Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on October 01, 2004, 12:00:32 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you know all about our prancing about in socks and pantaloons and our month-long celebration, so now it is time to post until the October Cows come home.
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I'm not prancing about - but I tried to post in the last batch to respond to FS Pogue about Bush's story about the poor woman (Cissy?) in the debates. That was a lowpoint even for Bush. Calling it manipulative (unsuccessfully manipulative) and REALLY stupid wouldn't be doing it justice.
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I must be drunk on Oktoberfest brew. I used "about" 50 times in my last post.
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I kept falling asleep today. And now - surprise - I'm not sleepy.
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Car CD player: Guys and Dolls, the '92 revival recording, and A New Brain, which is kinda neat because Kristen Chenoweth is doing chorus work through the whole thing, paying her dues.
DVD: Still working on the Darth Lucas Star Wars set. The fourth disc is interesting, with the featurettes. But I haven't figured out where the easter eggs are located, and I've read there's a blooper reel hidden in there somewhere.
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Since I will be seeing Karen Mason and Jason Graae on Sunday I will be listening to them in the car Cd player and in the home.
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Jay:
In response to your question of the 1929 Show Boat.
It is a part talkie version. It really is a hybrid of the stage musical and the novel. It mixes songs from the score and new songs written for the film.
Universal released the film,
from the imdb website
Universal had originally intended to release the part-talkie version with authentic black spirituals and work songs only. When they realized that this could potentially backfire on them, they obtained the rights to the Kern-Hammerstein musical, incorporated some of the score into the film, reshot two scenes so that Laura La Plante could "sing" (with a dubbed singing voice) two hits from the score of the Broadway show, and, finally, in desperation, filmed a two-reel prologue in which three stars from the stage version of "Show Boat" sang five numbers from the show, two of them being the ones that Ms. La Plante performed in the film. The strategy did not work, and the 1929 film version of "Show Boat" was not successful.
Some of the other songs not written by Kern and Hammerstein
"Down South"
(Ravenal's Theme Song)
Music by William H. Middleton
Lyrics by Sigmund Spaeth
Information on vocal not available
"Deep River"
Traditional
Sung by Eva Olivotti dubbing Laura La Plante
"I've Got Shoes"
Traditional
Sung by Eva Olivotti dubbing Laura La Plante
"Coon, Coon, Coon"
by Leo Friedman and Gene Jefferson
Sung by Eva Olivotti dubbing Laura La Plante
"Ol' Man River"
Sung by Eva Olivotti dubbing Laura La Plante
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"
Sung by Eva Olivotti dubbing Laura La Plante
"The Lonesome Road"
Music by Nathaniel Shilkret
Lyrics by Gene Austin
Sung by Jules Bledsoe dubbing Stepin Fetchit
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And don't forget about the 1989 Papermill Playhouse production that was filmed for PBS in 1989. I guess as close to an archival recording of the show one is going to get.
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Car CD player: Guys and Dolls, the '92 revival recording, and A New Brain, which is kinda neat because Kristen Chenoweth is doing chorus work through the whole thing, paying her dues.
DVD: Still working on the Darth Lucas Star Wars set. The fourth disc is interesting, with the featurettes. But I haven't figured out where the easter eggs are located, and I've read there's a blooper reel hidden in there somewhere.
Hidden Features Website
Star Wars Trilogy
On 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Lucasfilm’s release of the original 'Star Wars Trilogy' you can once again find a cool little hidden feature.
To find it insert the fourth disc of the set, the one containing all the special features. From the Main Menu go to the 'Video Games and Still Galleries' section. On the following screen use your remote control to type '11' and then press the 'Enter' key. Depending on your DVD player model you may have to press the '10+' and then the '1' key. Next, type '3' followed by the 'Enter' key and then '8' once again followed by 'Enter.' This will give you access to an almost 5-minute long blooper reel with the DVD credits, consisting of hilarious clips from all three films.
All three movies also have three different kinds of menus that are selected at random when you boot up the disc. If you want to switch to any particular menu set, you can do so with a little trick, too. To get the first menu, simply press the 'Audio' button on your remote control while the FBI logo is visible. To boot up the second menu, press the '2' button during the FBI screen and in order to get to the third menu layout, press '12' – it may be '10+' and '2' depending on your player – and then press the '2' button once again. This Easter Egg is a contribution from our reader Terribly Mauled and Drew Denson
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Another picture from the Science Museum. Anthony in a "You are Here" pose.
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Right now I'm listening to Patti LuPone Matters of the Heart. It's a BK Executive Produced Varese Sarabande CD. I also have The American Songbook Series Dorothy Fields, a compilation CD ranging from early recorded performances of Field's songs to Maureen McGovern doing Make the Man Love Me. I have the original Broadway cast (Robert Alda, et. al.) of Guys and Dolls. Also at work, Tony Randall's Oh Captain and Cole Porter's Aladdin, a recording of the DuPont Show of the Month, broadcast on CBS Television on February 21, 1958. It features the vocal talents of Sal Mineo (not Sal Simbulan), Cyril Ritchard and Anna Maria Alberghetti (Geoffrey Holder is also in the cast). I am well stocked for work today.
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I loves October! It's always been my favorite month. The cool crisp air. The beautiful palette changes in the foilage. Everyone seems a little more positive, purposeful and energetic. While September usually brings to me feelings of new beginnings, October is the time when those beginnings seem to actually come into play. I love it!
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DTM, you are the proud owner of message 68,000
345 68000 Today at 05:39:37am in Re:OCTOBERFEST
by Dan (the Man)
It will be gone when I post this but you hit a mark. Maybe it's because October is smiling on you.
I didn't capture the screen quite so beautifully, but you get the picture.
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CDs: a demo of a musical called Spin; Wicked
Listeing to Wicked is a chore (in more ways than one). I'm part of an interview with the composer on Monday. Someone I know is writing a book about the making of Wicked, and, feeling unversed in the language of music, has invited three composers to pepper Schwartz with questions. And so I must listen. I liked the show on stage but find the CD hard to get into.
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DTM, you are the proud owner of message 68,000
345 68000 Today at 05:39:37am in Re:OCTOBERFEST
by Dan (the Man)
It will be gone when I post this but you hit a mark. Maybe it's because October is smiling on you.
I didn't capture the screen quite so beautifully, but you get the picture.
Coolio!
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And don't forget about the 1989 Papermill Playhouse production that was filmed for PBS in 1989. I guess as close to an archival recording of the show one is going to get.
Plus the Drabinsky/Prince version, archived at the Lincoln Center library, of course.
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What is with all the ads for "Heel Pain" and "toe pads" at the top of this here site?
CD - 2 recently released "first time on CD" reissues of LPs: the 2 CD Jacques Brel singing most of the songs that ended up in JB IS ALIVE... and a few others; and Blossom Dearie sings Broadway.
DVD - More old television - "December Bride" (still a delight) and for nostalgia purposes "Super Circus" with Claude Kirschner and Mary Heartland
VHS - Nothing
And speaking of old tv on DVDs, they are going to release season-by-season sets of MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY, but starting with Season 5, Marjorie Lord's first season! None of the Jean Hagen years will be included.
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finally, in desperation, filmed a two-reel prologue in which three stars from the stage version of "Show Boat" sang five numbers from the show, two of them being the ones that Ms. La Plante performed in the film. The strategy did not work, and the 1929 film version of "Show Boat" was not successful.
I'm hoping this "prologue" is shown since it's the only filmed documentation of Tess Gardella, who played Queenie in blackface.
