Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 3 => Topic started by: bk on June 19, 2005, 10:11:10 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've imagined in your mind's eye BK eating a Boca Burger, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, and they WILL be coming home since we were all eating veggie burgers.
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Yeah, Ann is coming down with something!
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First Post!
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And the word of the day is: PHILISTINE!
New notes are up.
And now - Dino at the piano.
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And the word of the day is: PHILISTINE!
And the Question is: What was Phyllis Newman's name before she got into show business?
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I was hoping someone would say it, TCB.
How many here have eaten a Boca Burger?
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RE: the Joe Mantello incident from yesterday's post. this may be the incident I was thinking about. I don't remember the outcome of his particular battle (i.e. can a director's blocking and ideas be copyrightable), but I'm pretty sure that directors cannot claim any share of the published script or do anything like that which would dilute authorship or writer's royalties. Wish I had all my Dramatist Guild magazines around so I could find out the outcome of this case. Can't choreographers copyright choreography for ballets and such. But also isn't there any actual choreographic notation where that stuff can be recorded like notes on a sheet of music? My memory is that directors' ideas were not copyrightable but I could be very wrong about that.
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I've sampled a few vegetarian alternative foods, and must admit to finding a few of them halfway decent, but don't think I've ever tried the Boca Burger.
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You're all looking at my this, aren't you?
Calorie-wise, I was very good today - only ate the Boca Burger, which, with bun and everything, was a total of 200 calories. I had a small piece of cake and one piece of fudge, so I think I'm well under 1000 calories for the day - if I could do THAT everyday I'd be thinner in no time. But, that's very difficult for me to do these days.
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I'll stay down here another five minutes, then I must go up to the room and relax.
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Okie doke, I'm just too too tired, so I'm on my way to the room. I shall return on the 'morrow.
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TOD: If money were no object, I would live in London without a doubt...at least four or five months of the year, if not all year around. It is the most exciting city in the world. I would want to live right in the heart of the West End. I love a city that has a pulse and center and that you can walk in.
Sometime The Lovely Wife and I might consider returning to Kentucky...probably Lexington, for a slower, more gracious style of living. Traffic and other annoyances in Los Angeles seem to get greater every year. And I hate the driving time one has to log to get anywhere...Going out becomes such a project.
BK, I believe I've eaten a Boca Burger (doesn't Trader Joe's sell them?). The Lovely Wife has picked them up occasionally in her various semi-vegetarian binges.
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I'm here! The 2005 PNW HHW Gathering (with guests) was delightful! Conversation was sparkling and lively and, as BK said, dirt was dished...and secrets were told! HOWEVER, said secrets will never be revealed here until it's time to tell (and not by me). Cryptic, ain't it?? ;)
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Anyway, time for pictures! Here is the HHW Group (with guest Adair):
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And here is our host, Jeff, out on his second story deck:
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Here's a close-up of Mike (MBarnum):
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Living in New Zealand would be fine - South Island. Perhaps Christchurch or Dunedin. Almost no language problems either.
I quite like the gentle pace of rural France and Spain too.
If I could cope with both the language and the cold, Upsala in Sweden would be good place to live.
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BK - To check to see if your internal modem is set up:
Click on the Apple in the upper left hand of your screen
Click on System Preferences
Under "Internet & Network" Click on Network
Click on Modem (right hand side of the bar menu)
Check the boxes for "Enable Error Correction..." and "Wait for dial tone.." if they are not checked.
Then make sure Dialing is set to "Tone" - unless the Arlington Club still uses "pulse" dialing. Set your sound Off or On. And, finally, make sure your country setting is USA.
Click Apply Now.
That should do it. Usually the internal modem is always on.
*However, if you're connecting via AOL, AOL's modem set-up should have done that automatically.
**Also remember, that if you're using the "Bring Your Own Access" plan, then once you dial into AOL, you will automaticaly be charged the standard monthly fee.
***Did you check with the hotel to see if their phone lines are configured to handle internet calls, and/or if you have to set up the dialer to add a "9," or "8," before dialing out?
****Would you able to hook your laptop into the hotel's system via an ethernet cable in their business center?
-I think that's enough asterisk's for now.
;)
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Great photographs. Thank you George. It's almost like family holiday snap shots.
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Great photographs. Thank you George. It's almost like family holiday snap shots.
You're welcome! And thank you! But here are a couple more. Here's Bruce Blanchard, who was in the 1994 Hello, Dolly! that BK recorded (for some reason, these "performing" pictures are blurry...I know not why ::)):
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And here are Adair and Bruce (not BK) singing together (for this one picture, I used the flash):
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Good Morning!
As for where I'd want to live...
After visiting Australia two years ago - WOW! has it really been two years already?!!? - I'd love to down there. Great people. Great cities. Great variety. Truly "no worries".
Otherwise, I really want to live in New York City. But I'd really like to live it up in New York City too. A great big loft space in SoHo, and/or one of the brownstones in the Village or Turtle Bay - I could be one of Mr. Sondheim's neighbors.
Other places of appeal - Southern France, Po Valley; Switzerland; and/or Vienna, Austria - all the musical history there!
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You're welcome! And thank you! But here are a couple more. Here's Bruce Blanchard, who was in the 1994 Hello, Dolly! that BK recorded (for some reason, these "performing" pictures are blurry...I know not why ::)):
Well, it looks like he was in motion, so... blurs are acceptable.
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And I'm digging the artwork on the walls too!
DR JMK - Who's the artist?
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It is the "no worries" aspect that is the most appealing for me too Jose. Spain's "manana" attitude is similar. It is still not difficult to escape the stress of urban living in OZ.
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And guess what?? Although he didn't stay long (and didn't perform), Guy Haines actually made an appearance!!
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RE: Boca Burgers - I've had them before too. I like them. They definitely ain't meat, but they'll do in a pinch. They are relatively low in calories and fat, but I find that one is not enough to satisfy my hunger usually. So, I usually make two. With cheese.
