Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 26, 2019, 12:14:19 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had both wishes and horses and even herring, and now it is time for you to post until the if wishes were cows cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SERIATIM!
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First post after BK.
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Indeed, it is the Brothers Grimm version of CINDERELLA that has the wishing tree and not a fairy godmother. Who knew?
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Indeed, it is the Brothers Grimm version of CINDERELLA that has the wishing tree and not a fairy godmother. Who knew?
Evidently, Lapine and Sondheim.
;)
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Good night, one and all!
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Indeed, it is the Brothers Grimm version of CINDERELLA that has the wishing tree and not a fairy godmother. Who knew?
Evidently, Lapine and Sondheim.
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Good point!
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George, what is wrong with you? Cute waiter and you didn't discuss the problem with him? I'm losing faith in you!
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George, what is wrong with you? Cute waiter and you didn't discuss the problem with him? I'm losing faith in you!
I know, I know.
Hangs head in shame.
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And if you don't want him, can I have him?
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Good night, Tom.
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And if you don't want him, can I have him?
I didn't say that I didn't want him! I saw him first!
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You'd have to come up here to Washington and get him!
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The people across the street had an outside party with very loud music today. I started to go over to ask them to turn it down when I noticed tons of motorcycles all lined up on the street and lotsa guys is biker jackets walking around. I figured discretion is the better part of valor and went back inside.
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Does that mean we'd have to arm wrestle for him? I'm old but mighty.
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And have no problem coming to Washington. I'm retired with plenty of time!
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Does that mean we'd have to arm wrestle for him? I'm old but mighty.
You could probably take me. My arms are pretty weak. :(
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so's your spelling.
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so's your spelling.
I don't know wha you're talking about. ::)
;)
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So what else is new in Tumwater, Punkin?
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So what else is new in Tumwater, Punkin?
Nothing that I know of. How're things down in your part of the country?
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Kimmel, didn't you Bat Mitzvah Darling Daughter?
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Right now, it sounds like the bikers are taking off. Either that or a jet is landing on my street.
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Well, kids, I will good night. Sleep well and hugs to Neve.
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Right now, it sounds like the bikers are taking off. Either that or a jet is landing on my street.
Yikes!
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Well, kids, I will good night. Sleep well and hugs to Neve.
Thanks, jan, and good night to you.
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Darling Daughter wasn't raised to be Jewish OR Catholic (ex-wife was the latter).
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Well, I'm off to bed. I have no plans except to watch some TV and maybe do some laundry.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all.
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Let’s move on...
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Two!
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Hello, 0 guests.
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I guess because of Mom’s German background, we heard Cinderella without the fairy godmother. And with the birds pecking out the stepsisters’ eyes.
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Off to the day.
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We watched THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE (James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Jack Carson) last night.
Still a wonderful movie.
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Good morning, all!
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The cats wanted me out of bed at 6:10, and I wanted to sleep more, At 6:45 I fed them and went back to bed.
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Annabelle wants to patrol.
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Good morning, all.
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Day #2 of Memorial Day Weekend, and I believe there’s nothing in particular I have to do or go out for.
It’s going to be our one hot day (mid-80s) and I expect to just laze around and enjoy the fact that nothing much is going on.
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I'm turning on the AC, taking my meds, giving Thatch his heart medicine, and getting ready for work.
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Today is RACE day.....but it is blacked out in my area....so if I want to watch, I will have to wait for the tape delay.
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I like the idea of DR TCB buying furniture with his library card....why is he only getting half a sectional on Friday?
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I think I have been in a temple ONCE in my life.
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After 67 years of making a twin bed everyday, making a KING sized bed everyday is like building a house.
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I think I have been in a temple ONCE in my life.
I've been to a funeral and to a service, as I recall. As a lapsed protestant, I haven't been inside a church in at least 20 years.
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After 67 years of making a twin bed everyday, making a KING sized bed everyday is like building a house.
Yep!