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CDs: a demo of a musical called Spin; Wicked
Listeing to Wicked is a chore (in more ways than one). I'm part of an interview with the composer on Monday. Someone I know is writing a book about the making of Wicked, and, feeling unversed in the language of music, has invited three composers to pepper Schwartz with questions. And so I must listen. I liked the show on stage but find the CD hard to get into.
I do, too, and feel the same about the recordings of almost all of Schwartz's shows. It seems to me that when it comes time to record one of his shows, Schwartz flexes his arms and manages to get the recording producer to emphasize only the music and stripping out any feeling of personality and theatricality that the score has in performance. As a result, his recordings are on the sterile side and his music is not nearly as interesting as it is in the theatre.
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One of the powers-that-be from Chicago was in town for a faculty meeting, and I anticipated that I'd have to scream (or just talk sternly) at him about the lack of support and lack of publicity that leads to our classes being cancelled right and left, at the last possible moment, because we don't have the minimal enrolment.
To nobody's great surprised, he announced that the school will be going out of business. Our "parent" is a for-profit company that's clearly unwilling to invest the funds to run an outpost in New York. For years, we've been doing it on the cheap - so cheap, in fact, that nobody knows we're here.
And, as fall ends, the public perception will be correct. We're not here.
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Good morning, all! I have to hit 14th Street now and work on more Eubie Blake today. I didn't realize the 1929 silent film of SHOW BOAT incorporated songs from the score; I thought that was only in the prologue of scenes from the Broadway production. Interesting.
Media report:
CD: Menotti operas: AMAHL (crutches, ya know), THE TELEPHONE and THE MEDIUM, Delibes' SYLVIA and COPPELIA. Guy Haines His Way ("Here You Come Again" kept me happy for the past two months' misery).
DVD: I don't know yet, maybe NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
VCR: nothing
Have a great day, all! I'll be back this afternoon after I start the laundry.
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I haven't seen Wicked (it plays Toronto in the spring), but have come to enjoy the CD thoroughly. (It did take awhile.) For this CD I tend to use the Random mode - I like the unexpected juxtapositions of the songs. I find the score theatrical enough, and now feel I know the characters quite well.
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Noel, is this the Circle-in-the-Square theatre school that arose (or stayed around, I'm not sure) out of the ashes of the old Circle-in-the-Square Theatre Company?
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I haven't read the notes yet because I wanted to answer DR Jay's question about SHOW BOAT, but I see DR Michael Shayne and others have beat me to the punch. Let me just add, DR MBarnum, that this 1929 version is the one I would LEAST want you to see. I've had the three SHOW BOATS on laserdisc for a long time, and after watching that first one once, I had NO interest ever in seeing it again. The wonderful thing about the 1951 SHOW BOAT in the laserdisc boxed set is that one can choose to have either Ava Gardner's real vocals as Julie or Annette Warren's dubbed vocals which were used in the theatrical release. Why they didn't do this for the DVD release, I'll never know.
The 1936 James Whale directed version is certainly the most faithful to the show, and has incomparable performances from Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, and Paul Robeson, among others. But the slickness of the 1951 version, and William Warfield's unmatched singing on "Ol' Man River" still make it my choice.
Now, back to read the notes.
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The Me Me Me Media Check
CD Player (at home): Brian Wilson--Smile. OMG, this is awful! The music critics were falling over themselves this week praising this CD as the second coming, but to me it's loud, unvaring noise. I don't know how (or why) I listened to the whole thing.
CD Player (at work) Sissor Sisters. Now this is good music!
DVD Player: Nothing, actually.
VHS: Nothing there, either.
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Thank you, Dear Readers elmore 3003, Michael Shayne and MattH for the 411 on the 1929 Showboat. I learned something today.
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I do feel it is my duty to declare for the record that my house has just not been the same without the pitter-patter of the feet of Dear Reader Jose.
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Pitter, patter, what's the matter with me?
Pitter, patter, rain is all that I see.
Where is my raincoat? It's here somewhere.
Why wear a raincoat? The weather's fair.
But ever since I saw him depart
It's been raining, raining in my heart.
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I do, too, and feel the same about the recordings of almost all of Schwartz's shows. It seems to me that when it comes time to record one of his shows, Schwartz flexes his arms and manages to get the recording producer to emphasize only the music and stripping out any feeling of personality and theatricality that the score has in performance. As a result, his recordings are on the sterile side and his music is not nearly as interesting as it is in the theatre.
That's certainly true about PIPPIN which has no theatrical flavor to it at all. But I don't think that's true with the WICKED cast recording. And I find it very easy to get into. Loved it from the first moment I heard it.
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Mr. Porter's television soundtrack for Aladdin did little to impress. I like the Supermarket in Old Peking number but I didn't find much else about to listen again.
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Well, I can't leave us dangling here like this at the end of Page 1.
Poof, we've moved on.
To Page 2.
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Friday Media Check:
CD - NUNCRACKERS (OCR) : yes, once again this week it's on the player. I will be auditioning for potentially two different productions of the show over the next two weeks.
DVR - last night's WILL & GRACE
DVD - PEYTON PLACE
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WEL mentioning DECEMBER BRIDE reminded me how much I loved this show. I also met a writer on-line a couple of weeks ago who's doing a biography of Verna Felton. Has been granted all her papers by her estate, and though many people might not know who she is, I for one can't wait to read about this wonderfully funny character actress.
And even if you never saw DECEMBER BRIDE, many of you may know her from her voice work in Disney cartoons including the fairy godmother in CINDERELLA and good fairy Flora (the one who preferred pink) in SLEEPING BEAUTY.
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Noel, is this the Circle-in-the-Square theatre school that arose (or stayed around, I'm not sure) out of the ashes of the old Circle-in-the-Square Theatre Company?
No, the Circle-in-the-Square Theatre School is alive and kicking. It's been in continual operation for over 40 years and shows every indication that it will continue.
You're correct that its sister organization, the Circle-in-the-Square Theatre Company, died in the late 1990s.
No, the school I'm obliquely referring to is far more famous (as a theatre company, not a school), but, since all the students haven't heard the annoucement yet and we're still trying to get people to sign up for our final performance class, I can't mention the name.
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Elmore thank you for the background on the Wellington. I may see someone famous there but it doesn’t mean I will recognize the someone. ;D
Panni was the photo taken with your new camera? The poster looks great.
Bruce, while browsing through a book store I would pick up your new book and check it out, and of course purchase it. Nice cover and title. :D
It has been interesting reading the comments regarding the debate. So far we have only watched the first hour. For the first half hour it seems to us that Bush was winning. Honestly, we don’t like either of these people.
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Keith and I were still in our pajamas this morning, just doing work around the house before getting dressed when our thoughts were interrupted by the doorbell. :-* We completely forgot someone was coming to do work inside this morning. Lucky for us the doorbell is at the bottom of our long driveway, with a gate. By the time the car was up the driveway we were dressed and I was clearing out the area he is now working in. ;D
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DR DIT, I love that SONG from DAMES AT SEA.
Now I'll probably be singing it all day. :)
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DR Jennifer,
If you're singing it all day, just be careful when you get to the line, "Where are my rubbers?"
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Media Check:
CD: Now That's What I Call Arabia volume 1 and 2( a compilation of current pop hits from Arabian-ish countries)
DVD: Earthworm Tractors (1936) starring comedian Joe E. Brown. I really enjoy Joe E. Brown, but this was not one of his best films, unfortunately!
