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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were happy as a malc, and now it is time for you to post until the happy as a malc cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: FRIVOL!
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A question for BK...will Guy Haines be making a guest appearance on Sandy's new BK album?
:)
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Not sure about Guy yet - it's a possibility, though.
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Bad news with Kay Cole - she has a cracked rip and can't do any movement for ten days - so, I may have to finish what's left by myself - this puts a whole other universe of work on my shoulders but we'll do what we have to do. I'm not sure she'll come back at all, but maybe after the ten days she'll be able to come finesse stuff. I have put out an SOS to two choreographer pals, so we'll see if either can step in to help.
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Yikes! :o
~~~Quick Recovery Vibes for Kay Cole!!~~~
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~~~Choreographer Vibes for BK!!~~~
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And now, I must go to sleep.
Good night, all.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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good morning to all
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vibes to Kay Cole
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ASK BK
Last week Dr Singdaw and may suggestions for future soundtrack release via Kritzerland but there was no feedback regarding them.
Singdaw suggested ON GOLDEN POND
I had a little more extensive list
The Promise (Shire)
Norma Rae (Shire)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Various)
The Competition (Scifrin)
That's Life (Mancini
Pieces of Dreams (Legrand)
Lovers and Other Strangers (Karlin)
El Cid (Soundtrack includes exit music with son. not recreation)
Any possibilities?
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A Happy Birthday
William Shakespeare or Billy to his friends
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Today in 1961 a memorable evening at Carnegie Hall occurred
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I hope I don't have to identify the lady
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Quiet please, there's a lady on stage
She may not be the latest rage
But she's singing and she means it
And she deserves a little silence
Quiet please, there's a woman up there
And she's been honest through her songs
Long before your consciousness was raised
Now doesn't that deserve a little praise
So put your hands together and help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation
And give her one last celebration
Quiet please, there's a person up there
Who's singing of the things
That none of us could bear to hear for ourselves
Give her your respect if nothing else
Put your hands together and help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Rise to the occasion
Give her one last celebration
Quiet please, there's a lady on stage
Conductor, turn the final page
When it's over we can all go home
She lives on, on the stage alone
So put your hands together, help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation
And give her one last celebration
Put your hands together and help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Rise for the ovation
Give her one last celebration
Put your hands together, help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Put your hands together, help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation
And won't you give her one last celebration?
Put your hands together and help her along
Let's just stay here all night and let's sing every song
Won't you rise to the occasion?
And won't you give her one last celebration?
Put your hands together, help her along
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Stand, stand for the ovation
Yes, give her one last, just one last celebration
Come on, put your hands together, won't you help her along?
Let's just stay here all night and sing every song
Won't you rise? Can you rise to the occasion?
And give her, a just one last, one last celebration?
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good morning!
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BK this may have been asked and answered, but will the Li'l Abner be videoed for posterity and is there any possibility of DRs who are geographically impaired getting an opportunity to see said Abner?
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Jack I am excitedly looking forward to the arrival of the city of Los Angeles.
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thank you again!
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Ginny girl.... how is your back?
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How did Sandra celebrate her birthday?
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Good morning, all! I slept very well,which was nice for a change. In my last dream, Rob, Payrick, Judy, and I returned to Ireland to do some ROBERTA adjustments, and the big question was whether or not Annalene had been notified. She finally showed up with her daughter Rose, and we had a fantastic reunion. Curiously, my friend DR JRand63 was there.
Speaking of the ROBERTA sessions, I believe Kim Criswell is in town this week, so I look forward to seeing her.
This morning, I've got physical therapy, and one orchestra part to finish, Around 1:00, my former super and his wife will leave for Serbia, and that saddens me. I've als got to call mt dctor and make an appointment; something has developed that could be a cyst, abscess, or tumor, and it needs to be examined ASAP
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Better Day Vibes for our DR vixmom! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good vibes for Kay Cole! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Speaking of birthdays.... somehow this little person (whom some of you may remember meeting)
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has become this person
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/1cf7a4e7-c840-435a-8051-cfbb6715c5e7_zps87c85d3f.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/1cf7a4e7-c840-435a-8051-cfbb6715c5e7_zps87c85d3f.jpg.html)
who will turn 21 next Tuesday
Memories, light the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories of the way we were.
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
smiles we give to one another
for the way we were.
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((((Elmore)))
VIBES of all sorts for you, my friend, and get thee to a physik!!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good vines for Kay Cole! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
which sort of vines are the good ones?
:)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Better Day Vibes for our DR vixmom! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
thank you , my dear! :-* :-*
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Get-well-quick vibes for Kay Cole
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Wishing vixmom a better day today
And what a lovely photo!
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Healing Vibes for Kay Cole
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Choreographer Vibes for BK & Co
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well time to gird my loins and stride forth to slay dragons and whatnot
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Hoping Dan M is OK.
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Choreography vibes to BK from here as well.
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Vibes to all -
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Hope Dan checks in
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good vines for Kay Cole! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
which sort of vines are the good ones?
:)
Goddam typing skills! I've repaired the original.
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Good morning, all.
OMG. VIBES all around. Stat!
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Happy Birthday to William Shakespeare!
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Me, I apparently am ready for a new clutch, at 154,000 miles.
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HB, Bill!
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Me, I apparently am ready for a new clutch, at 154,000 miles.
Well they sure don't make 'em like they used to.
