Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 18, 2019, 01:38:22 AM
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Well, you've - SPOILER ALERT - read the notes, the notes had spoiler alerts galore, and now it is time for you to post until the - SPOILER ALERT - cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SPECULATE!
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First post after BK.
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BK, will/does this cut of The Creature Wasn't Nice use Broderick Crawford's voice?
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all,
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Good morning, all!
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I must be out of the apartment no later than 8:15 to make my appointment this morning.
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I have no idea how the weather will be during my peregrinations this morning. It's a day of rain, but I'd rather be wet than in the sun.
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The CBS news is playing bits of the asshole Tramp's rally last night. What an ugly sonofabitch.
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Patrol was a complete disaster. Noises from an apartment on the first floor spooked Annabelle and she refused to do anything but get back on the elevator and come home.
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Good morning, all.
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I should be getting ready for work. Instead I sit here typing away.
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J.B. is squawking in the background, demanding attention.
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TOD:
Turkey Lurkey Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgG6C_J33s
On the 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYoRwQWgA5c
Let's Take a Glass Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCvQ4ikZZQ
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Good morning, all.
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Suddenly this is a horrendously busy day.
Coffee!
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More coffee!
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Good morning!
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I'm glad to have electricity again. It went off at about 5:30 pm and finally came back at 2:50 am.
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T.O.D.
What's My Line (Mystery guest)
The Jack Benny Show
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I was perusing DR GEORGE's coin collection....nice stuff.
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Vibes for DR JANE that her head feels better today.
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thanks to MR BK for answering the question yesterday....and I would agree with his choices.....and DR JOHN G's additions.
I will add:
Charley Chase who was a bit of an "every man" character and particularly his silents although he made shorts into the 1940's.
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I love to look at shows on YouTube and see the different choreography for numbers around the country....most of it is not good - but now and then you see something very clever....
And of course numbers from old variety shows....and has DR DRUXY said WHAT'S MY LINE.
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thanks to MR BK for answering the question yesterday....and I would agree with his choices.....and DR JOHN G's additions.
I will add:
Charley Chase who was a bit of an "every man" character and particularly his silents although he made shorts into the 1940's.
Thank you for this reminder, DR Jrand68.
I do love Laurel & Hardy, but I, too, would be hard put to watch a whole lot of them at a time. I'd also say that about Abbott & Costello, with whom I have much less familiarity. In fact, I can't think of much I do know about them aside from the Who's On First routine.
Charlie Chaplin, goes without saying. Genius.
I haven't seen all that much Buster Keaton and don't have a feel for him or his material.
Harold Lloyd is someone I really admire now, but that only started last fall with my spending a lot of time studying THE FRESHMAN when I played in that orchestra for it.
I'd never even heard of Charley Chase until I attended a film festival a few years ago where they played a couple of his films. Absolutely wonderful, and I want to see more.
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Okay, break's over. Back to work.
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Vibes for DR JANE that her head feels better today.
Thank you. I expect it to imrove with activity.
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I am home. I entered the wrong appointment time, so I arrived an hour early. I could have used the time to run the errands I had top do after the appointment. As soon as I left the apartment, the rain began. I got home completely soaked. I hope this ois not an omen of my life for the future.
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Could be worse -- like, the way I first read it: "I entered the wrong apartment..."
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That would definitely be worse ;D
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Thursday afternoon greetings! I slept, for me, quite late today. My book group is having a potluck dinner tonight, for which I assembled lasagna yesterday. Looking forward to seeing my friends.
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I'm up, I'm up - just about eight hours of sleep.
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That would definitely be worse ;D
I could hardly believe this myself when I heard it, first hand, from my director friend the other day:
He and another friend were out driving somewhere and they stopped at a store for something. My friend (the driver) waited in the car while the other got out and went inside and did his stuff. When he came back out to the parking lot, he opened the passenger side door and got in, announcing, "okay, I'm all set now!" The driver looked over in a state of alarm, which was probably nothing compared with what the friend felt as he realized he had gotten into the wrong car.
Everyone was lucky that day. No one freaked out or pulled a gun or anything. Bumbling apologies were made and the situation was quickly if shakily rectified.
But ..... I can't even imagine. Can't. Even. Imagine.
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That reads like your typical urban legend, so it's nice for a change when you get told something by someone who's 100% reliable and trustworthy. about something that literally just happened to them.
And it's what can happen when said person is driving the new car they've only had for a few weeks, so that the other friend, far from being acclimated to it himself, is looking for what he "assumes" is that new car, in that new color...
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Okay, back to work again.
PIPPIN, if you must know. And you must, you must.
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And then I must feed some cats.