VHS: Various Dick Foran westerns
And the Bollywood movie for this weekend (which I have already watched) is:
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayee (1960). Story of a nurse who falls in love with a married doctor (whose wife is quite vicious!). Very good move with some wonderful tunes, it stars Raj Kumar and Meena Kumari who starred in JRand54's favorite Bollywood film Pakeezah!
(http://216.247.121.93/dvdImages/b3325.jpg)
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The Wellington, never stayed there, but I had friends who did when I was living in NY in 1969. Here's a question: Whatever happened to Beef Wellington? It was quite popular when I was growing up (and quite pricey) and I had it several times and loved it. I haven't recalled seeing it on a menu in the last twenty years.
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I spoke to Canada Post yesterday and they are sending me a check for $25. My brother-in-law's sister has just moved to Iqualuit (WAY NORTH of Quebec in Nunavut). And her postal code does not appear in my post office's system.
However, it is in the Canada post website's system and when I calculated the price of a parcel i sent to her, I got $25, but when I got to the post office they got $50 (they had to use the other Iqaluit PO BOX postal code).
The woman from Canada Post said that she would contact my post office and get the new postal code put in the system. And that she would send me a check.
The thing is, and I didn't want to ask ... why didn't she wonder WHY the price would be double from one PO building to the next. THEY ARE NEXT DOOR TO EACH OTHER.
I mean technically I knew I would win my point, because when she punched in the dimensions and the correct postal code she got $25. But inside I was dying to find out, why one building would be one price, and next door would be double.
I can't believe it never occured to her to try to find this out. Anyhow I don't care, as long as the one I"m sending it to is less. But how ridiculous. Now i just have to hope that the postal code gets put in the system before I have to send up the Christmas box.
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DR Jose or any other DRs in the area, will any of you be going to see LaChiusa's new musical in DC, THE HIGHEST YELLOW? Have you heard anything about it?
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I don't think I've ever had beef wellington.
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And Verna Felton did a lot of radio too... she played Red Skelton's Grandmother and Dennis Day's mother among other things.
I don't know if it's still in print, but for the 50th Anniversary of the original SHOW BOAT opening, Miles Kruger wrote a wonderful book which was a history of the show. There is a chart listing songs added and subtracted to and from all major productions and films to that date. I'd love to see an updated new edition since there have been 2 Broadway revisals and a television version since the original book was published.
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Whatever happened to Beef Wellington?
Beef Wellington is the specialty of the house at a lovely bistro in Green-wich Village (ooooh, an ON THE TOWN/WONDERFUL TOWN double reference!). It is quite delicious there.
I have actually made Beef Wellington for a small dinner party. It was fine, but two (of the four) pieces of beef got a bit too seared while I was going through that step. Therefore, the baking "done them in" (oooh, an almost MY FAIR LADY reference!). Thankfully, one of them was for the Dear Partner, who was fine with it (as he would be with a piece of shoe leather and some ketchup), and I of course took the other too well done piece.
Always delightful in its presentation (or at least a surprise to most guests), I was surprised at how simple it was to prepare. (Except for my over-searing, of course.)
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Poof, we've moved on.
Who you calling a poof? ;)
(Did it really take this long for someone to respond to an opening like that?)
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And here is my choice for my second Bollywood movie for the weekend (courtesy of Fed Ex who just delivered it).
OM (2004). Don't know anything about the movie and the cast seems to be made up of newcomers...I just liked t he cover and am sure it will be a wonderful movie! LOL!
(http://www.erosentertainment.com/erospromos/eros_us/Product/image_b/om1_bcopy.jpg)
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I'm back from getting a million tests done for my annual (well - longer than annual) check-up. I must say that I wasn't looking forward to what I thought would be the typical LA hospital situation. Compared to Boulder, that is, where it was usually a short wait and quite civilized. I was very pleasantly surprised. There was NO waiting, everything went like clockwork. The technician even managed to take a LOT of blood out of me without messing up (they usually do - I have small veins and have on occasion been poked 3 or 4 times before they hit the jackpot). Anyway, I've now been probed and poked and worn various fashionable hospital robes -- and am now ready to EAT. I had to fast for this grand morning and was really wanting a bran muffin as my reward. I CRAVED a bran muffin. Do you think I could find one anywhere? No. I'm now back home still hungry. But I'll have to settle, I guess.
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Good Morning! Wel... Good Afternoon!
Hmmm... Maybe I do have some jetlag. I didn't get out of bed until shortly after 1:00PM - I waited until after the hourly NPR news was over. I have a feeling something is going on with my sinuses. Nothing major, just inconvenient.
Well, I've read the Notes. I've read the posts. And now it's time to respond...
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Jane - No. The pic was taken with my phone camera. I haven't sat down yet to try and figure out my new one.
Jane 2- Good news. My long lost friend the singer/comedienne is doing another show at the same location this Sunday and i've got reservations! I'm excited.
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There is a wonderful thing known as a supermarket. In them, at least at Von's and Gelson's, both nearby to dear reader Panni, are bran muffins galore, and they are quite tasty. Also, one can find bran muffins at Winchell's, also nearby.
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I do feel it is my duty to declare for the record that my house has just not been the same without the pitter-patter of the feet of Dear Reader Jose.
<blush>
...Well, you know I can make it up to Dulles to grab the 5:00 Jet Blue flight to Long Beach...
Be sure to give Roller and Blackjack a "cookie" for me. ;)
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Mr. Porter's television soundtrack for Aladdin did little to impress. I like the Supermarket in Old Peking number but I didn't find much else about to listen again.
Theatre IV here in Virginia was supposed to mount a "new version" of Alladin last season, I believe. After various delays and other reasons, they cancelled the production. Theatre IV specializes in "family friendly" theatre - they try to avoid the bad connotations that have become associated with the "children's theatre" connotation.
They had all the various estates on board, and the funding was in place. Unfortunately, due to some corporate type shuffling going on - which was all for the better - the powers-that-be/are weren't able to devote the proper amount of time to the development of the revision. At least that is what I seem to recall.
-I may just have to search the Times-Dispatch archives now... hmmm...
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There is a wonderful thing known as a supermarket. In them, at least at Von's and Gelson's, both nearby to dear reader Panni, are bran muffins galore, and they are quite tasty. Also, one can find bran muffins at Winchell's, also nearby.
Thank you for the muffin tip. However, I'm very particular about my bran muffins. Jerry's has ones I like. (They were out.) So does Du-Par's - I didn't even bother with them, as they've been out the last two times. Gelson's has weird (for me) too sweet and gooey bran muffins. Von's I've never tried. If I may vent - and who's going to stop me - the problem these day with muffins, as with so many other things, is they cannot leave well enough alone. Nothing can be plain and simple, not even a muffin. It has to be a "designer muffin." Almond-carob-soy or rasberry-cointreau or organic lemon-poppyseed-tofu. What's a fasting blood-deprived woman to do if she craves a plain old bran muffin?
...I know. Listen to you and go to Von's.
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The Wellington, never stayed there, but I had friends who did when I was living in NY in 1969. Here's a question: Whatever happened to Beef Wellington? It was quite popular when I was growing up (and quite pricey) and I had it several times and loved it. I haven't recalled seeing it on a menu in the last twenty years.
Like DR Stuart, I've seen Beef Wellington still listed on a menu every now and then. I have made it before, but it's been a while. I even think Trader Joe's sells a frozen version in single serve portions. There was a place here in Richmond that would serve an individual size plus a "party" size where they would enclose a whole beef tenderloin - which I think it closer to the original version of Beef Wellington anyway. The duxelles were almost as good as the beef. And sometimes the chef would put slivers of foie gras in there too. Total luxury!