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But I usually eat them straight off the plate, no bread, no bun. Eating them on bread just emphasizes their vegan-ness to me. But I'm strange that way.
I also like them nuked in the microwave rather than pan-fried or on the grill. To each his own.
Bocas do come in other varieties other than "Original" - Flame Grilled, Roasted Garlic, etc. My favorite is the Garden Vegetable which has, what else, vegetables in it as well as some cheese and spices. Quite tasty.
Oh, and I also like Boca's "Chik'n" line of products. I usually end up buying a box of the Chik'n Hot & Spicy Buffalo Wings if they're on sale.
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And guess what?? Although he didn't stay long (and didn't perform), Guy Haines actually made an appearance!!
OMG!!!
I would have loved to have been there when BK and Guy Haines realized that they've both been shopping at Armani Wells, and that they were sold the same shirt!
I bet the look on their faces was priceless!
;D
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Yesterday (actually, earlier tonight), MBarnum wrote:
For the first half of the evening I was pretty much a wall flower...in a room full of show business type folks it is a little hard to divert any attention away from them! LOL! But the conversations were quite fascinating....
As I said, it was a bit overwhelming to see BK in real life..just knowing him from his film roles and from this here sight...and I have to say he is one of the funniest people I have ever met!
When he was talking about a fairly well known actor who is gay and who lives in close vicinity to BK's own home, and how said actor flirted with BK...well, I about busted a gut! Even on my drive home, as I would think of BK's expressions and gestures during this story, I was laughing out loud!
I, too, was very much a wall flower. But it was something I'll remember for quite a long time. ;D And the stories were very funny.
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And since we're so close...
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One for BK (and Mahler)! ;)
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Well, I must be going. I'm still house-sitting and Monday night is the last night that I will be staying overnight. But I have to get there now, because the cat is still outside...and she will need to be fed!
So goodnight, all! And thanks BK, for a wonderful evening!
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TOD: If I could live any place in the world, free to travel to any other place whenever I wanted, as well as being free to fly in family and friends for frequent visits, it would be in San Francisco...in the Nob Hill or Russian Hill area. San Francisco is, literally, the most beautiful city in the USA I've seen/visited/been back to.
Otherwise, I would love to be back in South Carolina, on a mountainside overlooking Greenville, SC. Greenville is one of the most beautiful places I've been -- lush greenery in the summer, wonderful seasonal changes without extremes, and an ideal middle location for traveling to visit all the people I wish to grow old with.
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It's great to see the photos of this evening's northwestern festivities.
I'm envious of all the fun and frolic, merriment and music.
Thanks for sharing.
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Damn the torpedoes...full speed ahead!
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More on the director's copyright issue. I did a bit of research on the members website of the Dramatist Guild.
"In a nutshell, it does not appeal that direction is protected by copyright."
There have been instances of directors sending the author's playscript to the copyright office with their director notes scribbled in the margins. Since the copyright office simply accepts these (but does not examine them), directors assume their work is copyrighted. It is not. They are essentially amending and altering work that they have no right to...the playwright's work...as it is already copyrighted.
The Guild goes on:
"At most a director's copyright in written stage directions merely means that no other person can copy the director's written words as they appear in the margins , it does not mean that a second individual cannot reproduce the actual staging."
"Since a claim to copyright by a person other than the author can complicate further exploitation" and production, the guild has all sort s of recommendations how a playwright protects himself from any claim of intellectual property from a director regarding his script.
But basically the position of the copyright office is "copyright only protects the specific expression of an idea, not the idea itself."
It doesn't seem like the guild has any technically position one why or the other regards to the direors' claim that their staging is copyrightable...only in where it might intrude on the further exploitation of the author's play or usurp authorship.
In a letter to the Frank Loesser estate, the copyright office wrote:
"The copyright law protects the expression of an author fixed in any tangible form. With regard to stage directions, this expression will generally be in the form of literary authorship. Reference to 'stage directions" in an aplication, however, does not imply any protection for a manner, style, or method of directing, or for actions dictated by them."
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Can't choreographers copyright choreography for ballets and such. But also isn't there any actual choreographic notation where that stuff can be recorded like notes on a sheet of music? My memory is that directors' ideas were not copyrightable but I could be very wrong about that.
There is a method of notation other than video taping or filming the choreography.
Jerome Robbin's Broadway began as wish for him to have a permament record of his work. He didn't remember everything he did so many of his former dancers and actors helped out. There were also some home movies of his work. And even some of the dances that were notated were fiddled with. The Ballet from The King and I was shortened,
As for Robbings you cannot do West Side Story or Fiddler On the Roof on Broadway or any major venue without his original choreography so this was another reason why he wanted his work to be notated,
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As for TOD:
It would have to NYC for the culture available.
Or LA for the weather,
But since I like Florida, I would like to live about 20 miles south of me in Fort Lauderdale.
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Hello DR Elmore. Has the CD arrived yet?
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DR Tomovos, I'm listening to it as I type!
Good morning, all, especially my only early morning companion Tomovoz! DR George, thanks for the photos; I'm experiencing the feelings everyone on the West Coast feels when there's an East coast gathering of the acolytes. I wanna be there!
I, too, have been thinking about the stage directions debate from yesterday: on a first class production, the director probably has a share in the royalties; an orchestrator is usually work-for-hire, although other deals and persentage shares have been known to be made. The amateur stock rights through Dramatists Play Service, French, Dramatic Publishing Company, I believe, are handled through the producer's office, and the script is usually the stage manager's copy. sometimes, as in the case of SUMMER BRAVE where William Inge revised the script of PICNIC to remove all of Josh Logan's "interference," the playwright will take the opportunity in his own publication to remove the director's traces. Joe Mantello, if I'm correct, is getting a royalty from LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! in its amateur/stock edition, so he probably should have been flattered that he was being imitated. It was probably the viewing of the video at the NYPL Theatre Collection that was the final straw, and I believe something similar happened with the Promenade Theatre revival of PACIFIC OVERTURES in the 1980s because Harold Prince felt he had been too faithfully reproduced without consent.