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And then I must get ready to return to OZ.
You know. That son of a bitch.
Which BTW looked pretty good last night, and it's performed very well. But if I were Mr. Producer, I would have thrown a few more dollars at a couple of the special effects and had them look spectacular instead of passable.
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That would definitely be worse ;D
I could hardly believe this myself when I heard it, first hand, from my director friend the other day:
He and another friend were out driving somewhere and they stopped at a store for something. My friend (the driver) waited in the car while the other got out and went inside and did his stuff. When he came back out to the parking lot, he opened the passenger side door and got in, announcing, "okay, I'm all set now!" The driver looked over in a state of alarm, which was probably nothing compared with what the friend felt as he realized he had gotten into the wrong car.
Everyone was lucky that day. No one freaked out or pulled a gun or anything. Bumbling apologies were made and the situation was quickly if shakily rectified.
But ..... I can't even imagine. Can't. Even. Imagine.
The woman who parked in-between the store entrance & an identical car was not all that surprised when I jumped into her passenger seat. Fortunately she began laughing while her young daughter was startled & confused ;D
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BK and others might have seen this already, but just in case:
Someone posted the link to another L.A. film on YouTube. It's one I hadn't seen, a corporate thing from 1954 -- "This is Los Angeles, Your Blue Chip Market" -- but there's nearly a half hour of it so there are a number of interesting locations covered even though it's well before my time there. I could only skim it, will have to watch thoroughly later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ix2GiENpXY&feature=youtu.be
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TOD:
Turkey Lurkey Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgG6C_J33s
On the 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYoRwQWgA5c
Let's Take a Glass Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCvQ4ikZZQ
Ditto to all three of these!! ;D
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I was perusing DR GEORGE's coin collection....nice stuff.
Thanks, Jrand. A lot of the Canadian coins are fairly current and I have them just because they're Canadian coins. But I think I can slowly integrate the pennies into US circulation without any trouble. ;)
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Years ago, I overheard someone say "You can't devalue the penny." Makes sense to me.
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Okay, break's over. Back to work.
I hate it when that happens. ::)
:D
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That would definitely be worse ;D
I could hardly believe this myself when I heard it, first hand, from my director friend the other day:
He and another friend were out driving somewhere and they stopped at a store for something. My friend (the driver) waited in the car while the other got out and went inside and did his stuff. When he came back out to the parking lot, he opened the passenger side door and got in, announcing, "okay, I'm all set now!" The driver looked over in a state of alarm, which was probably nothing compared with what the friend felt as he realized he had gotten into the wrong car.
Everyone was lucky that day. No one freaked out or pulled a gun or anything. Bumbling apologies were made and the situation was quickly if shakily rectified.
But ..... I can't even imagine. Can't. Even. Imagine.
:o
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:))
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BK and others might have seen this already, but just in case:
Someone posted the link to another L.A. film on YouTube. It's one I hadn't seen, a corporate thing from 1954 -- "This is Los Angeles, Your Blue Chip Market" -- but there's nearly a half hour of it so there are a number of interesting locations covered even though it's well before my time there. I could only skim it, will have to watch thoroughly later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ix2GiENpXY&feature=youtu.be
That's pretty cool, ChasSmith.
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A high school friend is in Portland visiting her brother. She is on her way here to spend the afternoon with us. Joining her will be her 99 year old mother, her daughter, and granddaughter. Four generations. I wish we had a four generation family.
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A high school friend is in Portland visiting her brother. She is on her way here to spend the afternoon with us. Joining her will be her 99 year old mother, her daughter, and granddaughter. Four generations. I wish we had a four generation family.
When my niece was born, her dad's side got a picture of five, count 'em, five generations! Granted, that was 35 years ago and the two oldest have since died (and her dad, but not because of age), but it was my niece, her dad and aunt, her grandmother, her great-grandmother and her great-great-grandmother.
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Well, this is interesting...Paul McCartney is adapting 'It's a Wonderful Life' as a stage musical (https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/07/17/paul-mccartney-adapting-its-wonderful-life-stage-musical/1763335001/).
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Good afternoon.
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I am sorry to have been absent yesterday. Family crisis.
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Well, this is interesting...Paul McCartney is adapting 'It's a Wonderful Life' as a stage musical (https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/07/17/paul-mccartney-adapting-its-wonderful-life-stage-musical/1763335001/).
This could be very interesting..... or not. Actually, considering the story, he could use, "Live and Let Die."
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Thursday afternoon greetings! I slept, for me, quite late today. My book group is having a potluck dinner tonight, for which I assembled lasagna yesterday. Looking forward to seeing my friends.