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I may just amble over to Art's, take out an unsecured loan (they're horribly expensive, DRs) and get a full breakfast - including - I hope - a BRAN MUFFIN.
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I forget to mention name of Greenwich Village restaurant. (a quasi KING & I reference).
It is known as One if by Land, Two if by Sea.
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DR Jose or any other DRs in the area, will any of you be going to see LaChiusa's new musical in DC, THE HIGHEST YELLOW? Have you heard anything about it?
I know they started rehearsals this week. That's about it for now. I may get up to see it once I'm back from Houston. They have a great cast which includes Judy Kuhn, Jason Daniely and Mark Kudisch among others.
The show was supposed to be mounted a few seasons ago, but due to various delays - I believe Mr. La Chiusa's Broadway projects - it got pushed back. I remember seeing a set model in the office, and I think I may have even picked up a copy of the script from back then. -Who knows where that is buried in all my stuff right now.
I'm just wondering how much work has been done on the show since that time. Thankfully, Signature's Resident Musical Director, Jon Kalbfleisch, is more than capable of handling and teaching and conducting La Chiusa's music. He did a wonderful job with First Lady Suite. We shall see...
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The 1936 James Whale directed version is certainly the most faithful to the show, and has incomparable performances from Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, and Paul Robeson, among others. But the slickness of the 1951 version, and William Warfield's unmatched singing on "Ol' Man River" still make it my choice.
Pace, DRMattH, but I loathe the MGM hyperventilation because it is so slick, a candy-colored box of slick acts from the Palace Theatre, not an evocation of a not-so-hot crew of performers trekking the Mississippi. It also misses the epic point of the show and novel: time and nature and generations endure, like the river, but people come and go. Shortening the separation of Magnolia and Ravenal to a short period of time and bringing back Julie as the go-between are not what the theme's about. One of the great ironies about the original, and the 1936 film, is that Magnolia's career and her daughter's take them so far away from the tiny insulat life on the showboat. While I find Oscar Hammerstein's ending in the 1936 film no more an improvement over the 1927 original's, I think the awesome cast and direction capture such a feeling for the themes in the show.
I admire a lot of the MGM performances, and the musical arrangements,but I feel they slicked it up way too much.
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As for today's Media Check:
CD Player - OCRs of The Producers, Mamma Mia!, and A Chorus Line - preparation and research, ya' know.
VCR - Nothing
DVD - The Bollywood movie that DR MBarnum sent me a few weeks ago. I'm hoping to get to it tonight, actually.
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And one for Mahler!
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OK... I'm gonna head out for a walk. Need to keep walking. -And then it's over to Steve's tonight for dinner. :)
Laters...
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I'm at work (have been for a couple of hours) and have been able to read today's posts with NO PROBLEM! I do not like the computer at the house where I'm house-sitting, not good. Anyway...
In my CD player at work: the London (West End) cast recording of Bubblin' Brown Sugar courtesy of François! Thank You! After that will be the original cast recording of Debbie Does Dallas with Sherie Rene Scott. I've listened to a couple of songs and so far, I really like it. Now I want to hear the whole thing.
In my DVD player: the 4-DVD set of the original Star Wars (remastered with new special effects version). After that will be Angels In America.
In my VCR: a blank tape to tape tonight's ABC line-up from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
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Thank you DRs Jane and Elmore. And DB Jay, of course.
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...AAGGHHH!! Or I could get ready to head down to Norfolk... I just got "the call"... So, I'll be on some faux Greek Island in a few hours...
Laters...
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Bruce: I was just catching up at FilmScoreMonthlyMessageboard.
You've encountered Eric Paddon. He's not as young as you might suppose. He is not well-tuned to the world, IMO. He has a very narrow focus on how things should be in all things (politics, religion, sports) and I perceive him to be pretty anal about everything, based on years of reading his reactions/thoughts/views -- and sparring with him. He loves to preach what everyone should think or believe, but he has nothing of value to back up his assertions. I consider him a bit of a coward, as well, as he hides behind other people whenever he's cornered.
He is totally blinkered to his deficiencies. His self-awareness is seriously marred by a superego that refuses to be wrong even though every word he writes reveals severe deficiencies...in experience, rational thought and common sense. He has little regard for anyone who thinks/believes differently than he.
He's not worth/worthy of your time. Or anyone elses.
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Panni, have fun with your long lost friend and enjoy the show. I’m also impressed you didn’t have to wait at the doctor’s.
Life is tough on us picky eaters.
My niece got us house seats to MOVIN OUT for Friday night. :D
You are welcome Stuart. It is still a pleasant surprise to see your face.
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One would think he's about twenty or younger. I've seen his inane postings before. He is a jerk - hard-headed, unable to see past his nose and yes, not worth any more of my time, although I do enjoy making people like that look like the idiots they are. I mean, he hasn't seen LAURA, for heaven's sake - this from a "film buff" and "soundtrack buff". Uh huh.
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Thank you DRs Jane and Elmore. And DB Jay, of course.
What did I do? Was it the photo? You're welcome!
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I have a big favor since in a fit of mental abstraction, like Miss Prism's, I threw out the copy of FILM SCORE monthly with the article about George Bassman. Does anyone have the magazine? Can you photocopy the article for me?
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Re: the new musical THE HIGHEST YELLOW
Thanks DR Jose. I knew they started rehearsals this week. But I've heard very little about the show (just the PR blurb and cast) and wanted to know more.
Post if you hear anything more.
Btw, am I the only one who would LOVE to follow the rehearsal process of a new musical?
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You're totally right, DR Elmore, about the over-slickness of the MGM production. I don 't care. I still prefer it. I love all the actors (well, I tolerate Kathryn Grayson; Jane Powell or Ann Blyth might have been better choices) and the color is simply candy-box wonderful. Too slick and talented for a Mississippi showboat? Yes, but so are Irene Dunne and Allan Jones. Anyway, we have both of them so why quibble.
I have that Miles Krueger SHOW BOAT, and it's an exhaustive study of the property. (He, too, loathes the MGM version; of course, it was by far the mostpopular film version of the three and even outgrossed that year's Oscar winner AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.)
In addition to the Turner boxed set of the three SHOW BOATS, I also have the Criterion laserdisc of the 1936 SHOW BOAT which features Miles doing running commentary on the film which he adores. His enthusiasm is contagious even if one doesn't always agree with his assessments.
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Started watching PEYTON PLACE this afternoon. Lovely print (colors not as deeply saturated as I thought they'd be, but sometimes Deluxe Color isn't deeply saturated. It was on THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS but not on many other films of the period.) The Dolby Digital 4.0 sound sounds very front heavy to me with just occasional spillage of music into the rear channels. Anyway, it IS a lovely film. I totally forgot about Mildred Dunnock being in it!
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You're totally right, DR Elmore, about the over-slickness of the MGM production. I don 't care. I still prefer it. I love all the actors (well, I tolerate Kathryn Grayson; Jane Powell or Ann Blyth might have been better choices) and the color is simply candy-box wonderful. Too slick and talented for a Mississippi showboat? Yes, but so are Irene Dunne and Allan Jones. Anyway, we have both of them so why quibble.
DR MattH, I agree about Kathryn Grayson. She's my biggest problem with every MGM musical she's in. Jane Powell would have been a fabulous spunky Magnolia, and I would have loved to see Ann Blyth, after MILDRED PIERCE, as Lily Vanessi in KISS ME, KATE. I love the Champions, but they're so wonderful in SHOW BOAT, you wonder why they're trekking the Mississippi, but, of course, the show boat itself is like a theme park!