London is where I want to own a flat.
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I'm not quite sure how Mantello can get a piece of that royalty unless he made an arrangement with the playwright to do so...which, in the stuff I read, the Guild expressely frowns upon. The playwright is not the employer of the director and therefore should be making no deals with him...particularly when it comes giving away his royalties. So unless the playwright agreed to give him a cut...which I can't see an experienced playwright doing, Mantello would have to try to assert his rights in court which, given the copyright office's standards which I go into above, would seem to make a pretty weak case for Mantello.
The other thing is just because his stage directions may be in the book doesn't mean every amateur/stock production is going to use them. It's seems to me "cross downstage left" can be done in enumberable ways. Good direction is...or at least ought to be...more than just blocking. And I can't think of any Sam French script that includes the discussions and character notes that the director conveyed to his actors.
I'm sure that's why direction can't be copyrighted; it's far to indefinable to set down in any arbitrary way. And far too immediate and specific to each actor to be duplicated by another actor. A different actor in the same part is going to be directed differently (At least I would hope! A different person brings different assets to the role and the director must play upon the individual actor's strengths and diminish his weakness. It's new with each new actor essaying the role) And even blocking notations will change with each venue and stage and different set design you have. It seems that direction, by its very nature, is too fluid and malleable to be a definitive, repeatable, stealable thing.
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I'm not quite sure how Mantello can get a piece of that royalty unless he made an arrangement with the playwright to do so...which, in the stuff I read, the Guild expressely frowns upon. The playwright is not the employer of the director and therefore should be making no deals with him...particularly when it comes giving away his royalties. So unless the playwright agreed to give him a cut...which I can't see an experienced playwright doing, Mantello would have to try to assert his rights in court which, given the copyright office's standards which I go into above, would seem to make a pretty weak case for Mantello.
DRCharlesPogue, the director's deal is not with the playwright, it's with the producer, and his royalty is a part of the production's income. With a musical, once it's sold to stock and amateur rights, all the investors and production team see a royalty check or return in investment on occasion.
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39 at 8:13. Good start for a Monday.
No question in my mind. It would be London, because...it's London. I feel at home there. The city speaks to me in the same way that New York speaks to me. If I wanted a less urban place then I think perhaps the Normandy area of France. It's beautiful, the people are wonderful (yes, the French can be quite lovely, as evidenced by our own dear Francois) and it's a relaxing, yet exhiliarating area.
If it was within the U.S., I think the only place outside of New York would be San Francisco (Los Angeles is just too sprawling for me, I like big but not that big). I'm glad I grew up in Minnesota in the suburbs but, as Larry and I were talking a couple of weeks ago, I don't think I could move back to the Midwest and live a contented life. I knew I would be out of Minnesota (especially after I visited New York on my class trip in 1970) and I have been away for 25 years. You can go back to visit, but for me, I really can't go "home" again, because it's not home. New York is home (or London or Dublin or San Francisco or Honfleur or Paris).
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Yes, I have eaten a Boca Burger and other variations. I like them. They are a good tasting alternative to meat burgers.
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I have never eaten a Boca Burger to my knowledge. I spent a several years in the seventies (during the "meat crisis: andyone else remember the "meat crisis"?) When my mother would buy soy "hamburger stretcher" which you would add to your hamburger.
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TOD: This is actually something I daydream about in my "when I hit the mega millions" however I have never come to a satisfactory answer. If I had all the money in the world I woulld want to live on several acres of wooded land in a moderate climate that nonetheless had all four seasons.
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The west coast HHW meet looked wonderful and I echo DR elmore's sentiments... I wish I could have been there!
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Although having money would be a necessity for any of the three locations, I wouldn't mind living in Paris, New York or San Francisco. I might have to do something else about the winters though. Amybe I could live all three places plus Phoenix... and LA and Melbourne and Chicago, and......
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RE: the Joe Mantello incident from yesterday's post. this may be the incident I was thinking about. I don't remember the outcome of his particular battle (i.e. can a director's blocking and ideas be copyrightable), but I'm pretty sure that directors cannot claim any share of the published script or do anything like that which would dilute authorship or writer's royalties. Wish I had all my Dramatist Guild magazines around so I could find out the outcome of this case. Can't choreographers copyright choreography for ballets and such. But also isn't there any actual choreographic notation where that stuff can be recorded like notes on a sheet of music? My memory is that directors' ideas were not copyrightable but I could be very wrong about that.
As I was reading this topic in yesterday's posts, a question popped into me head--isn't it a part of a play's licenseing agreement that the original production's director receive some kind of credit in the advertisement and playbills of subsequent productions, as in "Originally Directed for the New York Stage by..."? I'm sure I've seen this in numerous published scripts, as well.
I'll have to check the credits of the current Walnut Street Theatre production of Evita that's to open soon here in Philly. From what I've read and heard, it virtually recreates the original staging. I'll check to see if Hal Prince's name is mentioned anywhere.
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I have not caught up. The Vixter and her outh group wne to t see my friend Frank in his production of "Ten Little Indians" Fiday night so the Mr. and myself were on our lonesome... unfortunartly he had been sick all week witha terrible sore throat and cough so our "date night " turned into "Fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV night"
The Vixter came home from the play around 11 PM all smiles but with a complaint about a slight tummy ache
Unfortunately around 1 AM her tummy ache turned into a major tummy ache and she spent the rest of the night in the bathroom being very ill
Of course the Mr. & I were up as well so by Saturday morning no one was feeling at all well. The Mr. & the Vixter retired to their respectivee beds for naps but since my car had been making some terrible squealing noses when I applied the brakes I was comiterd to taking the car in to be serviced
They said rotors, calipers, brack pads and brake shoes.....and threw around numbers like $1000.00
Fortunately the pads & shoes and labor are guaranteed as long as you opwn the car so that knocked about $300 of the bill, then I have a extended warrantly plan that covers some parts so that knocked about another $350 off... they said the car would be ready around 1..., then 2... then 3.... then they said the master cylinder failed when they tried to bleed the brakes. My extended warranty co decided they wanted to send an inspector to check it out so my car still sits at the shop awaitng a ok to repair .