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Better day vibes for DR VIXMOM....LA should be in your mailbox tomorrow.
Healing vibes for Kay Cole......and dance vibes for MR BK.....just choreograph like John Smithee and all will be well.
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I had enough people so that I just went ahead and finished the Havana Scene last night. Now we just have to add Sky Masterson and the three missing caballeros.
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Today in 1961 a memorable evening at Carnegie Hall occurred
(http://encoremag.com/new-york/files/2011/10_comeback_garland_mar2011.jpg)
I hope I don't have to identify the lady
I'm guessing that's the concert that's immortalized on the great Capitol Records album. I was thinking recently it's time to give that one a spin.
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Vibes to all -
Oh yes-- Vibes to all!!!
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Larry, good thoughts to you and your doctor!
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Last night at whatever time it was, I was so damned exhausted that I dropped in just to ketchup on whatever was going on, and as TCB noted, I left without so much as a how-de-do. I remember a couple of people jabbering in Chinese or something, but that's about all. Well, they don't call these Hell Weeks for nothing.
Anyhoo, once home from rehearsal and ketchuping on the morning and afternoon's postings about Blake Edwards and other comic directors who knew what the HELL they were doing, I felt that a little dose of that would be just what the doctor ordered before going to bed. I didn't have a Blake film here that I wanted to see, but someone had also mentioned WHAT'S UP, DOC? and it had been a while since I saw any of that, so I put it on, knowing full well I'd be asleep in front of it within 30 minutes. That turned out to be a good choice, and a pretty good estimate. I kept waking up for tiny moments, to no avail. I finally shut the thing off, went to bed, and was out like a light.
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I don't even remember any damned dreams. I know there was something, but it won't come into focus. No matter.
Today I need to decide on who will get the clutch $$$, and when, and move a teeth cleaning and a doctor's checkup away from this next two weeks of hell. And then I must sit at the keyboard, tweak a few patches, and figure out how to better cover a few passages. And then back to the salt mines this evening. Yes, we're rehearsing in a salt mine. Had I mentioned that part?
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Very sorry to hear about Kay Cole. That is a blow, no question. But if there's one thing I know, it's that
there's no Jack S. like our Jack S. there's no BK like our BK when it comes to resourcefulness in a time of crisis. I do not say that to flatter or be funny. I know this is a loss and a setback, but I am also quite sure it will turn out to be a temporary one.
CHOREOGRAPHING VIBES!
And speedy healing VIBES to Kay Cole!
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Regarding Kay Cole: Quel désastre!
So you're going to have to do the entire Sadie Hawkins sequence on your own? :P
~ ~ ~ QUICK RECOVERY VIBES ~ ~ ~ for Kay, and ~ ~ ~ COPING AND RESOURCEFULNESS VIBES ~ ~ ~ for bk!!!!
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I join my fellow DRs in wishing and hoping that the absence of our dear DR Dan M is not an indication of anything amiss.
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What wonderful shots, DR Vixmom! REALLY hoping that you have a better day today. I mean, how could you not? :)
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~ ~ ~ HEALTH VIBES OF ALL SORTS ~ ~ ~ for DRs Ginny and elmore3003!
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I apparently am ready for a new clutch
I hope this one will do on such short notice:
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And the word of the day is: FRIVOL!
Well, that was FRIVOL-ous!
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Good Morning to All!
TOD:
Who is your favorite actor and why?
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Goodbye for now!!! :) ;) :-*
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PAGE 3 SHAKESPEARE DANCE!
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well time to gird my loins and stride forth to slay dragons and whatnot
I girded my loins once. There wasn't much striding after that. I walked rather oddly for a whole week.
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Good Wednesday morning!
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I can tell I've been lax on wishing others well of late:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Best Wishes and Major Karmic VIBES for all what needs 'em~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I have two episodes left of DOWNTON ABBEY season 3 to go! Then it is on to season 4.
I am ever grateful for my co-worker finally talking me into watching this show.
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Future Kritzerland release idea:
"The Boy Friend" -- complete score as heard in the film.
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I have two episodes left of DOWNTON ABBEY season 3 to go! Then it is on to season 4.
I am ever grateful for my co-worker finally talking me into watching this show.
And congratulations to your co-worker for having so much more influence on you than the dozens of us who have raved about it every year since it debuted!
::)
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Finished the FINAL FINAL G/D Rehearsal Schedule....and so onward we go.
Tonight we see Act One:1-8.....with too many people missing.
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Good morning, all.
Vibes to so many of us, including Vixmom, Kay Cole and Elmore. If I have missed anyone, mea culpa.
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TOD:
BK, I love the Li'l Abner updates and it's obvious you are having the time of your life. Is there any other show that you have not gotten a chance to direct that you would like to?
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I have two episodes left of DOWNTON ABBEY season 3 to go! Then it is on to season 4.
I am ever grateful for my co-worker finally talking me into watching this show.
And congratulations to your co-worker for having so much more influence on you than the dozens of us who have raved about it every year since it debuted!
::)
LOL! Well, I usually count on HHW to supply the bad influence, instead.
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Shayne, nothing on that list is doable at this time.
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TOD:
BK, I love the Li'l Abner updates and it's obvious you are having the time of your life. Is there any other show that you have not gotten a chance to direct that you would like to?
There are a few, including The Music Man, Drat! The Cat!, Annie Get Your Gun.
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I'm up after about seven hours of sleep. Too much to do.