I believe Miles told me once that the book cannot be reprinted because some boob at Oxford University Press threw away all the plates, and the photos would cost a fortune to be reset. I love the book; it's been one of my favorites since it was first published. I wonder what it's costing on Bookfinder.com?
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Started watching PEYTON PLACE this afternoon. Lovely print (colors not as deeply saturated as I thought they'd be, but sometimes Deluxe Color isn't deeply saturated. It was on THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS but not on many other films of the period.) The Dolby Digital 4.0 sound sounds very front heavy to me with just occasional spillage of music into the rear channels. Anyway, it IS a lovely film. I totally forgot about Mildred Dunnock being in it!
I love the film, and I don't remember Mildred Dunnock either!
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For anyone who's been waiting with baited breath -- they have NO bran muffins at Art's. But I did have a good breakfast/lunch... with a - sigh - English muffin.
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From Charles Pogue, yesterday:
And howcum no news person has picked up on remark about the woman who had lost her husband and he didn't know how "to love" her.
Oh, a Tim Rice reference!
"An' speakin' of Vladuhmuhr Poontang, I was jest talkin' to Vladuhmur the other day, and I said, 'Vladuhmur, you have to introduce more democracy in Russia.' And Vlavuhmuhr said to me, 'Oh please, call me President Putin--Dubya!'"
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I got a message from PennyO today; she's in New York, looking for another sublet since the place she's got has no telephone and she cannot do email. I'm waiting now to hear from her.
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DR Panni,
I have Steve (the skier) Podborski's mother's bran muffin recipe. (I clipped it out of the Toronto Star ages ago.) It's a good basic muffin - like the kind you seem to hunger for.
It's for 60 muffins, but the batter keeps in the refrigerator for 6 weeks. So you can have a fresh homemade muffin whenever you're in the mood.
Want the recipe? Anyone?
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elmore, I must still have that issue, but I have to find it - it's somewhere.
I had no idea you'd done the three piece orchestration for Night of the Hunter. I may go up to see it - I can't imagine it without the band, but I know you did your usual excellent job.
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DVD - More old television - "December Bride" (still a delight) and for nostalgia purposes "Super Circus" with Claude Kirschner and Mary Heartland
Don't you mean "Claude Kirschner and last but not least Mary Heartland."?
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RANT ALERT
Just one more rant before I use up my two per day allotment. After my non-bran breakfast/lunch - I guess that would be brunch - I drove to my bank. (For those in the know, it's true that my bank is right across the street from Art's, but I was deep in thought about muffins and other important matters when I came out, so I forgot all about going.) As I was saying, I parked behind the bank and got a parking slip which the teller usually validates. Once inside, however, I saw a very long line to the tellers, so I decided to simply use the ATM out front, get some cash and leave. Which I did. On my way back out I stopped at a desk, explained what had happened and asked the person to validate my parking slip. She said, "I need to see your ATM receipt."
Now, maybe I'm too sensitive, but are we living in an age where a person can't be trusted to tell the truth about something as mundane as that? And, in fact, I said to the bank officer, "Why? Do you think I'm lying?" She just looked at me like I was speaking Dutch. It wasn't worth arguing about, so I tossed the receipt on her desk with as much Bette Davis attitude as I could muster. I don't think she knows who Bette is, so that was a complete waste.
...Oh for the good old days...
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DiT I would but then I would eat all of the bran muffins. Better to simply pick one up when I'm in the mood.
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DiT I would but then I would eat all of the bran muffins. Better to simply pick one up when I'm in the mood.
Thank your for the offer, but Ditto (Ditto to DIT?) - Plus in my present home environment, I cannot bake. I use the oven for storage. I actually keep my toaster in there. Did I mention that the other night the turtle broke into my landlady's bedroom (through the pation screendoor) and shattered an antique lamp? She found him happily playing in her bathroom. This is beginning to sound like a zany Neil Simon comedy. (I'm played by a young Jane Fonda. Landlady by Maureen Stapleton or Mildred Natwick or Thelma Ritter.)
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Just read this in Ken Mandelbaum's column:
"Now set for the first week in December are the PBS telecast and DVD release of the kinescope of Julie Andrews in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1957 TV musical Cinderella."
What a MARVELOUS Christmas present for us all! I wish JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL wasn't far behind!
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elmore, I must still have that issue, but I have to find it - it's somewhere.
I had no idea you'd done the three piece orchestration for Night of the Hunter. I may go up to see it - I can't imagine it without the band, but I know you did your usual excellent job.
It was all negotiated before CHARLEY, but I didn't get a contract until I got back from Goodspeed. I was so caught up in the Goodspeed production and our good friend Tony Walton that I clearly forgot about mentionng it, or thought I had!
By the time I started woring on it, my health was a mess, and most of the work was done during the two weeks of collapsing bookcases when I was living outside the apartment. I sent the band parts to San Francisco in instalments. I hear the band sounds pretty good. We went with piano (I think/hope he's doubling celesta), percussion and cello.
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Thank your for the offer, but Ditto (Ditto to DIT?) - Plus in my present home environment, I cannot bake. I use the oven for storage. I actually keep my toaster in there. Did I mention that the other night the turtle broke into my landlady's bedroom (through the pation screendoor) and shattered an antique lamp? She found him happily playing in her bathroom. This is beginning to sound like a zany Neil Simon comedy. (I'm played by a young Jane Fonda. Landlady by Maureen Stapleton or Mildred Natwick or Thelma Ritter.)
I'd want Thelma Ritter for my landlady and Mildred Natwick as my aunt who cons a repairman to fix the oven. Maureen would play my mother, and Robert Redford would play me.
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BTW - I was a big fan of DECEMBER BRIDE also. Haven't seen it since the days I watched it regularly way back in the Stone Age. Would love to see it again.
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What a MARVELOUS Christmas present for us all! I wish JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL wasn't far behind!
Amen!
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We will hear no more rants about Bran Muffins - the ranter was given the name of two places where they could be found and where I have first-hand knowledge of their worth - Von's and Winchell's.
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Dear Friend BK, I forgot to add in my note about NIGHT OF THE HUNTER that last night Noah Racey, who played Charley, asked me what I was working on and I told him I'd turned down three jobs because of my health. I had totally forgotten about HUNTER!
What I really want to orchestrate is the WHATIF revue.
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I'd want Thelma Ritter for my landlady and Mildred Natwick as my aunt who cons a repairman to fix the oven. Maureen would play my mother, and Robert Redford would play me.
Sounds like excellent casting, Larry. I think I mentioned ages ago that there actually was a very short-lived Canadian sitcom (pilot and one episode maybe) loosely based on stories I had told about my mother and her bridal shop. I did not write it. I cannot remember who played "me" - it wasn't Jane Fonda - but my mother was miscast TOTALLY. The head of CBC Drama, after viewing the pilot, insisted that the only RIGHT casting would be Yvonne de Carlo (a Canadian by birth, so she would have met the CBC nationality rules) and they must bring her in immediately. He knew my mother and he was so right. They did not bring Miss de Carlo in and the series died.
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DiT I would but then I would eat all of the bran muffins. Better to simply pick one up when I'm in the mood.
That makes sense. But I think I put myself in the mood and may whip up the batter this weekend. It's quite a production (2/3 cup wheat germ, 3 cups bran, 3 cups All-Bran, 5 cups flour ... you get the idea). There are some neighbors who like to share these things.