I thought this was where you came to see your friends! And lasagna sounds good to me.
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TOD:
Turkey Lurkey Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgG6C_J33s
On the 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYoRwQWgA5c
Let's Take a Glass Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCvQ4ikZZQ
I would agree with one and three. Also, THE BOY FROM OZ.
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I am sorry to have been absent yesterday. Family crisis.
:(
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That would definitely be worse ;D
I could hardly believe this myself when I heard it, first hand, from my director friend the other day:
He and another friend were out driving somewhere and they stopped at a store for something. My friend (the driver) waited in the car while the other got out and went inside and did his stuff. When he came back out to the parking lot, he opened the passenger side door and got in, announcing, "okay, I'm all set now!" The driver looked over in a state of alarm, which was probably nothing compared with what the friend felt as he realized he had gotten into the wrong car.
Everyone was lucky that day. No one freaked out or pulled a gun or anything. Bumbling apologies were made and the situation was quickly if shakily rectified.
But ..... I can't even imagine. Can't. Even. Imagine.
I pulled something similar when I was a wee tyke. My brother Macbeth and my cousins Judy and Jeanne had gone to a movie and we were waiting outside the Paramount theatre for my uncle to pick us up. A car pulled up, I thought it was my uncle's, opened the door to the back seat, climbed in and said, "It's about time you got here." My uncle pulled up just behind the car and I hastily withdrew.
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I think - and hope - I just finished How To Succeed . . .
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DR Laura, today Stella met Da Bird! She and Thatch had a good time.
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Family vibes for TCB.
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I’ve been in too many meetings today.
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Three!
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Insert exploding head here.
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I wanna go home and read. But I can’t do that.
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Hello, everyone.
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DR George beat me to it. I saw an article on Paul McCartney's new musical on the BBC news this morning, but now of course it's gone. It's not the first time this has happened. Apparently, Sheldon Harnick wrote the music for an earlier version, but somehow it didn't go anywhere.
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Larry, I hope this morning's sinus procedure wasn't too horrible. Or was today a pre-op?
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That would definitely be worse ;D
I could hardly believe this myself when I heard it, first hand, from my director friend the other day:
He and another friend were out driving somewhere and they stopped at a store for something. My friend (the driver) waited in the car while the other got out and went inside and did his stuff. When he came back out to the parking lot, he opened the passenger side door and got in, announcing, "okay, I'm all set now!" The driver looked over in a state of alarm, which was probably nothing compared with what the friend felt as he realized he had gotten into the wrong car.
Everyone was lucky that day. No one freaked out or pulled a gun or anything. Bumbling apologies were made and the situation was quickly if shakily rectified.
But ..... I can't even imagine. Can't. Even. Imagine.
The woman who parked in-between the store entrance & an identical car was not all that surprised when I jumped into her passenger seat. Fortunately she began laughing while her young daughter was startled & confused ;D
Embarrassing, but I can see how getting into the wrong car could happen. I'm glad she took it so well.
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I'm a big fan of both flash mobs and street piano.
Here's some great street piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-KH8DOaR3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avlOGya53IU
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I spent an hour on the phone with my friend the holistic pharmacist and we reviewed the medications for my upcoming procedures. He always gives me a little pep talk, too, about standing firm when others are obnoxious and looking out for what's best for me. After all these years, yes, I still need to be reminded.
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TTFN.
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Larry, I hope this morning's sinus procedure wasn't too horrible. Or was today a pre-op?
It was a follow-up. I need to see a surgeon and an allergist. I need to be sure of my HMO referrals before I proceed.
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Cats is coming. Run. Hide.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/07/18/cats-trailer-dropped-we-have-questions/?utm_term=.d2fb8a91653a
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Back from a viewing of The Creature Wasn't Nice. Marshall did a fantastic job, adding sfx, more music (really helpful) and making a few light trims. As we watched, I suggested several more trims, several more places to add music, and even a couple more Broderick Crawford lines - he'd already added a few. All of it is so helpful and is close to what I ultimately would have done had I been allowed to. So, it will be about two minutes shorter when he does the additional cuts, and he'll add more music and stuff and we'll watch it again next week, but my mind is made up and we'll definitely put this out, along with their version and maybe even the full frame version. With lots of extras, a commentary track, etc.
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Had my two slices of leftover pizza - good. Not enough food for the day. Also picked up the audio files.
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DR George beat me to it. I saw an article on Paul McCartney's new musical on the BBC news this morning, but now of course it's gone. It's not the first time this has happened. Apparently, Sheldon Harnick wrote the music for an earlier version, but somehow it didn't go anywhere.