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Home from physical therapy. I stopped at the drug store by the bus stop and bought some necessary items like bandaids and shoelaces.
The super says the supplies have not yet arrived to fix the ceiling and I am getting tired of this mess. I am sick of digging through boxes and bags to find items I need in the bathroom, and I want to clean up the apartment, something I will not do until the clutter is taken care of.
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Vixmom, we will be doing an archival tape of the show - not sure if that will be viewable or not.
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Kay got back to me today - she can be back with us on May 5th, which isn't so terrible, so we've decided that I'll get everything on its feet and she can come back then and finesse anything. We'll be in run-throughs that week so she still has two-and-a-half weeks to play around before we go into tech and that should be fine.
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It just makes every single day or evening from now until then really intense for me in terms of staging every single minute of every single rehearsal, but I've certainly done that before and it's just the way it will be. I'll come right home after tonight's rehearsal and do the Facebook event page for Kritzerland, then spend the rest of the evening sketching out the Sadie Hawkins' Day ballet - the other stuff is easy to do, but that one I have to know what's happening all during it - it's really not going to be anything like the Michael Kidd thing - and because it isn't I'll probably cut a minute or two out of it, as we did with Rag Offen the Bush.
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My prayers to all who need them!
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BK, Thats good news about Kay!!! :) :-* ;)
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EXCELLENT news. Glad to hear it.
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I just said goodbye to my former super and his wife. I think they're happy to be flying back to Serbia but I will miss them enormously.
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Hello all! I have been recovering from a very busy weekend. I'm very sorry that I was unable to check in with everyone here. Today is the first day back to my normal. My normal is what I like to tolerate. No more house guests or appointments.
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I appreciate all of the kind DRs who asked about me, and I especially thank DR vixmom for the lovely PM. I am okay and my health seems to be good. It was just very tiring to have people here and having to attend events.
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As DR singdaw pointed out a day or so ago [I took time to ketchup], it really is quite tiring to "put on" a holiday and to be around others "putting on" a holiday. In some ways that dovetails with trying to hard to make a funny movie, as some discussed in the "don't get the cult status" of a movie, TV show, etc.
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As a reward to myself last night I watched a documentary that I had wanted to see all last year when I was in hospital, ROOM 237.
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Whether or not you are a Kubrickian (or Kubrickite), the documentary is very well done. If you are a fan of Kubrick, it is a lot of fun. The basic take-away is something that I've known for years, and I'm sure you've known this too, is that Jim Nabors is not a straight man. Yes, Andy Griffith was the straight man, so, no real shocker or spoiler there. [as typing stops, tongue is taken out of cheek]
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To revive a topic from 3 days ago, I guess I have always been a Kubrick geek. I can understand why many do not "get" his movies or why he has a cult status. ROOM 237 is a fascinating deconstruction by fans with varied backgrounds and how they have filtered out meanings that may or may not be in Kubrick's version of THE SHINING. Some theories are seemingly better than others, but are no less credible than reading art through a Freudian filter or Marxist filter or whatever is the filter du jour. Is the creator of the art making a self statement, a tangible document of what the brain synapses are at a given moment, or a distillation of the zeitgeist of the time?
I appreciate that really great or idiosyncratic art can be interpreted in many ways. Just look at how many so-called critics have interpreted Grant Wood's "American Gothic" or Whistler's "Mother".
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Of the movies that I can recall, the ones that have attained cult status that I do not like are mainly those by Tarantino and Scorsese. I have never liked any Soderbergh, yes even "Erin Brockovich" because it was just so obvious with Julia Roberts with her "look at me, I'm giving you an Oscar-worthy performance". The only actor with any self-respect in that movie was the great Albert Finney. Had he not been in the film, I would not have agreed to lose 2 hours and 11 minutes of my life span to watch it.
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I also never "got" "Rocky". Pun intended, to me, it was all too ham-fisted. Never liked any Stallone movie.
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I've been a David Lynch fan and "got" the joke in many of his movies, but I think he changed too much since he rejiggered the "Mulholland Drive" miniseries into a feature, which for me was the last Lynchian film he made. I could not sit through "Inland Empire" in one go. I really wanted to.
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There was some mention of Dudley Moore in an earlier discussion from a few days ago. A cult film that I really enjoy each time I see it, is Stanley Donen's BEDAZZLED. The remake with Brendan Fraser, as a comparison, is a good example of what filmmakers have to do to keep their audiences engaged and what BK referenced in the inability of recent vintage movies to develop jokes slowly. The shame of that remake is that Frank Oz was involved with it and from his past work, and even his Muppet work, he would know the importance to build comedy. The Donen BEDAZZLED, screenplay written by Peter Cook, develops some jokes over the entirety of the movie.
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Hello all! I have been recovering from a very busy weekend. I'm very sorry that I was unable to check in with everyone here. Today is the first day back to my normal. My normal is what I like to tolerate. No more house guests or appointments.
It's good to know you are okay.
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Maybe I have never been a follower of the mainstream, so for me, many cult movies are just the antithesis of the pap the studios tend to release over the memorial day weekend. In my adult life, I've only gotten excited about, and made a definite point to go see in the movie theater, a Kubrick, a Woody Allen, a Lynch, or a Wes Anderson. To place all my cards on the table, I do not listen to Top 40 radio and no longer get caught up in TV series ever since the way "Quantum Leap" and "Seinfeld" ended, or even "The Sopranos" for that matter. I have now watched many episodes of "Game of Thrones" and have decided that I am not the target audience. I never followed soap operas either. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just not my bailiwick.