The I finally walked home and took a nap.
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On Sunday we skipped church since we were all still feeling a bit delicate.
The Mr. opened his Father Day's presents... two pairs of Panama Jack swim trunk/shorts and two matching Panama Jack shirts, Reno 911 the 2nd Series on DVD, a book on the history of flight and a counted cross-stitch sampler designed and sewn b y the Vixter (her very first counterd cross stictch project!) which said "I love Dad"
and thatwas our weekend!
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I shall now attempt to catch up.
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Ben, like you, London is home. I felt instantly at home there. By my second day, I was giving other tourists directions. But I was very lucky to have spent three months on my Sherlock Holmes films. It gave me a chance to just go there and live not be compelled to see the sights in some whirlwind fashion. It's one of the few places I get homesick for. Although I've been in LA now for over 25 years, I do think I could go back and live in the midwest. Though there are many things about living in a world hub I like, I've never really cottoned to the city itself. I'm here mostly for the work and the many friendships I have. I ever leave, it would be the people I miss...nothing really about the city I couldn't give up.
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Thank you, DR GEORGE, for wonderful photos from the gathering. I wished I’d have been there.
Hope dear readers who attend dear BK’s reading/signing and/or a dining gethering will have fun, fun, fun, today/tonight!
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TOD: If I could live any place in the world, free to travel to any other place whenever I wanted, as well as being free to fly in family and friends for frequent visits, it would be in San Francisco...in the Nob Hill or Russian Hill area.
Yes, San Francisco is my top choice, too. My sister lived in the city then in Fairfax in Marin County during the 80s, and I loved visiting her on my vacations. The people there take so much pride in themselves and their environment. I never saw anyone flick their cigerette butts into the street or spit their gum on the sidewalk. In fact, I recall seeing people finding a piece of stray trash on the sidewalk and going out of their way to pick it up and throw it into a trash can. And the very air is invigorating (my sister said it was the grove of eucalyptus trees by the zoo that gave the air that refreshing aroma.)
I'm forgetting--Nob Hill or Russian Hill--in which did Linda Ronstadt have a house? That's where I would ideally like to live.
In second place, would be NYC simply because it's NYC. But I would have to also have a place up along the Hudson to escape to occaisionally.
In third place--a ranch in Montanna. Big blue sky, wide open spaces. No one to bother me 'cept for that Turner fella who keeps coming over, drunk as a skunk, to tell me how much he misses his ex-wife.
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And Enjoy your Portland stay, dear BK. Hope some Claritin works a/o you’ll get some Actifed successfully this morning a/o you’ll get better by Boca Burger (I’ve never eaten) Power. :D ;) :P
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Hi Hisaka!! I was thinking of you last night while watching my favorite Japanese show "Sukara".
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Lovely picures from Saturday dearreaderlaura! I am so glad that you are all right.. a blowout at that speed could have been very very nasty!!
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I love the picture of our very own Bill Cody! BTW I never heard, is there a video being made of AGYG?
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I like Boca burger's very much, as long as I know what I'm eating is a Boca burger. Someone once tried to pass one on to me as a regular burger and I thought it tasted terrible. Once I learned it was a veggie, I adjusted my attitude and found it quite tasty.
I like my Bocas with lots of mustard slathered on them.
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Last night I had the veggie burger, but the previous gathering at JMK's house I had the boca and liked it very much.
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A page 3 twist
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well time to quiz the Vixter for her Science final at noon
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If money were no object, I'd live in New York during the spring and fall, especially when there were new shows to sample. Summer and winter aren't especially comfortable there, so in the winter, I'd head to Hawaii, and in summer, well, I'm so used to the hot humid summers here that I'd probably stay here during the summer time. I have too many friends I wouldn't want to lose touch with completely.
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Oy, the Actifed. Oy, the internet. Oy, the humanity!! ;)
So's, anyhoo:
Note to George: your camera is way wacky. I have NO gray hair.
Note to Jose (pun maybe intended): artist is Marcus Uzilevsky, who evidently spent years dropping acid and staring at orchestral scores, and then went a little crazy with airbrushes before crashing. :)
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To whomever was "discovering" Jobim's Waters of March a few weeks ago: there's a delicious remixed version out on the new Bossacucanova CD. Bossacucanova is a trio (headed by the son of Bossa Nova legend Robert Menescal) that does great dance-ready remixes of bossa nova classics.
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Quote of the day yesterday: As we were experiencing the Actifed crisis and BK was (gently--kind of ;)) berating a clerk at a store for not having the Actifed out, his phone rang. "Who could that be?" queried BK. "It's probably God calling you to tell you to be nice to me," replied the clerk.
Well, I thought it was hilarious.
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As for TOD:
It would have to NYC for the culture available.
Or LA for the weather,
But since I like Florida, I would like to live about 20 miles south of me in Fort Lauderdale.
New York is always the top of my favorite and longing city list, for the same reason of DR MICHAEL SHAYNE.
Los Angeles, I’m eager to move to the city, especially in this soggy rainy season (in Japan).
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Oooh--Bossacucanova is doing a wicked tripped out version of Jobim's "Bonita". Cooler than cool.
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Speaking of coming into megamillions, does anyone here play the lottery?
We don't have the lottery in North Carolina (though it looks like the legislature may finally vote to allow it), but South Carolina has it, and we live close enough to the border for lots of people to go there and buy tickets. I don't go to the trouble of driving there to get tickets, but if it were just a matter of popping down to the convenience store a block from my house, I probably would play each week.
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TOD from Yesterday;
I’d like to add “The Birthday” of Chagall on my last-time-favorite- painting list It makes me happy whenever I see it.
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Some thoughts about LOST IN THE STARS which I saw for the very first time yesterday.
I've never been wild about the score (there are a couple of pretty songs) and never having seen the show on the stage, I don't know how faithful the film version was to the stage original. Can anyone advise me?