At least one local theater company produced this show. It wasn't bad, but I didn't love it.
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Well, I'm off to the theater. Tonight will a sign language interpreted performance of Man of La Mancha. I'm sure it'll be good.
Be back later.
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Back from a viewing of The Creature Wasn't Nice. Marshall did a fantastic job, adding sfx, more music (really helpful) and making a few light trims. As we watched, I suggested several more trims, several more places to add music, and even a couple more Broderick Crawford lines - he'd already added a few. All of it is so helpful and is close to what I ultimately would have done had I been allowed to. So, it will be about two minutes shorter when he does the additional cuts, and he'll add more music and stuff and we'll watch it again next week, but my mind is made up and we'll definitely put this out, along with their version and maybe even the full frame version. With lots of extras, a commentary track, etc.
Hoo and Ray!! :D
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And NOW I'm off!
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A high school friend is in Portland visiting her brother. She is on her way here to spend the afternoon with us. Joining her will be her 99 year old mother, her daughter, and granddaughter. Four generations. I wish we had a four generation family.
When my niece was born, her dad's side got a picture of five, count 'em, five generations! Granted, that was 35 years ago and the two oldest have since died (and her dad, but not because of age), but it was my niece, her dad and aunt, her grandmother, her great-grandmother and her great-great-grandmother.
I hope that photo is something to cherish.
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That would definitely be worse ;D
I could hardly believe this myself when I heard it, first hand, from my director friend the other day:
He and another friend were out driving somewhere and they stopped at a store for something. My friend (the driver) waited in the car while the other got out and went inside and did his stuff. When he came back out to the parking lot, he opened the passenger side door and got in, announcing, "okay, I'm all set now!" The driver looked over in a state of alarm, which was probably nothing compared with what the friend felt as he realized he had gotten into the wrong car.
Everyone was lucky that day. No one freaked out or pulled a gun or anything. Bumbling apologies were made and the situation was quickly if shakily rectified.
But ..... I can't even imagine. Can't. Even. Imagine.
The woman who parked in-between the store entrance & an identical car was not all that surprised when I jumped into her passenger seat. Fortunately she began laughing while her young daughter was startled & confused ;D
Embarrassing, but I can see how getting into the wrong car could happen. I'm glad she took it so well.
Keith was laughing in our car. He too wasn't surprised I did that. I was almost as shocked as the daughter. Once the woman began laughing I did :)
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I spent an hour on the phone with my friend the holistic pharmacist and we reviewed the medications for my upcoming procedures. He always gives me a little pep talk, too, about standing firm when others are obnoxious and looking out for what's best for me. After all these years, yes, I still need to be reminded.
I think we all need to be reminded from time to time.
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DR TCB I hope the family crisis is better today.
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Family vibes to TCB!
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BK - Great to hear the CREATURE developments!
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I read "entered wrong apartment" as well
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Last time we were all in Canada we rented a big truck
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Coming back to the truck in the parking i hit the unlock button and then opened the back door (it was one of those 4 door cabs) to put some things in , badly startling the man sitting in the drivers seat
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Being he was Canadian he just said, "excuse me ma'am, may I help you with something?"
Badly startling ME
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Vixdad almost split a gut laughing at me
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Our truck was in the space on the other side if the truck I entered
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Vixdad's vechicle is back from the shop
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Hoo and ray
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Being he was Canadian he just said, "excuse me ma'am, may I help you with something?"
Badly startling ME
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Vixdad almost split a gut laughing at me
;D
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Vibes for TCB and family
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Our truck was in the space on the other side if the truck I entered
Of course.
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Hoo and ray
:)
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Great news about the Creature. I'm really looking forward to the version that's closer to your original vision.
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In line with the phlegmatic notes today (in which one does pronounce the g), I've been listen to Faulkner's The Hamlet in which one character is named Flem Snopes. When you only hear the book, it might as well be Phlegm.
I think that was Oscar Hammerstein's first draft of the lyric.
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I'm starting to watch The Tamarind Seed with Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif and Dan O'Herlihy. I've never seen this one.
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Gratuitous post No. 100!
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I, on the other hand, am relaxing and listening to the Bronislau Kaper/Villa-Lobos score to Green Mansions. Lush.
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Back from a viewing of The Creature Wasn't Nice. Marshall did a fantastic job, adding sfx, more music (really helpful) and making a few light trims. As we watched, I suggested several more trims, several more places to add music, and even a couple more Broderick Crawford lines - he'd already added a few. All of it is so helpful and is close to what I ultimately would have done had I been allowed to. So, it will be about two minutes shorter when he does the additional cuts, and he'll add more music and stuff and we'll watch it again next week, but my mind is made up and we'll definitely put this out, along with their version and maybe even the full frame version. With lots of extras, a commentary track, etc.