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Hello all! I have been recovering from a very busy weekend. I'm very sorry that I was unable to check in with everyone here. Today is the first day back to my normal. My normal is what I like to tolerate. No more house guests or appointments.
It's good to know you are okay.
Thank you DR elmore!
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In the midst of everything this past weekend, a friend of mine invited me to join her and her family to an Easter brunch at the El Conquistador resort just north of Tucson in Oro Valley. It was a good opportunity for me as it is a place not within my means at this moment in time.
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Thanks DR singdaw!
At your suggestion, I went to the public library and am now listening to Duruflé's "Requiem" which has been paired with FOUR-AY's "Requiem". This recording is by Michel Legrand and the Philharmonia Orchestra, so I'm not sure if this is the one to listen to, or not, as I am new to these pieces.
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Nice to see DR DAN M and Minnie.
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Ceiling supply arrival vibes for DR ELMORE.
I have a Dancing With the Stars rehearsal at 5 p.m. followed by the run thru at 7 p.m......then hopefully we can stage the two numbers from Act One that need work......time will tell.
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Nice to see DR DAN M and Minnie.
Glad to be here with you DR Jrand63!
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I own this. The Legrand recording is quite wonderful: excellent soloists. I love Barbara Bonney and Jennifer Larmore.
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Have you seen Daisy Egan's letter to Ben Brantley? Good for her!
http://www.daisyeagan.com/2014/04/ben-brantley-is-asking-for-it.html?m=1
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Wednesday afternoon greetings! I had a 9:30 coffee visit with my friend Becky that lasted until about 1pm. We hadn't seen each other for more than a month and had a lot to catch up on before she and her husband leave for their boat in Michigan next week. From there I did a library errand and stopped to visit Mom.
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Sorry to hear about BK's choreographer's broken rib, DR Vixmom's bad day, and DR Elmore's latest health concern - vibes to all!
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Have you seen Daisy Egan's letter to Ben Brantley? Good for her!
http://www.daisyeagan.com/2014/04/ben-brantley-is-asking-for-it.html?m=1
Brava. And thanks for posting that Elmore.
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I own this. The Legrand recording is quite wonderful: excellent soloists. I love Barbara Bonney and Jennifer Larmore.
Thanks DR elmore. Coming from you, this is a great recommendation! The soloists have heavenly voices.
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Dan M, I don't dislike Kubrick entirely, though Eyes Wide Shut is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I love the Shining; it may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. And I like a lot of Barry Lyndon in a very weird way. I also really enjoyed Full Metal Jacket.
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Dan M, I don't dislike Kubrick entirely, though Eyes Wide Shut is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I love the Shining; it may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. And I like a lot of Barry Lyndon in a very weird way. I also really enjoyed Full Metal Jacket.
I loved Full Metal Jacket but I disliked much of what he did to the source material in The Shining, which had so many brilliant moments but continually pissed me off.
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OY! Not cracked ribs for Kay!! Sorry, that would be OW plus OY, which I suppose equals YOW!
I know how that feels, having had 7 of them broken at one time. Sadly, there's not much you can do for them except gently try and keep breathing into the area to keep it stretched. Healing vibes for Kay. Choreography vibes for BK!
Finished one reading last night. Rehearsing this Saturday's table read today. In Colorado tomorrow for a one day singing gig (and still wondering how to pay all the bills...what's wrong with that picture).
And I'm sad not to be able to see the new Kritzerland show due to a final rehearsal for the final reading. Boooo!
Ah, well, something's gotta give... soon. :D
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Back from a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich and sweet potato fries and mapping out today's work - things have been a bit confusing in terms of our scheduling, but if I get through everything today, that means act two is blocked except for the final scene and finale. That leaves about three scenes in act one plus the ballet. When you consider that today will only be our sixth day of blocking, two of which were choreography days, I'd say we're in pretty good shape.
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Dan M, I don't dislike Kubrick entirely, though Eyes Wide Shut is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I love the Shining; it may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. And I like a lot of Barry Lyndon in a very weird way. I also really enjoyed Full Metal Jacket.
I loved Full Metal Jacket but I disliked much of what he did to the source material in The Shining, which had so many brilliant moments but continually pissed me off.
I read the book years after seeing the movie.
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Back from a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich and sweet potato fries and mapping out today's work - things have been a bit confusing in terms of our scheduling, but if I get through everything today, that means act two is blocked except for the final scene and finale. That leaves about three scenes in act one plus the ballet. When you consider that today will only be our sixth day of blocking, two of which were choreography days, I'd say we're in pretty good shape.
I could use that grilled cheese and bacon sammich right about now.
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Have you seen Daisy Egan's letter to Ben Brantley? Good for her!
http://www.daisyeagan.com/2014/04/ben-brantley-is-asking-for-it.html?m=1
That was great!
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And I would take those sweet potato fries!!!
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Dan M, I don't dislike Kubrick entirely, though Eyes Wide Shut is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I love the Shining; it may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. And I like a lot of Barry Lyndon in a very weird way. I also really enjoyed Full Metal Jacket.
I loved Full Metal Jacket but I disliked much of what he did to the source material in The Shining, which had so many brilliant moments but continually pissed me off.