Brock Peters has a powerful voice, but it didn't seem to quite fit the music well. Melba Moore seemed shrill in her one number. Clifton Davis was OK in his singing. Most of it was not wonderfully staged. I think more could have been done with the material.
I read CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY as a freshman in college, but it's been so long ago that I don't remember if there was more to the story than the film presented. It did seem to end abruptly.
All in all, an OK film, but I'm glad I recorded it off cable and didn't invest in the DVD.
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Hi Hisaka!! I was thinking of you last night while watching my favorite Japanese show "Sukara".
Hello, DR VIXMOM!
Sorry, but I have no idea what kind of the show "Sukara" is.
Tell me some about it. I'm curious.
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I've had boca burgers before; they were OK, but I really am a carnivore, so if I'm going to eat a burger, I'd rather it have meat. I've had meatless lasagna before, too. (Made with zuchinni). Give me the regular any time!
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Thanks for the pictures of last night's gathering. Nice to see the people enjoying themselves, and I appreciate that these were shared with the rest of us.
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At some point today, I'll watch either PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (on the DVR) or HEIST (on DVD), probably the former since it's been so long since I've seen it.
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Great photos. JMK, your house looks awesome. And that drugstore conversation was hilarious indeed.
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PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, besides being a really good movie, is also a really good title for a movie, in my opinion.
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Phil Ford, comedian and former husband of Mimi Hines has passed away.
Here is a Playbill link
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/93634.html
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Also, the next movie to stage musical transfer in progress seems to be The First Wives Club. Also at Playbill On-Line.
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I watched a documentary recently called HOME MOVIE about five different odd places that people live in, and I was inspired by this guy who lives on a houseboat in the bayou. That would be cool. I also like Northern California along the Mendocino coast.
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Back at work -- UGH!
Sinuses are working overtime -- UGH! UGH!
Two weeks before I get a four-day weekend - UGH! UGH! UGH!
Yep, it's a 3-UGH day, thus far!
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Some thoughts about LOST IN THE STARS which I saw for the very first time yesterday.
I've never been wild about the score (there are a couple of pretty songs) and never having seen the show on the stage, I don't know how faithful the film version was to the stage original. Can anyone advise me?
I read CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY as a freshman in college, but it's been so long ago that I don't remember if there was more to the story than the film presented. It did seem to end abruptly.
Since I'm crazy about Kurt Weill, I find it a beautiful score, amazingly scored for a chamber ensemble that the film kept, but I hate what it did to the score.
My whole memory now is Melba Moore bellowing out "Trouble Man" as she shakes the clothesline, and because she either couldn't sing it well or the director's vision which changed the pacific end of the piece couldn't see its use, her beautiful song "Stay Well" was cut. The ending, in which the father of the murder victim and the father of the murderer pledge friendship, was cut.
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I would love to live in Los Angeles, if I were rich and had someone to drive me around...closer to home I wouldn't mind living in some of Portland's ritzy neighborhoods...the ones I can't even afford to drive through, let alone live in. LOL!
For a summer home it might be nice to have something along the New England coast...in one of those charming towns you see in the movies.
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JMK: LOVED the Actifed story!
Gave me a long chuckle, it did.
And, BK -- I TOTALLY understand!
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BK, sorry about your alergies...I guess that is one of the downfalls of being in such a green state...everything is blooming!
Putting the psuedophedrine behind the counter is a new thing in Oregon...but if the store has it behind the pharmacycounter then they need to have some way for the store manager or other store personnel to retrieve it for the customer during hours that they pharmacy is closed.
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And who knew that BK had a personal phone line to God! LOL!
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I'm really sorry for folks who suffer with allergies and sinus infections. I was truly blessed not to have such respiratory problems, but so many of my friends have them that I tend to suffer with them through the spring, summer, and fall.
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Thanks for your opinions on LOST IN THE STARS, DR Elmore. I need to get out the cast recording and listen to it again. Since it was done by Decca so long ago, I suspect the score isn't complete there either, but I haven't listened to it in decades. In fact, I only have it on an MCA audio cassette. Anyway, that's something I'll put on my to-listen list for this week.
I have a 45 minute drive to my brother's house tomorrow and could play it on the way there. I had ear-marked that drive to finish up with THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, but now I'll have another decision to make.
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PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, besides being a really good movie, is also a really good title for a movie, in my opinion.
Yes, indeed. I have pretty much decided this will be today's subject of viewing when I get in from lunch with a friend and get other chores out of the way.
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Lovely pics DRGEORGE. You and MBARNUM don't look like wallflowers to me!
Nice house, DRJMK. But where are all the HUGE Frances Farmer pictures? You don't put them away when company comes, do you?
DR HISAKA, what a lovely Chagall painting. I had never seen it before.
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yes Labanotation is used for Choreography. ;D
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~griesbec/LABANE.HTML (http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~griesbec/LABANE.HTML)
And not that ANY of my choreography will EVER need to be copyrighted, for my own notes for future productions, I used the Benesh system....it's a great computer program that I had on my old computer, and hopefully I can find the disk and put on this one for PIPPIN! 8)
http://www.benesh.org/computerisation.html (http://www.benesh.org/computerisation.html)
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And one for Ory-gun!
Geography is not my strongest suit. ;D
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PHILISTINE--that was Andrea Martin's role in the Hedwig and the Angry Inch movie.
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Ireland it is for me, then.
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I thought the Philistines were all at the Temple of Dagon to see Samson today.
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I thought the Philistines were all at the Temple of Dagon to see Samson today.
Is his band back together? I love their version of "Delilah."
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I'd love to live in New York and London for the theater/theatre and no other reason. ;)
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As long as there are no roaches where I live. :P
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Quote of the day yesterday: As we were experiencing the Actifed crisis and BK was (gently--kind of ;)) berating a clerk at a store for not having the Actifed out, his phone rang. "Who could that be?" queried BK. "It's probably God calling you to tell you to be nice to me," replied the clerk.
Well, I thought it was hilarious.
