

He shot to prominence the role of the acerbic psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on “M*A*S*H” in 1973, a year after the Korean War comedy-drama began.

oh I liked him --- RIP  Allan Arbus
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:46:49 PM
Good afternoon. I spent the day with a scientist and photographer doing a study in the desert about winged insects. There were many bugs.

 I can honestly say this is one walk with Laura I would cheerfully miss -  bird watching I am all for  (great pictures yesterday BTW)  but bug watching makes me feel itchy
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 07:47:57 PM
The Lincoln Center Gala was really great.  One of my Barbra friends and I waited outside before the ceremony and saw some of the celebrities come out of a tent (where they had been talking to media people).  We saw Liza, Blythe Danner, Kris Kristofferson, who very nicely came over to sign a guy's LP, Catherine Deneuve and Pierce Brosnan.   And most important of all---Barbra herself!   I couldn't believe it--I had taken pictures of the others and then my camera died--apparently the battery ran down!  At least my friend took a video on her iphone.  

oh no!  What a time for your camera to fail!
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 07:55:16 PM
How did the quote under my avatar become "Be careful out there" I wonder - I don't recall changing it. 

Is it a visit from someone on - Angel Street?


:)



It has been there for a long time,FJL,but Jack is right, when you make a change it shows on all your posts past and present

Dear FJL - this is now the second person who has said it's been there for a long time.


BK, it doesn't negate the fact that whenever it was put up, i didn't type it, that it makes no sense under a picture of a stage door, and - I guess this sirt of clinches it - that I now have found the hard copy of the DataLounge post which used that Hill Street Blues line in a sinister post that was by one of the cyberstalkers.  

Please send me that post via e-mail.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2013, 08:00:16 PM
Back from the opening of A Night in Old San Antonio. I worked a sausage booth, and I'm exhausted.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2013, 08:04:43 PM
Glad you enjoyed yourself, KevinH, and really bummed for you about your camera battery.

So, when did Liza and Barbra become friends? Barbra said they were in the New York Times.
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:12:32 PM
I am getting very tired - 
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:13:25 PM
I wonder how TCB is enjoying his cruise
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:14:34 PM
well I am sorry I have to get some sleep
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:15:00 PM
I was hoping to get us to page 5  but I am not sure I weillbe able to make it that far
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Post by: Laura on April 23, 2013, 08:17:54 PM
Good afternoon. I spent the day with a scientist and photographer doing a study in the desert about winged insects. There were many bugs.

 I can honestly say this is one walk with Laura I would cheerfully miss -  bird watching I am all for  (great pictures yesterday BTW)  but bug watching makes me feel itchy

http://www.andthisiswhatisaw.net/2013/04/bugs.html

The photographer got better photos than I did. But I saw some bugs she didn't see.
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Post by: Laura on April 23, 2013, 08:18:42 PM
I may or may not have been stung today. If I was, it wasn't very bad. If I wasn't ... what was that?
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Post by: Laura on April 23, 2013, 08:19:24 PM
And no snakes.
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 08:29:38 PM
I'd printed it out a while ago, they've since taken it down from their site.  (Send me a fax number and I can fax it.)
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Post by: George on April 23, 2013, 08:44:25 PM
Well, I'm finally leaving work.  I got involved in a project and realized that it's very late! 

Off to home.
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:55:10 PM
Good afternoon. I spent the day with a scientist and photographer doing a study in the desert about winged insects. There were many bugs.

 I can honestly say this is one walk with Laura I would cheerfully miss -  bird watching I am all for  (great pictures yesterday BTW)  but bug watching makes me feel itchy

http://www.andthisiswhatisaw.net/2013/04/bugs.html

The photographer got better photos than I did. But I saw some bugs she didn't see.

there are no sipers in those pictures are there?  I can't like those sipers
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:56:18 PM
oh goody we got to page 5!!
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2013, 08:56:40 PM
and it is tomorrwo and the alram goes off in6 hours so goodnught
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Post by: FJL on April 23, 2013, 09:22:13 PM
Tomorrow is only a day away - unless it's here already.
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Post by: Laura on April 23, 2013, 09:29:39 PM
No sipers. I promise.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 10:32:16 PM
I hate sipers.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 23, 2013, 10:32:53 PM
and it is tomorrwo and the alram goes off in6 hours so goodnught

Did we have a nice little toddy to help us nod off?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 10:34:13 PM
Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 10:34:36 PM
I watched some of The Great Gatsby and shall finish it tomorrow.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 10:36:33 PM
Also went to JOS Bank today - they were having a sale again - this time everything 50% off.  I bought four pairs of slacks, really nice slacks.  They'd already been discounted and with the half off on top of that, they were under sixty bucks apiece but when you bought one pair the next pair was fifteen dollars - so two pants cost fifty-nine bucks and the other two cost fifteen each.  Pretty great.  They had to tailor the bottoms, so I won't have them for a week.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 10:36:47 PM
Get me off this damn page.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 11:21:58 PM
This place is DULLSVILLE.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2013, 11:22:17 PM
It used to be so much fun here late at night - what a bunch of WUSSBURGERS.