I read the book years after seeing the movie.
In 1976, at the age of thirty, I had my tonsils removed, and while i ws recuperating, DR Ginny came to visit me and she brought me the just-released hardcover copy of The Shining. She said something like, I know you like scary books and this is supposed to be quite frightening." So, I started reading it that evening, and i was too afraid to put the book down and turn out the lights. Our house was already alarmingly haunted,and everyone in my family had seen something, heard voices, or been touched, and the damned bok scared the crap out of me. The next day i went down to the Public Library and picked up 'Salem's Lot. which is the second greatest vampire novel ever written.
I believe I saw the Kubrick film on the first day of its release in 1980(?). I had seen the previews, which were wonderful. The movie wasn't as good as the book.
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well time to gird my loins and stride forth to slay dragons and whatnot
I girded my loins once. There wasn't much striding after that. I walked rather oddly for a whole week.
Don't you hate it when that happens??
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Future Kritzerland release idea:
"The Boy Friend" -- complete score as heard in the film.
Yes!! One can always hope.
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BK, Thats good news about Kay!!! :) :-* ;)
Agreed! Very good news!
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Well, since we're so close...
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PAGE FIVE LI'L ABNER DANCE!!
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From DR Jeanne:
Why is Vixmom's typing so much better in Spanish?
;D
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Healing vibes for Kay Cole!!!
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I have two episodes left of DOWNTON ABBEY season 3 to go! Then it is on to season 4.
I am ever grateful for my co-worker finally talking me into watching this show.
And congratulations to your co-worker for having so much more influence on you than the dozens of us who have raved about it every year since it debuted!
::)
LOL !!!! My thoughts exactly :)
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I appreciate all of the kind DRs who asked about me, and I especially thank DR vixmom for the lovely PM. I am okay and my health seems to be good. It was just very tiring to have people here and having to attend events.
It is tiring when one is in the best of health, extremely tiring when one isn't. I'm glad you are good and hope your energy returns soon.
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Dan M, I don't dislike Kubrick entirely, though Eyes Wide Shut is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I love the Shining; it may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. And I like a lot of Barry Lyndon in a very weird way. I also really enjoyed Full Metal Jacket.
EYES WIDE SHUT unfortunately was not fully realized due to Kubrick's death before he could make his final cut. I'm sure no one really knew what Kubrick's final vision would actually have been considering he took so long in post-production as his usual course. I have no doubt that the "official studio release" is not Kubrick's.
That you should mention EWS and BARRY LYNDON, one of my pet theories is that Kubrick deliberately cast Ryan O'Neal as Barry and Tom Cruise as Bill in EWS, as they both have a sexual blandness or artificiality to them upon which the audience can place their own feelings, etc. Particularly playing off their appeal as manly men, they are both reduced to playing impotent men in the films. And to further annoy any number of DRs and lurkers, I would add that Kubrick also chose O'Neal and Cruise for their acting blandness/impotence as dramatic actors so that the more crucial/fulcrum roles played by the character actors would become heightened. Kidman is far more interesting as an actor and as a character in EWS.
From my studies of Kubrick, I think that what most people miss is that he was very humorous, perhaps perversely so. There are many in-jokes, like the O'Neal/Cruise casting, that lend a multiple level read to his movies. In THE SHINING, I learned from the documentary ROOM 237 that Jack is perusing a Playgirl magazine while waiting for Ullman, clearly seen from a frame-by-frame analysis. Kubrick had an interest in subliminals as did DePalma in CARRIE or Friedkin in THE EXORCIST. While you see, you do not observe, and since you do not see, you are left with a cognitive dissonance, but you're not sure why since you could not consciously process what you unconsciously recorded in memory.
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I bruised my ribs once and that was bad enough and took far longer than I expected to heal.
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DR Vixmom, how was your day?
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T.O.D.
ASK BK DAY!
What is it that they do with the green beans at Genghis Cohen that makes them so special??
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DR elmore did you get an appointment with your doctor?
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Today in 1961 a memorable evening at Carnegie Hall occurred
(http://encoremag.com/new-york/files/2011/10_comeback_garland_mar2011.jpg)
I hope I don't have to identify the lady
Kay Ballard?
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Good morning, all! I slept very well,which was nice for a change. In my last dream, Rob, Payrick, Judy, and I returned to Ireland to do some ROBERTA adjustments, and the big question was whether or not Annalene had been notified. She finally showed up with her daughter Rose, and we had a fantastic reunion. Curiously, my friend DR JRand63 was there.
Speaking of the ROBERTA sessions, I believe Kim Criswell is in town this week, so I look forward to seeing her.
This morning, I've got physical therapy, and one orchestra part to finish, Around 1:00, my former super and his wife will leave for Serbia, and that saddens me. I've als got to call mt dctor and make an appointment; something has developed that could be a cyst, abscess, or tumor, and it needs to be examined ASAP
Health vibes for DR elmo!
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Speaking of birthdays.... somehow this little person (whom some of you may remember meeting)
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/vixter2_zps25f66a77.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/vixter2_zps25f66a77.jpg.html)
has become this person
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/1cf7a4e7-c840-435a-8051-cfbb6715c5e7_zps87c85d3f.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/1cf7a4e7-c840-435a-8051-cfbb6715c5e7_zps87c85d3f.jpg.html)
who will turn 21 next Tuesday
NO!! And I haven't even met her.