Gord, the DP(artner), has an elderly aunt who's quite a character - she likes to outdo everyone. She enjoyed these muffins and insisted on having the recipe. I told her the batter is for 60 muffins, but she could halve the recipe. (It's just the aunt and uncle in a small apartment.) But true to form she doubled the recipe. She later said she had to use a large plastic garbage pail, plus a canoe paddle for mixing.
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We will hear no more rants about Bran Muffins - the ranter was given the name of two places where they could be found and where I have first-hand knowledge of their worth - Von's and Winchell's.
Now it's become a challenge. The market and Wichell's are too easy. (Besides, what kind of wuss goes to Winchell's to buy a muffin?) I'm obsessed with getting a muffin somewhere more muffin-friendly. Tonight I'm being interviewed in Hungarian by a six-foot-tall Hungarian ("How will I recognize you?") for a documentary about the Hungarian Revolution. (BTW, Larry - Robert Redford was also interviewed.) I was asked to suggest a cafe in which to meet, so I suggested the Aroma. Guess what I'm going to order?
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BTW - I will bet five dollars right now that Winchell's has all sorts of lovely muffins - but not bran. (I'm tempted to make the same bet for Von's.) I'm talkin' plain bran here. I'll allow for raisins - but nothing else. Actually, bk, a new place in the hood which MIGHT have such muffins is Panera's.
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I too would like to see DECEMBER BRIDE. We have been enjoying our AMOS AND ANDY and SCIENCE FICTION THEATER.
Bruce I have been very dissapointed in Winchell's lately and would hesitate to try a bran muffin there.
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Okay - I promise not to mention you-know-what again.
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Now it's become a challenge. The market and Wichell's are too easy. (Besides, what kind of wuss goes to Winchell's to buy a muffin?) I'm obsessed about getting a muffin somewhere more muffin-friendly. Tonight I'm being interviewed in Hungarian by a six-foot-tall Hungarian ("How will I recognize you?") for a documentary about the Hungarian Revolution. (BTW, Larry - Robert Redford was also interviewed.) I was asked to suggest a cafe in which to meet, so I suggested the Aroma. Guess what I'm going to order?
Does it begin with a B?
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Mr. Porter's television soundtrack for Aladdin did little to impress. I like the Supermarket in Old Peking number but I didn't find much else about to listen again.
A little quibble. The recording of the TV version of Aladdin is not a soundtrack, but rather a studio recording of the show. Basil Rathbone who appears in the tv version and sings is not on the recording, but his role is sung by someone else who sings another role. I think its George Hall. Don;t have the cd in front of me
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December Bride was such a fun show. Back in the early 70s we had a channel that, during the summer, ran many old TV programs including December Bride, How to Marry a Millionaire, People's Choice, and all sorts of other goodies! Spring Byington is a joy to watch!
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Uhg, these allergies are just killing me! My eyes are all bloodshot and puffy, my skin is pale, I am coughing and hacking and all around miserable. I went and had my hairs cut so that at tomorrow's wedding (Sam Gattucio and my darling, sweet faux-neice Mikayla Ryan) I won't look completely like something the cat (Freddy) dragged in...but looking in the mirror just now I don't know if it helped much! LOL!
OH, and Mt. St. Helen's is erupting!
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Well, since I've had the bran muffin at Von's I'm here to tell you it falls within your normal category. And I believe I've had a rather tasty one at Winchell's, but that was quite some time ago.
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OH, and Mt. St. Helen's is erupting!
Michael, what did you do to provoke it?
Did you see that as part of the TCM musicals series they're going to show a letterboxed FLOWER DRUM SONG? No sign, alas, of a letterboxed LI'L ABNER.
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Bruce is normal good enough? Maybe for you but I need to be really hungry for that. I want super delicious as a recommendation. :)
MBarnum feel better soon.
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Since bran muffins have never been my favorite (I only like them occasionally) I wouldn't say I've ever had a super delicious bran muffin.
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Since bran muffins have never been my favorite (I only like them occasionally) I wouldn't say I've ever had a super delicious bran muffin.
Since you bring it up... Bran muffins are not my favorite, either. That's why when I DO feel like a bran muffin, it has to be the best possible bran muffin, The creme de la creme of bran muffins (if that makes any sense). FYI - I did not know of the existence of muffins until I left Hungary. Muffins are not known in Budapest -- or weren't in my day. Neither was Jello.
DD tells, BTW, me that Hungary is the porn capital of the world. I guess you have to do something to make up for the lack of muffins.
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***FEEL BETTER VIBES TO MBARNUM***
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I LOVE muffins, but I really dislike bran muffins.
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My niece just got me house seats to WICKED :D
MBarnum is the eruption causing your allergies? I wonder how my son feels. I should give him a call.
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I must go now. First to water my outdoor flowers. And then to finish reading a book (only 20 pages left).
Btw, is it sneaky that I told my sister about a book I really wanted at Costco, knowing that she would probably buy it?
And she did. :)
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Any more talking about Bran Muffin's, it may become a "regular" topic here on HHW. Either that, or we all may become "regular" about it.
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Ok, that was bad, I aplogize. Long day with kids in the classroom. Who's idea was it to have a once a week music class on a FRIDAY? Good luck teaching ANYTHING with substance when everyone's mind is on the weekend, especially after lunch!
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Evening all!
Let's get this out of the way. To heck with BRAN muffins, bring on the CHOCOLATE muffins with nuts and little chocolate morsels! :D
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My niece just got me house seats to WICKED :D
I think you will really like the show, Jane. It's hard for me to be fair about such things because anything that is a fantasy already has my interest. I think that is why I didn't enjoy Boy From Oz and Wonderful Town as much. They were ok but I would go see Wicked again before I would either of them.
My friend stopped by work to see how we were all doing so I didn't get a chance to miss her. We did lunch. I had Flan and it was W*O*N*D*E*R*F*U*L*L* ! MMMMMMM!
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If anyone brings up those
bran muffins #$%ing bran muffins again, I'm going to jump out the window.
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I agree with Danise! Chocolate muffins!
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If anyone brings up those bran muffins #$%ing bran muffins again, I'm going to jump out the window.
Humm, what floor are you on, DR Jay? I don't want to make you hurt yourself but how about some Chocolate BRAN muffins with nuts and little chocolate morsels and everyone can be happy!
We can have our fiber and feed our sweet tooth at the same time!
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Humm, what floor are you on, DR Jay? I don't want to make you hurt yourself but how about some Chocolate BRAN muffins with nuts and little chocolate morsels and everyone can be happy!
We can have our fiber and feed our sweet tooth at the same time!
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Jay and Danise- ;D
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Opps! :o
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I think we ALL know who to blame for the dreaded Bran Muffin discussion, oh, yes, I think we ALL know who to blame.
I'm watching Sssss and it's putting me to sleep. The snakes are fun and the actors are not doubled ever, which is amazing. Put the direction and pacing is ssssso ssssslow. The director and crew had probably all eaten Bran Muffins. I shall be going out to dinner shortly with my pal Barbara Deutsch.
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And one for Mahler, who detested Bran Muffins.
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Ok, that was bad, I aplogize. Long day with kids in the classroom. Who's idea was it to have a once a week music class on a FRIDAY? Good luck teaching ANYTHING with substance when everyone's mind is on the weekend, especially after lunch!
It's Fridays at 2:30 I teach a musical theatre workshop at a college in New Jersey.
Bran muffins used to be a big part of my diet. Nowadays, if I have any sort of muffin in a month, it's rare. Oddly, though, I had a muffin today... raspberry cheese. The raspberry part was bright pink; the cheese part, a yellowy off-white.