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I like the idea of DR TCB buying furniture with his library card....why is he only getting half a sectional on Friday?
I thought when they said "Everything Half-off for the holiday," they meant half off the price.
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The people across the street had an outside party with very loud music today. I started to go over to ask them to turn it down when I noticed tons of motorcycles all lined up on the street and lotsa guys is biker jackets walking around. I figured discretion is the better part of valor and went back inside.
I usually stay away for even two or three motorcyclists with biker jackets. It's worth crossing to the other side of the street not to take chances.
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I guess because of Mom’s German background, we heard Cinderella without the fairy godmother. And with the birds pecking out the stepsisters’ eyes.
It just happens that I knew "Once Upon a Mattress" quite well before I got to the library to read "The Princess and the Pea" - for some reason, with all the books we had in the house, we didn't have that story in original form. So I was actually a little disappointed that the original story didn't have anything funny and "real" like the palace staff having put all that bulky equipment under the mattress to make sure Carol Burnett s Fred had a bad night's sleep. I'd been looking forward to reading that part.
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OK, so if you've never seen a show in a temple, have you ever seen a show about Shirley Temple in a church?
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I like how TCB can tell a story at crazy hours line by line, and have it build so well.
Do you write it that way, or do you write it all and then post it line by line?
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Someone named "Pokernight" on All That Chat suggested:
Lisa Mordente in "Kids of the Spider Woman"
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Good afternoon!
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Someone named "Pokernight" on All That Chat suggested:
Lisa Mordente in "Kids of the Spider Woman"
Ha!
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After 67 years of making a twin bed everyday, making a KING sized bed everyday is like building a house.
;D
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DR TCB congrats on your mew furniture. I hope you are pleased with it.
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Bruce how soon do you expect to report your obsessed stalker?
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We are waiting for the kids to return from their tour of Montreal on scooters. Bryan has a motorcycle and Kate a nice scooter but Craig had never driven one before and was a bit apprehensive. I hope he had fun and they are all unscratched.
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I like the idea of DR TCB buying furniture with his library card....why is he only getting half a sectional on Friday?
Is it due back in three weeks?
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Three!
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DR TCB congrats on your mew furniture. I hope you are pleased with it.
That's what it becomes after Nicky gets on it.
:)
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Cleaned a little in the garage. Of course, you can't tell anything has been done in there.
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Now the trash can and the recycling can are both filled. Recycling pickup is tomorrow or Tuesday, if they don't come on the holiday. But trash pickup isn't due until Thursday.
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We were just info they were having fun in the mountains & the tour was extended 15 minutes.
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Jane, the next time there's a change on my Wikipedia page. There's no one else who can be doing this. The latest gambit was adding to the author section the addition "self published through Author House" which is, of course, meant to lessen the accomplishment - I removed it because who gives a crap - many people have gone that route, especially with that publisher - very big names. It's that kind of thing. Another is "he claims to have never missed a day of blogging since November of 2001" There's no "claims" about it - I haven't. It's that petty, stupid stuff, which is what the stalker is all about, as you all well know.
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I'm up, I'm up - I was up at seven-thirty, didn't get back to sleep until after nine, so again not more than six hours of sleep.
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Sunday afternoon greetings!
Today is RACE day.....
It is, indeed, and I was afraid we’d miss the pre-race festivities and the start because Fr. Richard did a solo act at Christ the King in Dayton this morning. But we heard “Back Home Again in Indiana” on the car radio and were home in time to see the green flag drop. We even had time to pick up a traditional race day lunch - fried chicken.
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I've just made a bunch of adjustments and additions to the Wikipedia page. Let's see how long they stay there.
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I shall now be on my way to see a musical.
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DR TCB congrats on your mew furniture. I hope you are pleased with it.
That's what it becomes after Nicky gets on it.
:)
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After 67 years of making a twin bed everyday, making a KING sized bed everyday is like building a house.