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
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Me, I apparently am ready for a new clutch, at 154,000 miles.
Shouldn't that be covered under your warranty?
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
I guess he needed a little extra time to write that excellent review.
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It was supposed to rain this morning so my hiking group planned a short walk through and around the park and then we went out to breakfast. We were done shortly after 10 and I couldn't come home until after 1:00 as I had fresh eggs to pick up from the egg lady.
I didn't multiple errands and then went to the gym until a little after 1:00. It is just now beginning to rain. I hope the predicted rain for tomorrow waits until late in the day. I have to take my car to Medford for work that will take at least 3 hours. I usually walk to the mall and then walk to See's Candy & Barnes and Noble & Baskin Robbins. I need to walk to burn off the calories I'm going to eat, and I will. I just prefer not to do it in the pouring rain, especially if I'm carrying packages.
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Nice review! DR TCB, does this play not cover Amy marrying Laurie or Beth's death? There's s much ground covered in the novel, and I see no mention of Mr March's return from the South.
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Congrats to TCB
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Wonderful to know you're OK, Dan M!
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Wonderful to know you're OK, Dan M!
Thanks so much DR FJL!
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Very nice review for LITTLE WOMEN!
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It was supposed to rain this morning so my hiking group planned a short walk through and around the park and then we went out to breakfast. We were done shortly after 10 and I couldn't come home until after 1:00 as I had fresh eggs to pick up from the egg lady.
I didn't multiple errands and then went to the gym until a little after 1:00. It is just now beginning to rain. I hope the predicted rain for tomorrow waits until late in the day. I have to take my car to Medford for work that will take at least 3 hours. I usually walk to the mall and then walk to See's Candy & Barnes and Noble & Baskin Robbins. I need to walk to burn off the calories I'm going to eat, and I will. I just prefer not to do it in the pouring rain, especially if I'm carrying packages.
You get your eggs from the egg lady. I prefer to get mine from chickens.
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Nice review! DR TCB, does this play not cover Amy marrying Laurie or Beth's death? There's s much ground covered in the novel, and I see no mention of Mr March's return from the South.
No, this play ends with Laurie and grandpa heading off to Europe. Beth is on her deathbed in the final scene, and no, Mr. March does not return in this version.
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Nice review! DR TCB, does this play not cover Amy marrying Laurie or Beth's death? There's s much ground covered in the novel, and I see no mention of Mr March's return from the South.
No, this play ends with Laurie and grandpa heading off to Europe. Beth is on her deathbed in the final scene, and no, Mr. March does not return in this version.
That's 'cause March goes out like a lamb. :D
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Nice review, TCB!
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Very nice, Tom. :)
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Nice review! DR TCB, does this play not cover Amy marrying Laurie or Beth's death? There's s much ground covered in the novel, and I see no mention of Mr March's return from the South.
No, this play ends with Laurie and grandpa heading off to Europe. Beth is on her deathbed in the final scene, and no, Mr. March does not return in this version.
Sounds like it's just the first act...does it feel incomplete?
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It was supposed to rain this morning so my hiking group planned a short walk through and around the park and then we went out to breakfast. We were done shortly after 10 and I couldn't come home until after 1:00 as I had fresh eggs to pick up from the egg lady.
I didn't multiple errands and then went to the gym until a little after 1:00. It is just now beginning to rain. I hope the predicted rain for tomorrow waits until late in the day. I have to take my car to Medford for work that will take at least 3 hours. I usually walk to the mall and then walk to See's Candy & Barnes and Noble & Baskin Robbins. I need to walk to burn off the calories I'm going to eat, and I will. I just prefer not to do it in the pouring rain, especially if I'm carrying packages.
You get your eggs from the egg lady. I prefer to get mine from chickens.
Yes, and stopping to collect my eggs can be very entertaining.
Today Honker, the mini donkey, was rolling back and forth in the dirt when I pulled up. As soon as I stopped the car he ran to the fence for me to pet him. When I walked away to get my eggs he loudly lived up to his name protesting I had left. After I got my eggs I stopped and pet him again and while I was doing so one of the Peacocks in the tree let out loud screeching noises which kind of sound like a howling cat to me. The sheep & horses were quiet today :)
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Today in 1961 a memorable evening at Carnegie Hall occurred
(http://encoremag.com/new-york/files/2011/10_comeback_garland_mar2011.jpg)
I hope I don't have to identify the lady
Kay Ballard?
Mitzi Gaynor.
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Very nice, Tom. :)
Guess we'd better call you RTCB to make sure we include redoubtable.
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Six!
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Nice review! DR TCB, does this play not cover Amy marrying Laurie or Beth's death? There's s much ground covered in the novel, and I see no mention of Mr March's return from the South.
No, this play ends with Laurie and grandpa heading off to Europe. Beth is on her deathbed in the final scene, and no, Mr. March does not return in this version.
Sounds like it's just the first act...does it feel incomplete?
Maybe it's designed to get you to read the novel.
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DR Cilla a Jesuit school in Portland will be auctioning off a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy and the Berner community is in an uproar. Included in the letter the president of the Oregon club sent the school are the rules about this stated by the AKC. I would like to send them to that group in your city that does the auction.