Speaking of which, what's Highest Yellow about? I'm pretty sure Kudisch was here this week, doing The Man Who Would Be King by my friends Neil Berg and D.J. Salisbury.
And speaking of cheap steaks, I just had one for dinner, over a piece of bread. DW Joy couldn't imagine it would be good, but, she tasted a bite and had to admit
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Next we'll be discussing prunes and Early Bird Specials! This is a young-cool-with-it site, people.
Forget the fershluganah muffins already. And DR Jay, don't pull that "I'm jumping out the window" trick. We weren't born yesterday. That is for sure.
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I think we ALL know who to blame for the dreaded Bran Muffin discussion, oh, yes, I think we ALL know who to blame.
Who? (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/engel/angel-smiley-013.gif)
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Forget the fershluganah muffins? Let us all go back and see who began the discussion, who carried on the discussion and who can't let the Bran Muffin Fix go. Oh, yes, let us all do that and see which name we come up with.
And, of course, Jay HAS jumped out the window - now, don't you feel BAD? Of course, he lives in a one-story house so he didn't go far, but still, it's the thought that counts or, at the very least, it's the count that thoughts.
Perhaps I shall tell the story of The Randy Vicar and the Egg White.
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(As if I could read the three prior posts as I lay, a broken man, on the pavement.)
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Didn't one of our writers here write the cable movie, Miss Egg White?
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Looking for pictures of Bran Muffins, I ran accross this.... http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/705748/?offset=50
who knew?
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I'm sleepy, too. And I'm not watching SSSSS.
I've decided NOT to order a you-know-what tonight. Which leaves me in a quandary (a WHAT IF? reference) -- What DO I order? What is the polite thing to order while talking (in Hungarian) about people being killed and buildings being burned down and shooting and looting. A cheese danish, perhaps?
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Didn't one of our writers here write the cable movie, Miss Egg White?
And another wrote, directed and STARRED in The First Muffin Musical.
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Next we'll be discussing prunes!
They are now called dried plums. As tasty as they are one must be careful not to eat too many. ;D
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...Not to mention The Muffin Wasn't Nice (aka The Muffin Wasn't Bran) and that wonderful stage hit Forget-Me-Nut-Muffin.
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(As if I could read the three prior posts as I lay, a broken man, on the pavement.)
Super glue, anyone? :D
Should we change the subject? Any thoughts about stud muffins?
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No luck on the bran muffin picture... probably better that way, eh?!?! Off to Berlin for what will seem like a weekend (show this eve, 2 tomorrow and 1 Sunday)
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Oh - one more thing... makes me laugh. My nick-name for my Ever-Loving Eric is "The Muffin Man" (he's a pastry chef), brings whole new meaning when I sing "Do You know the Muffin Man" with my young kids in class. I can honestly answer that I DO know the muffin man!
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Quote from: Danise on Yesterday at 08:59:20pm
Clearwater--that's where most of the old folks stay. How familiar are you with it?
Well, the first time I went there was in... 1977!
I was living in Montréal then, and a Canadian friend of mine had a condo in Safety Harbor, where the Spa is.
I remember the famous Kapoke Tree Restaurant which closed a few years ago!
Then, in the eighties, I had the opportunity of going back there often. I forget the name of the big Shopping Mall on the way to Clearwater Beach; I enjoyed going there, and it was so sad, when I went back for a visit "to my past" in Florida, in 2001 to see that huge place almost empty, with hardly ten stores remaining open, mainly haidressers'....
I also went many times to the terrific Eckerd Ruth Hall, downtown Clearwater, where I saw Julie and also Rosemary Clooney in her Christmas Show....
http://www.rutheckerdhall.com/
Bernadette P. is to appear there next January!!
In 2001, on my way in from France, I landed in Tampa late at night, rented a car and checked in some motel, and went first thing in the morning to Clearwater Beach: I love the causeway leading to the beach, with those huge bushes -- I did not print kerries, you noticed!! -- of poisonous laurels....
There are LOADS of old folks everywhere in Florida, Danise!!
I have also been to Ruth Eckerd many times. Of course the last thing I saw was Millie.
That's a bit far for me to drive and I refuse to go over the bridges alone at night but it does make for a nice day drive.
I think I was only at the Kapoke Tree Restaurant once. When I was 16.
As for there being LOADS of old folks everywhere in Florida, I couldn't say. I never noticed. ;)
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What is the polite thing to order while talking (in Hungarian) about people being killed and buildings being burned down and shooting and looting. A cheese danish, perhaps?
It depends. Was it Denmark that attacked Hungary?
I knew someone in a basement apartment who tried to kill herself by jumping out the window, up to street level
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I've just returned from dinner with Miss PennyO who sends her love to all the Hainsies and Kimlets. She's now in NYC, keeping busy, and looking for a new sublet. We had dinner at Artie's Deli. She had a vegetable platter and my baked potato, and I had stuffed cabbage and mixed veggies. It was a pleasant visit, and I heard from her how fantastic the WHATIF revue was.
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Matthew-cute. Your muffin man should make us all bran muffins. :)
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Thanks DR Jane and Panni for the get better thoughts! I am stuffed up but I WILL survive! LOL! Damn, allergies!
Well, I just finished interviewing (via the phone) Mr. Tony Russel (a.k.a Tony Russo) who starred in a number of Italian action/sci-fi/gladiator films in the 60s, and a few American ones as well. Very nice guy and I had lots of fun hearing about his career!
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Mr. Tony Russel[/move]
Star of THE WILD, WILD PLANET and THE SPARTAN GLADIATOR!
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MBarnum those nasty allergies are a pain!
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Media Check:
CD: Queen Latifah's "The Dana Owens Album" her jazz album that was just released. While she is in very good voice, the cd seems overproduced, especially for a jazz album. Herbie Hancock is on hand, however, for "I Put A Spell On You."
DVD: Call Me Madam. I can't get over how OTT the Merm is, and how much fun it is to watch her lob "You're Just In Love."
VHS: Joey, Will & Grace and the Presidential Debate
BOOK: Kritzerland, by BK. Which I love. But what in the hell is a Spenser steak?
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I'm gonna be a Newbie for life, aren't I?
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Oh no, keep posting and one day you shall be a God. It is something to aspire to. And getting there is so much fun. :D
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I guess I should just become a frenzy until I am no longer a newbie.
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And one for Mahler.
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The Wellington, never stayed there, but I had friends who did when I was living in NY in 1969. Here's a question: Whatever happened to Beef Wellington? It was quite popular when I was growing up (and quite pricey) and I had it several times and loved it. I haven't recalled seeing it on a menu in the last twenty years.
This, from Fashionable Food, by Sylvia Lovegren:
Beef Wellington was the premier party dish of the 1960's. Even more than coq au vin,veal Orloff, beef strganoff, steak Kiane, seak au poivre, or duckling a l'orange, it was rich, dramatic, expensive, and seemed difficult and time-consuming to prepare. In short, it was everything a gourmet dish should be.
For those not in the know, Beef Wellington was a fillet of beef, coated with pate de fois gras or a mushroom duxelles, wrapped in a pastry and baked. The idea was to get the pastry flaky and crisp while the beef inside remained fairly rare. (Sorry, Jane.) Usually, puff pastry was used for the crust. A sauce made with Madeira was often served with the dish.