I have a queen sized bed. I don't really "make" my bed. I just kind of pull the covers back over everything and call it good. ;)
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After 67 years of making a twin bed everyday, making a KING sized bed everyday is like building a house.
I have a queen sized bed. I don't really "make" my bed. I just kind of pull the covers back over everything and call it good. ;)
Me, too.
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Watching the first of the films in Shoah: Four Sisters. Devastating. The woman in this film, Ruth Elias, was Czech but she speaks in English. And all Lanzmann really had to do was turn on the camera and let her talk. The stories of going to two camps, the latter of which was Auchswitz, is horrifying.
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Some rock musician keeps claiming he is the son of Allison Hayes on his Wiki page......which of course, I keep deleting.....
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Well of course now I can't remember the guy's name OR the name of the band......dumb chemo brain.....
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AH....I remembered......the sentence is no longer in his bio.....which is a good thing.
I hesitate to mention the name of the band on a wholesome website such as HHW.
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Jane, the next time there's a change on my Wikipedia page. There's no one else who can be doing this. The latest gambit was adding to the author section the addition "self published through Author House" which is, of course, meant to lessen the accomplishment - I removed it because who gives a crap - many people have gone that route, especially with that publisher - very big names. It's that kind of thing. Another is "he claims to have never missed a day of blogging since November of 2001" There's no "claims" about it - I haven't. It's that petty, stupid stuff, which is what the stalker is all about, as you all well know.
You said next time you would report her, vs reporting her now. I am guessing that next time, when you finally report her, will be very soon.
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Well, I just bought a ticket for tonight to see Tacoma Little Theatre's one-hour abridged version of The Pillowman (https://www.tacomalittletheatre.com/blog/2019/pillowmannationals), which is a fund raiser to send the troup to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for the American Association of Community Theatre's national finals!
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One of the actors is a neighbor, and his wife was in Fun Home that I just saw last night...which reminds me, I saw (former) DR Jed at Fun Home last night. He said that Ann stayed home with the kids. We couldn't chat for very long. I had to get back to ushering. But he'd heard that that was a great show and didn't want to miss it.
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I've heard great things about The Pillowman and don't want to miss that. :)
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But first, I'm off to my parents' house for a bit, then I'll leave for Tacoma from there.
Be back later...much later!
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Good afternoon.
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DR TCB congrats on your mew furniture. I hope you are pleased with it.
That's what it becomes after Nicky gets on it.
:)
:))
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One of the actors is a neighbor, and his wife was in Fun Home that I just saw last night...which reminds me, I saw (former) DR Jed at Fun Home last night. He said that Ann stayed home with the kids. We couldn't chat for very long. I had to get back to ushering. But he'd heard that that was a great show and didn't want to miss it.
:)
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Wonderful dinner before the show. Oysters, porcini-crusted halibut and asparagus.
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I hope this cast is good.
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It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day today
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Vixdad is spending the weekend nursing a cold
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So being a loving, doting, comforting sort of wife
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I totally deserted him and made an impromptu trip into the city to see if I could get a SRO ticket to Network
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I couldn't
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All sold out
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Except for one single fifth row center orchestra seat
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The show was marvelous
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And eating and paying your bills are overrated pastimes
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Nick Wyman, (who also played the Governor in Desperate Measures) played the Network CEO
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Tony Goldwyn was the head of the news division
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And of course Bryan Cranston, who well earned that Tony nomination
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Finally back from seeing a musical. This thing has gotten across the board raves (although I've already been told that our own Rob Stevens will be a voice in the wilderness as he did not like it) and that speaks to LA critics really knowing nothing about musical theater, or simply cheerleading. Because I am here to tell you it was terrible in every way. The book can't make up its mind about the tone, you don't care about anyone - I just could not believe it, really. The score for the second act is literally reprises (maybe there's one new song), the lyrics are of the "I wouldn't know a rhyme if it hit me in the face" variety, and the music is all the same four chords over and over again. It's a musical version of the Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, written the film's screenwriter. They have spent, I'm told, $500,000 on this thing that's in a theater with about seventy-five seats. A huge amount of lighting equipment has been brought in, a complete sound package, a five-piece band, seventeen actors (with the understudies), one of LA's most expensive set designers, and on and on. A supposedly up and coming director who's from UCLA and graduated a few years ago - one minute we're supposed to be moved, the next minute it's a farce with a caricature of a hit man/villain - and the leading character, who should be Bronco Billy, is a cypher in this version - he's there but the show doesn't revolve around him - he's always lurking but never really driving.
