Good Morning - the DD and I are off on a roadtrip today. We are heading to the Foothills - for no real reason, just that I grew up there and have no real ties to anyone there anymore. I guess we're just going for a drive, maybe take some pics. It will also be the first chance I have to listen to "Welcome to My World".
Tuesday morning greetings! I've surrendered to whatever this is that I have and made a doctor's appointment for this afternoon. I'd really like to be well before I have to fly to Boston a week from Friday.
Very interesting to read about the Jason & Faith show. They are both graduates of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and I have programs that indicate that I saw both of them in productions on the Showboat Majestic in the 1970s.
Tuesday morning greetings! I've surrendered to whatever this is that I have and made a doctor's appointment for this afternoon. I'd really like to be well before I have to fly to Boston a week from Friday.
~~~Feel Better Quickly Vibes for Ginny!!~~~
Very interesting to read about the Jason & Faith show. They are both graduates of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and I have programs that indicate that I saw both of them in productions on the Showboat Majestic in the 1970s.
That's pretty darned cool! I remember seeing the national touring company of "The Secret Garden" at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle years ago, and much later I found the program and saw that Amanda Naughton (from Rupert Holmes' "Remember WENN"), Audra Ann McDonald AND Roger Bart were all in that tour! I, of course, had no idea who they were at the time, but I certainly have heard of them since. :)
Tuesday morning greetings! I've surrendered to whatever this is that I have and made a doctor's appointment for this afternoon. I'd really like to be well before I have to fly to Boston a week from Friday.
~~~Feel Better Quickly Vibes for Ginny!!~~~
And another dose.
TOD- Barbra Streisand---surprise, surprise
I had a very long hot shower today!!
I keep dozing off
Back to SCORPIO for a minute. As soon as I saw the first brief scene taking place in this huge old wooden skating rink complete with a three- or four-manual theater organ, I perked right up. Nothing grabs my attention in movie locations like some obviously wonderful artifact from the mid-20th-century. It's not that I ever cared much for roller skating -- I went along with friends under duress a few times -- but I just had to pause the film and look at this place. That kind of structure evokes strong feelings for my early decades, and these couple of brief scenes are all too fleeting.
Anyhoo...
A lot of the location work took place in DR KevinH's stomping grounds of Alexandria, VA, and the roller rink in question was the Alexandria Arena, built in 1948 and demolished in 1986:
http://www.localkicks.com/local_style/entertainment/the-alexandria-roller-rink-once-the-place-to-catch-janis-joplin-the-doors-rod-stewart
Brief use is made, also, of a former Safeway store there, and a number of nice looking city blocks. I can identify the supermarket structure on Google, but it probably hasn't been a Safeway in years. I hate to think of what has probably happened with some of the lovely urban blocks we also get tantalizing glimpses of.
While it's common for me to take note of great location shots of any place I knew, this is one of those that is compelling even though I don't actually know the place. I've only been in Alexandria that one time a couple of years ago when we met there to see Sandy Bainum's show. I nevertheless am sad for the loss of what I saw in this movie. And I do look forward to a return to the film, having now been through it my first time.
Hi, Tom.
I'm watching The Kennedy Center Honors. I'm at the George Lucas section and there are stormtroopers on parade...literally.
I'm watching The Kennedy Center Honors. I'm at the George Lucas section and there are stormtroopers on parade...literally.
I watched the Rita Moreno section, but then I lost interest.