LOL!! ;D
(actually, I'm ROTFLMAO!!)
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Hi, All - It's taken me a while to get here today, because first I had to see R&r off for their first day of summer school at UC, then here at work had to teach a 3-hour grantseeking basics workshop. Is it naptime yet?
Loved the Portland pictures! DR's George and MBarnum look nothing like the wallflowers they both claimed to be. Add me to the list of those who'd like to be there.
TOD - I'll take Manhattan...
Actually, DH Richard and I have seriously discussed trying to spend some extended periods of time in NYC once we both retire. Someday, I might call upon elmore, Ben, Rodzinski, Jose and anybody else who might know of sublets, housesitting, etc. Probably not for 3-5 years, though.
My second choice would be a major university community like Ann Arbor (of course). Or the houseboat Tom Hanks' character lived in in Sleepless in Seattle.
Most days, sitting behind the wheel, I'd just like to live closer to my workplace. And I don't want another house, with a lawn and gutters and all that - give me a condo (preferably high-rise) any day.
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Good Afternoon!
What a lovely number of posts to wake up to!
-Of course, since I didn't get out of bed until about an hour ago...
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DR JMK - Thanks for the artist info. I thought they were musically inclined, so to speak. And most likely substance inclined too.
;)
They actually reminded me of Liszt's manuscript for his Piano Sonata in B-Minor. Henle publises a wonderful reprint/reproduction of it. Lots of different colors in it to delineate the themes,leitmotifs, and "structure".
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DR JRand - If I had gotten up earlier...;)
Yes, Labanotation - or the Americanized "Laban Notaion" - is used to notate choreography. It's quite a neat little system. I even tried learning it at one point when I was in college.
...Then I decided I'd rather play dance rehearsals rather than notate them
;)
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DR Dan (the Man) - Now that I think of it, every production of Evita I've seen has more or less uses/borrowed/aped/stolen Hal Prince's staging and Larry Fuller's choreography.
And the whole "Originally directed by Hal Prince" line is required per the licensing agreement with R&H (formerly Tams-Witmark).
But I don't think I've seen the same byline for Larry Fuller. However, Larry Fuller seems to "supervise" each major production and tour that goes out - including the one currently on the road.
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Hmmm....
And even most of the major productions of Sweeney Todd have "paid homage" to Mssrs. Prince and Fuller.
Hmmm...
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Speaking of coming into megamillions, does anyone here play the lottery?
We don't have the lottery in North Carolina (though it looks like the legislature may finally vote to allow it), but South Carolina has it, and we live close enough to the border for lots of people to go there and buy tickets. I don't go to the trouble of driving there to get tickets, but if it were just a matter of popping down to the convenience store a block from my house, I probably would play each week.
I don't go out of my way to play the lottery but if I happen to be in a store that sells them 9a 7 -Elven, stationary store etc, and I have a loose dollar in my change I will usually pick one up. ,My biggest win so far was $100 on a scratchoff game, and that was years ago!
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Speaking of Sweeney Todd, it looks like I may be going to see the current production that the Wolf Trap Opera Company is in the midst of. I'm just waiting to get confirmation of my Mamma Mia! schedule for this week.
The production sold out in a few hours after the tickets went on sale. It's being produced in the smaller Barns rather than the Filene Center. It seems that a couple of pairs and singles have been popping up. We shall see...
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Hello, DR VIXMOM!
Sorry, but I have no idea what kind of the show "Sukara" is.
Tell me some about it. I'm curious.
Its about a young woman of Japanese ancestory who was raised in Hawaii, whio is now attending living with a family in Japan (I believe they are related in some way, cousins, or aunt & uncle) while studying Japanese culture. It is the story of her adventures there.
I watch it in Japanese with English subtitle although occassionally she will run into another American and then start speaking English and suddenly Japenese subtitles pop up
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As for the lottery...
I go through phases where I'll play a couple of the games for a couple of weeks - Pick 3, Pick 4, MegaMillions usually - and then not play at all for a couple of months.
I'm in a phase right now inspired by my Mom's recent "bout" of good luck. She plays her birthday, and not only did it come up on her birthday, well, actually the day after her birthday, but it also came up the week before, and again this past Friday! At least $1000 and counting!
The most I've won was $47 for matching three or four numbers out of six a couple of years ago. And a couple of $1 and $5 prizes from the scratchers.
When my Dad retired from the Coast Guard, one of his going away presents was a bundle of scratch games, 50 tickets in all. There were TWO $5,000 winners in the bunch! Happy Retirement indeed!
*Of course, since me and my three brothers had either just finished college or were still in college.... Can you guess where part of that $10,000 went?
;)
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Is his band back together? I love their version of "Delilah."
;D
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I'm here, I'm here. Only briefly, as we're heading out. Lovely postings, I must say. I'll check back from JMK's house this afternoon.
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OH!
It turns out my parents, headed up to Atlantic City for the weekend.
And, yes, my Mom did rather well at the poker tables. She actually doesn't play, but she was betting on the players at the Carribean Poker table - whatever that is. Apparently, you bet on who's going to win, and then there's some sort of jackpot listing, and your person wins...
She didn't win a lot, but she came out in the black.
I didn't hear how my father fared.
;)
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Quote of the day yesterday: As we were experiencing the Actifed crisis and BK was (gently--kind of ;)) berating a clerk at a store for not having the Actifed out, his phone rang. "Who could that be?" queried BK. "It's probably God calling you to tell you to be nice to me," replied the clerk.
Well, I thought it was hilarious.
;D
poor bk but
;D
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And the phone indicator probably read: NO INFORMATION
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Can any DR email me an MP3 of the Green Acres theme? I can only find WAV. files and my CD has disappeared.
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Is his band back together? I love their version of "Delilah."
LOL DR ELMORE - I hear they brought the house down! :P
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I don't have the "Green Acres" theme at all. Sorry.
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As for Mr. Mantello...