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Then we had some pizza at nearby Palermo's.
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DR VIXMOM knows the BEST people......
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I remember the Playtex bra commercial that was running when NETWORK was in theatres....
Lots of women were hanging out of their apartment windows and waving their undergarments and yelling: "This bra doesn't fit and I'm not wearing it anymore...."
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There are other CE films I would like to see musicals of.....but none of them come to mind at the moment.....
Oh....maybe RETURN OF THE CREATURE....
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DR VIXMOM knows the BEST people......
We were waiting here in the apartment with steak in case she called afterwards, so we just ate it ourselves. :)
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Liam/LeeLee finally said I'm hungry as hell and can't take it any more.
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Actually we did have steak but we ordered in from Outback Steakhouse. as a treat for ourselves.
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I remember the Playtex bra commercial that was running when NETWORK was in theatres....
Lots of women were hanging out of their apartment windows and waving their undergarments and yelling: "This bra doesn't fit and I'm not wearing it anymore...."
Was that the living bra?
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Finally back from seeing a musical. This thing has gotten across the board raves (although I've already been told that our own Rob Stevens will be a voice in the wilderness as he did not like it) and that speaks to LA critics really knowing nothing about musical theater, or simply cheerleading. Because I am here to tell you it was terrible in every way. The book can't make up its mind about the tone, you don't care about anyone - I just could not believe it, really. The score for the second act is literally reprises (maybe there's one new song), the lyrics are of the "I wouldn't know a rhyme if it hit me in the face" variety, and the music is all the same four chords over and over again. It's a musical version of the Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, written the film's screenwriter. They have spent, I'm told, $500,000 on this thing that's in a theater with about seventy-five seats. A huge amount of lighting equipment has been brought in, a complete sound package, a five-piece band, seventeen actors (with the understudies), one of LA's most expensive set designers, and on and on. A supposedly up and coming director who's from UCLA and graduated a few years ago - one minute we're supposed to be moved, the next minute it's a farce with a caricature of a hit man/villain - and the leading character, who should be Bronco Billy, is a cypher in this version - he's there but the show doesn't revolve around him - he's always lurking but never really driving.
Given that there was no way this would make its money, was this pretty much a backers audition, done in a way to get reviews?
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When Clint Eastwood had the convention moment talking with the empty chair, a writer in the NYTimes suggested a show called "Every Which Way But Lucid."
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I totally deserted him and made an impromptu trip into the city to see if I could get a SRO ticket to Network
;D
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DR VIXMOM knows the BEST people......
We were waiting here in the apartment with steak in case she called afterwards, so we just ate it ourselves. :)
😊
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Great photos Vixmom, and congrats on getting the last seat.
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We had a delicious dinner in Chinatown tonight.
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DR VIXMOM knows the BEST people......
We were waiting here in the apartment with steak in case she called afterwards, so we just ate it ourselves. :)
It was truly unplanned, Vixdad suggested I go in when I got home from church. I didn't have a parking spot or a ticket and just drove in and hoped for the best.
I didn't want to impose my bad self on anyone with no notice at all so I didn't contact any of my NYC loved ones
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DR VIXMOM knows the BEST people......
I do! And they all post on this here site!
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We had a lovely warm day. Tomorrow will be cooler, hopefully without rain.
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DR VIXMOM knows the BEST people......
I do! And they all post on this here site!