The American Kennel Club has the following posted on their web site:
Auction Policy (July 2003 Board meeting)
The Board reviewed its policy on Auctions, considering the recommendations of the High Volume Breeders Committee. Following a motion by Mrs. Strand, seconded by Mr. Gladstone, it was VOTED (unanimously) to revise AKC policy on auctions to read as follows:
1. "The American Kennel Club considers auctions and raffles not to be reasonable and appropriate methods to obtain or transfer dogs." (Note: items 1 and 2 have been reversed in order, but no wording has been altered).
2. "AKC's current inspection program shall include kennels/individuals offering dogs for sale at auctions."
3. "Any dog sold at auctions that is under 8 weeks of age or without microchip identification will be ineligible for AKC registration and shall be placed on permanent referral."
4. "The American Kennel Club discourages Parent Club rescue groups from purchasing dogs at auctions. Although Parent Clubs may be doing good things for individual dogs purchased at auctions, it perpetuates the problem and tends to create a seller's market. Reciprocally, auctioneers seek more dogs of those breeds to offer at auctions. AKC applauds the work of Parent Club rescue groups on many fronts. However, AKC believes that the purchasing of dogs at auctions is not overall in the best interest of purebred dogs."
Our parent club, the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America, also requires their members to adhere to the following regarding auctions:
BMDCA members agree to:
• D) ensure to their best ability that all dogs they place are not brokered, wholesaled or consigned through a pet shop, auction or other commercial establishment; and are not offered as prizes in contests, raffles or fundraising events.
These policies are in the best interests of the dog. Buying a dog at auction provides no protection for the puppy that it will be well cared for, will receive proper veterinary care, or that the owner knows anything about how to raise a puppy.
The bond between a responsible breeder and new owner ensures that these issues will be addressed and that any questions the owner may have can be quickly answered by the breeder. If at any time the new owner cannot properly care for the puppy, or it develops serious health issues later in life (which is a concern for BMDs) a responsible breeder will take the dog back with no questions asked. Can the person who offered the BMD for auction make this same guarantee? Will that breeder be available to mentor the new owner in raising the puppy?
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DR Jennifer I'm reading "Demolition Angel" by Robert Crais. I think you would like the heroine in this. I know, you have tons of books to read but check it out anyway.
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Have you seen Daisy Egan's letter to Ben Brantley? Good for her!
http://www.daisyeagan.com/2014/04/ben-brantley-is-asking-for-it.html?m=1
Good for her!
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DR Jennifer I'm reading "Demolition Angel" by Robert Crais. I think you would like the heroine in this. I know, you have tons of books to read but check it out anyway.
It it a standalone or an Elvis Cole?
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Stand alone. I'm enjoying it.
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DR John thank you for asking me if it was a Cole book. I have been waiting for my library to get the 5th book, Voodoo River. I checked and I am now able to request they get this book-progress :)
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DR Cilla a Jesuit school in Portland will be auctioning off a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy and the Berner community is in an uproar. Included in the letter the president of the Oregon club sent the school are the rules about this stated by the AKC. I would like to send them to that group in your city that does the auction.
The American Kennel Club has the following posted on their web site:
Auction Policy (July 2003 Board meeting)
The Board reviewed its policy on Auctions, considering the recommendations of the High Volume Breeders Committee. Following a motion by Mrs. Strand, seconded by Mr. Gladstone, it was VOTED (unanimously) to revise AKC policy on auctions to read as follows:
1. "The American Kennel Club considers auctions and raffles not to be reasonable and appropriate methods to obtain or transfer dogs." (Note: items 1 and 2 have been reversed in order, but no wording has been altered).
2. "AKC's current inspection program shall include kennels/individuals offering dogs for sale at auctions."
3. "Any dog sold at auctions that is under 8 weeks of age or without microchip identification will be ineligible for AKC registration and shall be placed on permanent referral."
4. "The American Kennel Club discourages Parent Club rescue groups from purchasing dogs at auctions. Although Parent Clubs may be doing good things for individual dogs purchased at auctions, it perpetuates the problem and tends to create a seller's market. Reciprocally, auctioneers seek more dogs of those breeds to offer at auctions. AKC applauds the work of Parent Club rescue groups on many fronts. However, AKC believes that the purchasing of dogs at auctions is not overall in the best interest of purebred dogs."
Our parent club, the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America, also requires their members to adhere to the following regarding auctions:
BMDCA members agree to:
• D) ensure to their best ability that all dogs they place are not brokered, wholesaled or consigned through a pet shop, auction or other commercial establishment; and are not offered as prizes in contests, raffles or fundraising events.
These policies are in the best interests of the dog. Buying a dog at auction provides no protection for the puppy that it will be well cared for, will receive proper veterinary care, or that the owner knows anything about how to raise a puppy.
The bond between a responsible breeder and new owner ensures that these issues will be addressed and that any questions the owner may have can be quickly answered by the breeder. If at any time the new owner cannot properly care for the puppy, or it develops serious health issues later in life (which is a concern for BMDs) a responsible breeder will take the dog back with no questions asked. Can the person who offered the BMD for auction make this same guarantee? Will that breeder be available to mentor the new owner in raising the puppy?
Well, I get it and I was concerned when I first heard about our auction, but I have to say, the least amount of money I've seen one of the dogs go for was well over $20,000.00. The dogs are all cared for and housed with a local vet before the auction and I'm sure there is follow-up afterward. Last year four or five of the previous dogs were back all clearly pampered and loved.