I think a major part of the issue was/is whether or not a "local" audience would be able to tell if a director's staging and choices were solely his own or if they were borrowed from someone else's staging. -And, consequently, whether the critical praise - or brickbats - would be bestowed upon the "local" director for his innovation - or lack thereof.
Yes, actors will always "make" a different show - even in "original" productions when there's a cast change - or even when an understudy or stand-by goes in. But when a director just ends up copying someone else's direction... Is it really directing? Or does it become staging at that point? Recreating?
In the opera world, there is a lot of "Original Production by... This production restaged by...." going on. They acknowledge the original director, and also acknowledge the current "director" - the staging director. Heck, even stage managers even end up recreating the original director's staging regularly.
Yes, "direction" is essentially ephemera. The printed word is not. But how would you feel sitting in a theatre watching a show, and realizing, "Hey, I could have done this!.... WAIT!! I did do this!"
*And... I really should try to look up the exact details of the Mantello case... I believe the staging of L!V!C! even had some of the same scene changes duplicated - including the lighting cues.
**On a very personal note - There's a sort of prominent director that I've worked with a few times over the past couple of years. His work has gotten praised for his "innovation", "resourcefulness", "craftiness", and "originality". However, there has been more than one instance where his "originality" has been praised to high heaven, and I find myself saying to myself - or even screaming to myself - "Didn't you see the production in London last season? Didn't you see the production off-Broadway two years ago? They did the same thing!?!?!?"
And others I know have been saying the same thing. It reminds me of NBC's catch-phrase for their summer reruns, "It's New To You!"
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Praise is good. But I also believe it should be it should also be due to whom it is really due.
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One of my co-workers, a 20 something gal named Amy, asked where I was going this evening (as my name on the board mentions that I am leaving early) and I told her I was going to a book reading by a former actor named Bruce Kimmel....she got this wild eyed look on her face and screamed..."I know him! I have one of his movies!!!"
Turns out Amy is a huge fan of NAKED SPACE! LOL! She has the VHS AND the DVD and has made all of her friends and her husband watch it over the years!
And her favorite character in the movie is...Rodzinski!
She also remembers at least one of BK's appearances in LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY which is her favorite TV show.
Unfortunately, she has plans for this evening and cannot go to the signing tonight, but she would have loved to meet you BK!
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DR vixmom - Good Car Vibes!
-And I hope it wasn't too far a walk home from the service station.
Is everyone feeling better?
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One of my co-workers, a 20 something gal named Amy, asked where I was going this evening (as my name on the board mentions that I am leaving early) and I told her I was going to a book reading by a former actor named Bruce Kimmel....she got this wild eyed look on her face and screamed..."I know him! I have one of his movies!!!"
Turns out Amy is a huge fan of NAKED SPACE! LOL! She has the VHS AND the DVD and has made all of her friends and her husband watch it over the years!
And her favorite character in the movie is...Rodzinski!
She also remembers at least one of BK's appearances in LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY which is her favorite TV show.
Unfortunately, she has plans for this evening and cannot go to the signing tonight, but she would have loved to meet you BK!
Did you tell her you are a close and personal friend and you were just having dinner together last evening :D
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LOL! Yep!
I will bring the photos in as proof! ;D
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DR vixmom - Good Car Vibes!
-And I hope it wasn't too far a walk home from the service station.
Is everyone feeling better?
Thank you for the vibes. Everyone is feeling much better today except that the Mr. cannot shake his cough.
Fortunatley the car shop is only about 1/2 mile fromhome, but it seems farther when its hot and you havn't slept all night!! ;)
The bad news is the Geico inspector can't get there until Tuesday so we're a one car family until at least Wednesday, which, with our schedules can be problematic......but we'll manage.. still better than havingto rent a car at $45 a day
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LOL! Yep!
I will bring the photos in as proof! ;D
bask in the reflected glory, bask, I say!! ;D
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Vibes to the Vix family for auto and health.
I would like to live somewhere where it's not too hot and doesn't snow. And has a lake.
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And to bring it back to my original question...
What I was wondering about in Noises Off is whether the wonderful bit with the axe came out of Michael Frayn's mind, or if that was of the original director's devising. -Since the whole physical bit is detailed in the stage directions.
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Quote of the day yesterday: As we were experiencing the Actifed crisis and BK was (gently--kind of ;)) berating a clerk at a store for not having the Actifed out, his phone rang. "Who could that be?" queried BK. "It's probably God calling you to tell you to be nice to me," replied the clerk.
Well, I thought it was hilarious.
Oh... So maybe that explains it! BK was out of Actifed during the rehearsals for What If? last summer!
;D
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I found GREEN ACRES. The first one I found and recorded played back in just 8 seconds! Talk about chipmonks, but I found another, so life can go on!
My butchers knives and sickles didn't arrive in the mail today, but that's life, so they say.
Most published playscripts we get have blocking and set designs for a proscenium stage, so we have to re-do it for a thrust stage anyway. I always read them, because they have good suggestions.
I know original costume designs and choreography are not allowed in many productions according to notes we get with the materials, but I know major CHANGES are not allowed either - so sometimes it's hard to find a middle ground.
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TOO bad she can't send her DVD for an autograph, MBarnum!
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Ask her for money for a Benjamin Kritzer book - they are for sale, you know!
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RE: Lost in the Stars - Wasn't there a studio cast (?) recording released a few years ago on the MusicMasters label? Conducted by Julius Rudel. I actually think I have it, but may not have listened to it.
???
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DR VIXMOM - losing a car for a few days is brutal! I know!
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My butchers knives and sickles didn't arrive in the mail today, but that's life, so they say.
Do I need to alert the authorities?
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I have a question , actually it is the Vixter's question, and she asked if any of you "theatre experts" know when Little Women will be released for use by community theatre groups.
This made me wonder the ways these produvctions are released... I know trhat there are touring groups and local theatres all over the country doing shows a that are currently on Broadway (Mamma Mia for instance) but we can't do those same shows here on Long Island because of our proximity to Broadway.
Are there any hard and fast rules as to when a show becomes available for local groups to perform?