:)
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Hamilton was excellent. Sound design was especially good. I could hear and understand each lyric from each actor, except for the Lafayette.
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Let’s move on...
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Five!
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Finally back from seeing a musical. This thing has gotten across the board raves (although I've already been told that our own Rob Stevens will be a voice in the wilderness as he did not like it) and that speaks to LA critics really knowing nothing about musical theater, or simply cheerleading. Because I am here to tell you it was terrible in every way. The book can't make up its mind about the tone, you don't care about anyone - I just could not believe it, really. The score for the second act is literally reprises (maybe there's one new song), the lyrics are of the "I wouldn't know a rhyme if it hit me in the face" variety, and the music is all the same four chords over and over again. It's a musical version of the Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, written the film's screenwriter. They have spent, I'm told, $500,000 on this thing that's in a theater with about seventy-five seats. A huge amount of lighting equipment has been brought in, a complete sound package, a five-piece band, seventeen actors (with the understudies), one of LA's most expensive set designers, and on and on. A supposedly up and coming director who's from UCLA and graduated a few years ago - one minute we're supposed to be moved, the next minute it's a farce with a caricature of a hit man/villain - and the leading character, who should be Bronco Billy, is a cypher in this version - he's there but the show doesn't revolve around him - he's always lurking but never really driving.
Given that there was no way this would make its money, was this pretty much a backers audition, done in a way to get reviews?
Hard to know what their thinking is. With $500K they could have gone to any regional theater - you wave that kind of enhancement money and you get a production. It's that simple. So, yes, I think they thought they'd do this, garner great reviews (almost a guarantee here in LA, although not always), and then who knows what - get it to B'way? Because B'way producers being shown LA reviews is a joke.
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Finally back from seeing a musical. This thing has gotten across the board raves (although I've already been told that our own Rob Stevens will be a voice in the wilderness as he did not like it) and that speaks to LA critics really knowing nothing about musical theater, or simply cheerleading. Because I am here to tell you it was terrible in every way. The book can't make up its mind about the tone, you don't care about anyone - I just could not believe it, really. The score for the second act is literally reprises (maybe there's one new song), the lyrics are of the "I wouldn't know a rhyme if it hit me in the face" variety, and the music is all the same four chords over and over again. It's a musical version of the Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, written the film's screenwriter. They have spent, I'm told, $500,000 on this thing that's in a theater with about seventy-five seats. A huge amount of lighting equipment has been brought in, a complete sound package, a five-piece band, seventeen actors (with the understudies), one of LA's most expensive set designers, and on and on. A supposedly up and coming director who's from UCLA and graduated a few years ago - one minute we're supposed to be moved, the next minute it's a farce with a caricature of a hit man/villain - and the leading character, who should be Bronco Billy, is a cypher in this version - he's there but the show doesn't revolve around him - he's always lurking but never really driving.
Given that there was no way this would make its money, was this pretty much a backers audition, done in a way to get reviews?
Hard to know what their thinking is. With $500K they could have gone to any regional theater - you wave that kind of enhancement money and you get a production. It's that simple. So, yes, I think they thought they'd do this, garner great reviews (almost a guarantee here in LA, although not always), and then who knows what - get it to B'way? Because B'way producers being shown LA reviews is a joke.
Sounds dreadful. But then, I wasn't a fan of the original film, either.
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I saw the musical version of Anna Karenina (how could I not as it was based on one of my top 5 books). There was a song, On a Train, that they kept repeating. So, we joke in intermission that they were going to reprise it as Under a Train when Anna commits suicide.
They didn't, thankfully. But I had the same feeling with Hamilton. He keeps singing I'm not throwin' away my shot. Well, that's just what he does at the end. And thankfully, they didn't repeat that then, either.
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But it's late. And I have a lesson at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
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So, I'm gonna say good night, all.
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I think I have been in a temple ONCE in my life.