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I am glad it has gone well there. If it were a Berner I would have tons of questions about the background and health checks of the dog and if the breeder is also doing a follow up. Does the pup stay at the vets house or in a kennel? I have to question a breeder that would let it be kenneled. If something happens has the breeder agreed to take the dog back-so many questions about the ethics of the breeder.
The Portland, and beyond, Bernese community is really on this one. They should have stuck with labs ;)
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'night
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I am glad it has gone well there. If it were a Berner I would have tons of questions about the background and health checks of the dog and if the breeder is also doing a follow up. Does the pup stay at the vets house or in a kennel? I have to question a breeder that would let it be kenneled. If something happens has the breeder agreed to take the dog back-so many questions about the ethics of the breeder.
The Portland, and beyond, Bernese community is really on this one. They should have stuck with labs ;)
Oh they are very particular about where they get the dogs. Personally, I think they should use rescue dogs, but that's just me. I believe the puppies either stay with the vet or the vet assistant, they are well taken care of.
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Night, Jane.
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I won my bird in a raffle through a bird club. Of course, I have taken care of J.B. for 20 years or so. Who knows if someone else would have treated him better or worse.
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Whew! Better late than never. The review is up by the critic who returned for Sunday's performance, after originally trying to attend Saturday's cancelled performance.
http://michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/2014/04/little-women-at-tacoma-youth-theatre.html
Nice review! DR TCB, does this play not cover Amy marrying Laurie or Beth's death? There's s much ground covered in the novel, and I see no mention of Mr March's return from the South.
No, this play ends with Laurie and grandpa heading off to Europe. Beth is on her deathbed in the final scene, and no, Mr. March does not return in this version.
Sounds like it's just the first act...does it feel incomplete?
No, I don't think so.
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Speaking of birthdays.... somehow this little person (whom some of you may remember meeting)
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/vixter2_zps25f66a77.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/vixter2_zps25f66a77.jpg.html)
has become this person
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/1cf7a4e7-c840-435a-8051-cfbb6715c5e7_zps87c85d3f.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/1cf7a4e7-c840-435a-8051-cfbb6715c5e7_zps87c85d3f.jpg.html)
who will turn 21 next Tuesday
NO!! And I haven't even met her.
what is most surprising is that I haven't changed at all!
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Today was a much better day
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Vixdad had to work late and the Vixter was home so she and I went to the new Chinese Buffet for dinner
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Today was a much better day
:)
I am so glad!
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DR Jennifer I'm reading "Demolition Angel" by Robert Crais. I think you would like the heroine in this. I know, you have tons of books to read but check it out anyway.
I will look it up.
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Great notice for DR TCB, or DR RTCB, and great also that the reviewer recognizes the great background purpose behind the program.
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wonderful review RTCB!!!
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sorry to wussburger but I sleepy
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Good evening.
(as only Alfred Hitchcock could say it)
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I must call it a night, meself. I guess I could see what's on TCM that might be good to fall asleep to, but other than that, I'm not going to try to watch anything.
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Watching "The Wrong Box." It's rather slow.
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The Wrong Box! I saw that as a kid, at a drive-in with my family, and I think I was sort of amused by it, but I haven't come into contact with it since.
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I won my bird in a raffle through a bird club. Of course, I have taken care of J.B. for 20 years or so. Who knows if someone else would have treated him better or worse.
Or he has taken care of you.
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Great notice for DR TCB, or DR RTCB, and great also that the reviewer recognizes the great background purpose behind the program.
Thanks everyone. Yes, I am very happy that the reviewer recognized the work that Scott and Maggie are doing for the community. They need the good press.
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Seven!
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I won my bird in a raffle through a bird club. Of course, I have taken care of J.B. for 20 years or so. Who knows if someone else would have treated him better or worse.
Or he has taken care of you.
Exactly.
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The Vixter's birthday is May 6? That was my grandmother's birthday.
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So everyone is turning into a wussburger tonight.
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Finally back from rehearsal - second day I wasn't able to get to the post office to pick up whatever's there - hopefully tomorrow, although I have a meeting at 12:00, so who knows. I got through almost everything that was scheduled and let me tell you, it was a LOT, especially the society ball scene, which is ten pages of nothing but action. There are almost no stage directions of any worth, so I just did it beat by beat, cleaned it up, went on, watched it, cleaned it up, went on and by the end of it we had what I think is a very fun sequence that is very clear in its storytelling.
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Poor Mammy Yokum accidentally got kicked in the jaw by Pappy doing one of his side leaps into Abner's arms - her jaw is sore, but she's been icing it since it happened, so hopefully she'll be fine by tomorrow's rehearsal. I told her if it was bad in the morning that she needed to go to the ER just for safety's sake.
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Poor Mammy Yokum accidentally got kicked in the jaw by Pappy doing one of his side leaps into Abner's arms - her jaw is sore, but she's been icing it since it happened, so hopefully she'll be fine by tomorrow's rehearsal. I told her if it was bad in the morning that she needed to go to the ER just for safety's sake.
How odd.
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Good night, all.
Peaceful dreams for Mammy Yokum.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Page seven? Really?
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Well, it is a cruisin' Wednesday night.
;)
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Tonight's "Chamber Music" rehearsal went quite well. Only one little passage got skipped, but they won't have a problem tomorrow. Otherwise, they're all doing really well.
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I ran the lights and the sound tonight. There are only five light cues and seven sound cues. VERY easy. :D
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Tomorrow is our final dress and pay-what-you-can preview rehearsal. Then we open!