This is EXCELLENT news. Been waiting a long to for this, and I'm so glad to hear it.
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Just watched the Cats trailer. What a scary, creepy, ugly movie it promises to be. I will be happy to miss it.
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Looking forward to seeing this production of 42nd Street with new choreography.
http://www.playbill.com/article/kelli-ohara-led-the-king-and-i-west-ends-kinky-boots-more-heading-to-pbs-great-performances
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I need to get to bed.
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Good night, all.
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Good news about the Creature wasn't nice....I look forward to hearing more as thus developes
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Vixdad delights in watching Russian car crashes as captured on car cameras
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I have been watching interviews and musical performances on the youtube
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Good evening.
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Laura, I love your explanation of Les Mis factory scene
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Bedtime for this chicky
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I am crashing.
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I'm starting to watch The Tamarind Seed with Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif and Dan O'Herlihy. I've never seen this one.
Every now and then, a few times a year, there was a movie at Radio City Music Hall that seemed really at odds with that theater's regular audience'sneeds.. "The Tamarind Seed" felt so wrong, even more weird than the Mia farrow "See No Evil."
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Good evening.
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Page 4? Really?
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My TV service has been off all evening
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So it has been a quiet night.
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One more post.
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Page Five!
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Hello, vixmom!
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What are you doing up at this time of the morning?
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Did the vixter and vixhubby go on a honeymoon?
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Finished with my viewing. I hadn't intended to watch an entire film, but I got caught up in it and did.
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I suppose I could have watched something on my iPad, but I didn’t think of it.
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I did watch a couple of things on YouTube.
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Mostly Village People clips.
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Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland. The trailer is interesting. I wonder if she is singing for Judy?
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Alone again....
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Naturally!
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I just watched a cheapie YouTube clip entitled, 15 TRAGIC STORIES ABOUT THE LIFE OF JUDY GARLAND.
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#13 or 14 says that Judy found fourth husband, Mark Herron, in bed with Liza’s husband Peter Allen. I suppose that is possible, but it goes on to say that after Judy divorced him he returned to Peter Allen and they remained lovers for the next 25 years.
NOT TRUE!
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Oh well, what’s a little more dirt under the carpet, or even on top of it.
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After all, everyone is now deceased, except for Liza.
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Well, good night folks,
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A high school friend is in Portland visiting her brother. She is on her way here to spend the afternoon with us. Joining her will be her 99 year old mother, her daughter, and granddaughter. Four generations. I wish we had a four generation family.
When my niece was born, her dad's side got a picture of five, count 'em, five generations! Granted, that was 35 years ago and the two oldest have since died (and her dad, but not because of age), but it was my niece, her dad and aunt, her grandmother, her great-grandmother and her great-great-grandmother.
I hope that photo is something to cherish.
It is. My niece still has a copy of that picture.
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Oh, and I'm home.
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Tonight's Man of La Mancha was really good!
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As expected, it really did improve over the last couple of weeks.
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The audience was almost full, and they had two sign language interpreters for all the characters except Aldonza, because that actress is actually deaf and she signed for herself.
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When I saw it the first time at their final preview, I wasn't sure about having both a signing character (with another person singing for her) AND having some of the actors play the instruments, but tonight, I really didn't have a problem with that.
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It was all so much better so that it was all of a piece.
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They have this weekend and next weekend left of their run.
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I might try to usher for it again.
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I'll have to wait and see about what might be happening next weekend.
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Topic of the Day:
The Manhattan Transfer
Postmodern Jukebox
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Also...
Kathy Griffin
Seth Meyers
Stephen Colbert
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As well as the channels...
Preppy Kitchen (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTvYEid8tmg0jqGPDkehc_Q)
And
Taco Stacks (https://m.youtube.com/user/Scrima21) (total guilty pleasure)
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And now, since we're so close...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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Whew!
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;)
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Now, I need to ketchup on tonight's posts.
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Just watched the Cats trailer. What a scary, creepy, ugly movie it promises to be. I will be happy to miss it.
I agree with your assessment of the trailer, but I confess that I will see the movie. ::)
;)
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Looking forward to seeing this production of 42nd Street with new choreography.
http://www.playbill.com/article/kelli-ohara-led-the-king-and-i-west-ends-kinky-boots-more-heading-to-pbs-great-performances
That's so cool!! :D
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Laura, I love your explanation of Les Mis factory scene
Ditto!! :))
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My TV service has been off all evening
Now, THAT'S a tragedy! :'(