It was, for a time, quite the dish to be served at dinner parties. Unfortunately, because many home chefs weren't up to the task of making it properly, several rip-off versions showed up, to where any meat wrapped in pastry was called "Wellington," whether for good or ill. Also, tastes began to change, became more sophisticated, and the sophistication of Beef Wellington became suspect as it became less cutting edge. Some wags even suggested that the reason it was called Beef Wellington was not because it was the duke's favorite dish, but because it resembled the boots he wore.
Properly prepared, it is still a dish worth pursuing. It just isn't considered "popular" any more.
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SWW when I ate meat, I wanted it fairly rare. Prime rib in our house was only served medium rare, more on the pink side then brown.
With that thought I'm tempted to eat some of the ice cream Keith is about to indulge in. I shall be good because I want to eat my heart out in NY.
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Good night all.
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AND...... one for Wellington.... who loved bran muffins!!
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Oh so sweet. Keith just said he is going to miss me when I'm gone. I'm so lucky.
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I'm gonna be a Newbie for life, aren't I?
Well, DR divarobbie, you don't have to keep shaving down there. (A Will & Grace reference!)
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Muffins are not known in Budapest -- or weren't in my day. Neither was Jello.
DD tells, BTW, me that Hungary is the porn capital of the world. I guess you have to do something to make up for the lack of muffins.
My kind of humour, Panni!
So funny!
Now.... if we "mix" sex and Jello... that can be... interesting too! :D
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Reading this evening's posts makes me think of one of the skits from Lily Tomlin's Appearing Nitely, in which a married couple has this petty conversation about cake and their young daughter keeps screaming, "WILL YOU PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT CAKE!!!"
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Oh so sweet. Keith just said he is going to miss me when I'm gone. I'm so lucky.
Jane, you know better!
Don't fall for that! ;)
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Jane - I just sent you a note ......
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Jane - I just sent you a note ......
Dan... you're so musical! ;D
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François you're so funny!
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Was at rehearsal most of the evening, so I have nothing much to talk about. I missed all the bran muffin brouhaha as it took place, and reading about this stuff after the fact is, well, just stale.
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Bran Muffin Brouhaha!
Is that a new dance?
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I've never had Beef Wellington but I like bran muffins...plain is better (almost an Ed Kleban reference)...raisins are just wrong.
I had to get one last (potentially) HHW fix before I go back to house-sit at the house that has the slowest computer in the world, even though it has DSL Internet access. Mini-rant: It's ridiculous. It's so [expletive deleted] slow! I don't understand how the owners can stand it. They must not have Internet on their computers at their work. End of mini-rant. :-X I try and just accept the computer speed for what it is...slow...and deal with it. But it's almost like going through withdrawal. The computer's there availabe for use, but mostly not really worth it. Okay, it's out of my system. Thanks for letting me rant! ::)
And with that (and the catching up [ketchuping] on all of the posts), I'm off...probably until tomorrow.
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François you're so funny!
François, you know better!
Don't fall for that! ;D
-- thanks for the compliment; I'm vain and I like it!! ;) --
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I've never had Beef Wellington
Me neither, but.... am I telling everyone here?????? :o
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Brown puffin!
errr.... bran muffin:
http://www.edietshop.com/onlinestore/images/535133.jpg
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Yes, We Have No Banana!
http://www.eatingwell.com/about_us/media_materials/wint04_images/banana_bran_muffin150.jpg
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Bran muffin?
No!
brown puffin!
http://www.nurseyleather.co.uk/images/Puffin_Brown_Tornado.jpg
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BK, I'm afraid I'm chassing "them" all away!
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I'm Just A Poor Lonesome Cowboy!
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Yes, where in tarnation IS everyone? This is, after all, Octoberfest. I'm about to sit in the Jacuzzi for a little while. Waiting for the temperature to rise just a bit more.
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Good Evening!
I'm back from Norfolk and my "first" performance of MAMMA MIA! I had a few "jitters", but I had a good time and a good show. It took me a while to adjust my mixing board to the sound mix I'm used to hearing, but I think I'm close. In any case, I now know what "this" sound mix sounds like. I was caught off guard in the Overture when the whole band started up - again, the "different" sound mix, but I made it through the show with no major boos-boos.
The drive down to Norfolk was long. And I even took the right highway this time. There was a major accident on the other side of the highway, and they had to do some rerouting of the traffic in order to get everyone around it. So, they were closing off some exits, and eventually detoured some of the westbound traffic onto the eastbound lanes. The accident only added about 20 minutes to my trip, but then I hit the usual rush hour tunnel and bridge traffic once I hit Hampton Roads. That was an additional 30-40 minutes. Ah, well...
I made it to the theatre in time to get a quick dinner at Nordstrom's again, and had a good hour to warm up before the show. Then I played the show, drove home, and here I am... And now I'm gonna go read the rest of the posts from today, and then head to bed since I need to get up in time to drive back to Norfolk... -And start all over again...
;)
Laters...
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The jacuzzi was lovely - 104 degrees of pure enjoyment. I am now totally relaxed and I shall sleep very well tonight methinks.
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All this bran muffin stuff...well....golly. Sounds like it's time to run out and buy a bottle of Phillip's Milk of Magnesia.
I mean...if it's getting so desperate that it's a running commentary through the afternoon and into the evening, I think desperate measures MUST be taken...
:D
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Well, the posts have been read...
DR Noel - The Highest Yellow is about a Van Gogh. If I recall correctly, Jason Daniely is playing Van Gogh, Mark Kudisch is playing his doctor, and Judy Kuhn is playing a whore. Interesting, huh? To find out more, go to Signature's site:
Signature Theatre (http://www.sig-online.org)
*You can also see the plans for their new theatre complex. Let's just hope there's enough money to go around the DC Theatre Community. Over the next couple of years, most of the major theatres in DC are building new spaces including Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre (continuing their expansion), and, of course, The Kennedy Center.
As for the food who's name shall not be mentioned again... I know what I'm NOT having for breakfast in the morning. -And, like DR Danise, give me a Chocolate Muffin one anyday. I was hoping to have one at Nordstrom's tonight, but there were out. Instead, I got a Peanut Butter Brownie. Pretty tasty.
OH! On the drive back, I had the Norfolk NPR station on my car radio. And it was 80's night! -The 1980's, not the 1880's nor the 1780's... What a fun drive I had for a while... "I'll Stop The World And Melt With You", "Video Killed the Radio Star", etc... And then a short live acousting set from Tears for Fears.
OK - I need to get up in six hours, so...
Goodnight.
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I'm back from a faboo evening of chatting in Hungarian about just everything. What fun! And guess what I ate? ...Let us begin with what I had to drink. An espresso, natch - this being a Hungarian evening. And to eat -- a CHOCOLATE MUFFIN! And it was so absolutely delicious I almost died from the pleasure of it all.
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Did you miss me?
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Ah-hah!
I now have a new screensaver picture....to replace WHAT IF? It is the cover of the new Bruce Kimmel novel Writer's Block!
Very nifty! When you show it on TV be sure to wear a red shirt so it will show up nicely!
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Mildred Dunnock - DRElmore - as DRMATTH will confirm plays Miss Thornton, the English teacher at Peyton Place High School who is passed over for the job as principal in favor of newcomer Mike Rossi. She makes a very nice speech at the Graduation Dance is otherwise reminds all of us of at least one teacher in our high school.
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DR STUART nice new avatar....forgot to mention it. So now I do.
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Speaking of SHOWBOAT from 1952 (?) - all those damned chorus people in the SHOWBOAT number....where are they afterwards? We never see them again in any of the shows or numbers?
Must be day players - then into the river with ya!
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Enough for me until the new notes go up!