I've been to 1 bar mitzvah, that was my only visit to a temple
I was quite confused by the behavior of the worshippers, they just wandered in and out at will and one guy who had a seat up on the dias ( for want of the correct word) kept popping down to wander through the congregation and shake hands....While the Rabbi was speaking and while the bat mitzvah was reciting
in our church you get in before the first hymn and you don't leave until dismissed after the recessional hymn is completed and the altar candles extinguished
And you only greet others before or after the service or at the appointed time for passing the peace.
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Vixdad wore yarmulke ( they were provided in the lobby) out of respect. all during the service different men kept approaching him with a prayer shawl (probably the wrong term) and tried to get him to wear it
He had to keep whispering I don't think I should I'm not Jewish and they would look at him like he was not being truthful, then 10 minutes later some other guy would try ..., like maybe he might change his mind
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Finally back from seeing a musical. This thing has gotten across the board raves (although I've already been told that our own Rob Stevens will be a voice in the wilderness as he did not like it) and that speaks to LA critics really knowing nothing about musical theater, or simply cheerleading. Because I am here to tell you it was terrible in every way. The book can't make up its mind about the tone, you don't care about anyone - I just could not believe it, really. The score for the second act is literally reprises (maybe there's one new song), the lyrics are of the "I wouldn't know a rhyme if it hit me in the face" variety, and the music is all the same four chords over and over again. It's a musical version of the Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, written the film's screenwriter. They have spent, I'm told, $500,000 on this thing that's in a theater with about seventy-five seats. A huge amount of lighting equipment has been brought in, a complete sound package, a five-piece band, seventeen actors (with the understudies), one of LA's most expensive set designers, and on and on. A supposedly up and coming director who's from UCLA and graduated a few years ago - one minute we're supposed to be moved, the next minute it's a farce with a caricature of a hit man/villain - and the leading character, who should be Bronco Billy, is a cypher in this version - he's there but the show doesn't revolve around him - he's always lurking but never really driving.
Given that there was no way this would make its money, was this pretty much a backers audition, done in a way to get reviews?
Hard to know what their thinking is. With $500K they could have gone to any regional theater - you wave that kind of enhancement money and you get a production. It's that simple. So, yes, I think they thought they'd do this, garner great reviews (almost a guarantee here in LA, although not always), and then who knows what - get it to B'way? Because B'way producers being shown LA reviews is a joke.
I have never seen the iriginal film and after reading the synopsis I don't think I care to
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The Bronco Billy film has its charms.
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Good evening.
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Thank you for the good wishes about the new furniture.
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Thank you for the good wishes about the new furniture.
I started to write, “about the new musical.”
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I guess i have BRONCO BILLY on the brain.
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If they are going to make a musical out of a Clint Eastwood film, I think they should do PLAY MISTY FOR ME. And then not play it!
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When they recently did LAURA here in town, the director was adamant that he would not use the song during the production. I said why not play it after the curtain call, when he audience was filing out, but he refused.
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I told him he was going to have a lot of unhappy senior citizen audience members who came to the show just to hear the song.
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But first, I'm off to my parents' house for a bit, then I'll leave for Tacoma from there.
Be back later...much later!
I'm home.
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Hi, Tom.
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The shortened show was very good and very well done. I didn't see their original complete version, so there's a lot that I don't know. However, I wasn't the only one there who knew nothing about the whole show.
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Turns out, that was the least of his problems. Apparently a lot of audience members did not care for the production.
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Chris, the managing artistic director, gave the requisite curtain speech and he talked about what was going on with the festival and that they are one of only 12 groups in the finals, from over 1000 who initially entered the process.
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The stage was set with their set in a 10x10 foot square that all the sets have to fit into (one at a time, of course ;) ).
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The competitors then each have specifically no more than 10 minutes to assemble their set, then no more than 60 minutes to do their play, then no more than 10 minutes to strike their set and put it all back into that 10x10 foot square. AND they're not allowed to take bows! :o What's that all about??
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I like the idea of DR TCB buying furniture with his library card....why is he only getting half a sectional on Friday?
The other half has fourteen ‘holds” a head of me.
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They're pretty specific about the time, too. Chris said that one group was eliminated because they went eight, count 'em, EIGHT seconds over!
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They're trying to raise $15,000, and as of tonight, they have $9,200. Hopefully, they can get the rest quickly enough and not have to forfeit because they can't get there.
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And now, I'm home.
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I like how TCB can tell a story at crazy hours line by line, and have it build so well.
Do you write it that way, or do you write it all and then post it line by line?
LOL! It is totally off the cuff, my friend.
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DR TCB congrats on your mew furniture. I hope you are pleased with it.
Thank you. I hope so, too.
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Nick Wyman, (who also played the Governor in Desperate Measures) played the Network CEO
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5779.0;attach=9193)
Nice!
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Two years with 0 interest!
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I like how TCB can tell a story at crazy hours line by line, and have it build so well.
Do you write it that way, or do you write it all and then post it line by line?
LOL! It is totally off the cuff, my friend.
I write my paragraph then post it line by line.
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Two years with 0 interest!
Very good!
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Tony Goldwyn was the head of the news division
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5779.0;attach=9195)
Cool! The one time I went to NYC, I saw him and Laura Linney in Holiday at Circle in the Square. It was great!
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Oh, look! It's Page Six! :D
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And of course Bryan Cranston, who well earned that Tony nomination
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5779.0;attach=9197)
That's a great picture, Vixmom!
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And of course Bryan Cranston, who well earned that Tony nomination
Are you sure you didn’t photoshop Bryan into that photo?
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Finally back from seeing a musical. This thing has gotten across the board raves (although I've already been told that our own Rob Stevens will be a voice in the wilderness as he did not like it) and that speaks to LA critics really knowing nothing about musical theater, or simply cheerleading. Because I am here to tell you it was terrible in every way. The book can't make up its mind about the tone, you don't care about anyone - I just could not believe it, really. The score for the second act is literally reprises (maybe there's one new song), the lyrics are of the "I wouldn't know a rhyme if it hit me in the face" variety, and the music is all the same four chords over and over again. It's a musical version of the Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, written the film's screenwriter. They have spent, I'm told, $500,000 on this thing that's in a theater with about seventy-five seats. A huge amount of lighting equipment has been brought in, a complete sound package, a five-piece band, seventeen actors (with the understudies), one of LA's most expensive set designers, and on and on. A supposedly up and coming director who's from UCLA and graduated a few years ago - one minute we're supposed to be moved, the next minute it's a farce with a caricature of a hit man/villain - and the leading character, who should be Bronco Billy, is a cypher in this version - he's there but the show doesn't revolve around him - he's always lurking but never really driving.
Yikes! That really doesn't sound good. :-\
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Turns out, that was the least of his problems. Apparently a lot of audience members did not care for the production.
Do you know why? I enjoyed it.
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Turns out, that was the least of his problems. Apparently a lot of audience members did not care for the production.
Do you know why? I enjoyed it.
I know you did. Number one complaint I have heard is that they didn’t like the two leads,
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Wow. The Internet Broadway Database (https://www.ibdb.com/) has completely updated its website! It's going to take some time to get used to it.
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I love Tony Goldwyn. Except in GHOST, of course.
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Wow. The Internet Broadway Database (https://www.ibdb.com/) has completely updated its website! It's going to take some time to get used to it.
I don’t like it.
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Wow. The Internet Broadway Database (https://www.ibdb.com/) has completely updated its website! It's going to take some time to get used to it.
I don’t like it.
I don't either. :P
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Good evening, NW. How's everyone feeling?
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NETWORK is playing in what theater? It looks familiar, but I can’t place it.
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Hi, jan.
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Hi, Sugar! Are you all packed and ready? How's your back doing?
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Oh, it is playing at the Belasco.