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Do I need to alert the authorities?
Nothing to see here....keep moving. Nothing to see here. :o
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Off to rehearsal. Back MUCH later.
GOOD READING VIBES to BK and the Portland crowd! Hope Jessica Skerritt shows up!
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OMG!!!!
Guess what number came up again this afternoon during the Daytime Draw for the Virginia Lottery's Pick Three game?
6-0-3
And since my mom's birthday is June 3....
WOW!!!
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OMG!!!!
Guess what number came up again this afternoon during the Daytime Draw for the Virginia Lottery's Pick Three game?
6-0-3
And since my mom's birthday is June 3....
WOW!!!
Well anyone could see that your mom is a lucky woman... after all she does have you as a son.... :D
BTW, can she buy my lottery tickets for me from here on in?
;D
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I have a question , actually it is the Vixter's question, and she asked if any of you "theatre experts" know when Little Women will be released for use by community theatre groups.
This made me wonder the ways these produvctions are released... I know trhat there are touring groups and local theatres all over the country doing shows a that are currently on Broadway (Mamma Mia for instance) but we can't do those same shows here on Long Island because of our proximity to Broadway.
Are there any hard and fast rules as to when a show becomes available for local groups to perform?
The basic rule/order is:
Original/Broadway Production
Tour of Original/Broadway Production
Large Regional Theatres and Companies
Smaller Regional Theatre and Companies
Dinner Theatres
Community Theatres and Schools
There are always exceptions to the rule. And the whole timetable is never the same from one property to the next. Some shows take years(!) to get down to the smaller companies, sometimes it only take months.
It's all a matter of planning, and making sure the "public" doesn't get over-saturated with productions of the same show so that the audience is still interested seeing it - again. In other words, it's all about economics, money.
Showbiz is just Show Biz.
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Oh... And sometimes the "restrictions" can be very arbitrary, truly arbitrary.
In fact, arbitrary restrictions ended up being the genesis for What If?
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The basic rule/order is:
Original/Broadway Production
Tour of Original/Broadway Production
Large Regional Theatres and Companies
Smaller Regional Theatre and Companies
Dinner Theatres
Community Theatres and Schools
Thank you! I shall pass that info on to the Vixter
There are always exceptions to the rule. And the whole timetable is never the same from one property to the next. Some shows take years(!) to get down to the smaller companies, sometimes it only take months.
It's all a matter of planning, and making sure the "public" doesn't get over-saturated with productions of the same show so that the audience is still interested seeing it - again. In other words, it's all about economics, money.
Showbiz is just Show Biz.
Thank you, I will pas s that info along as well.
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Oh... And sometimes the "restrictions" can be very arbitrary, truly arbitrary.
In fact, arbitrary restrictions ended up being the genesis for What If?
Can you explain?
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And to bring it back to my original question...
What I was wondering about in Noises Off is whether the wonderful bit with the axe came out of Michael Frayn's mind, or if that was of the original director's devising. -Since the whole physical bit is detailed in the stage directions.
DRJose, are the stage directions in an "acting edition" like Samuel French or in the Methuen/Grove/whatever published copy of the play? That would answer your question.
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RE: Lost in the Stars - Wasn't there a studio cast (?) recording released a few years ago on the MusicMasters label? Conducted by Julius Rudel. I actually think I have it, but may not have listened to it.
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Yes, there was. The complete score, and I think there's also a cut song as well.
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Showbiz is just Show Biz.
Or, as my favorite line from The Producers says:
"The thing you gotta know is:
Everything is show biz!"
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Got about an hour of PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET watched - through Thelma Ritter's demise. She CERTAINLY deserved the Oscar that year (won by Gloria Grahame in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL). I think she's so affecting in this part. Yes, it WAS the year Jean Hagen was nominated for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and that's a wonderful (over-the-top) performance, too, but give me Thelma any day.
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DR Dan (the Man) - Now that I think of it, every production of Evita I've seen has more or less uses/borrowed/aped/stolen Hal Prince's staging and Larry Fuller's choreography.
And the whole "Originally directed by Hal Prince" line is required per the licensing agreement with R&H (formerly Tams-Witmark).
But I don't think I've seen the same byline for Larry Fuller. However, Larry Fuller seems to "supervise" each major production and tour that goes out - including the one currently on the road.
Actually, that's the productions that is soon to open in Philly (I don't know why I thought it was the Walnut Street Theatre.) And it's press does say that the recreation of the original staging is by Prince and Fuller.
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Can you explain?
Hmmm...
I think BK could do it better- well he did it already... Actually, if you back to the Archives from about a year ago - just the Notes (but the Notes had some tidbits too) - you should be able to get the play by play by play by play...
;)
In short... BK and Tammy had wanted to produce one show, but then found out that the rights were not available. At least in LA. Then they found a second one. This time the author did not want his play being produced in LA. Then a third one... For which they got the rights for, but then they were pulled. So...
But since the theatre was booked, and the deposit laid down...
*I'll have to watch the opening moments of What If? to recall the proper order of things. And the names of the plays and authors.
Then as "luck" would have it, companies were changing seasons, dropping shows... in other words, I was losing jobs left and right...
Then I saw some posts here in HHW telling me to call BK...
I got the call on the 10th, flew out on the 11th of July - or was that the 11th and 12th? -In any case... I got the call one day, flew out the next, and we had our first audition that night in BK's living room (in his old house).
...And we closed the last week of September.
:)
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DRJose, are the stage directions in an "acting edition" like Samuel French or in the Methuen/Grove/whatever published copy of the play? That would answer your question.
Actually, I believe it's in both. I know the paperback/acting edition has the 'columns', and the hardcover edition does too.
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And I think it's a Faber edition.
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I'll tell you a major exception to that rule about musicals being made available; I was astonished when a local teater group here got the right for a local production of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. I had NO idea it was available for local production. This is a semi-professional group who's doing this version with Mark Dalio, who's played Gaston all over Europe, starring as the Beast.
However, a strictly amateur community theater is doing the show this fall as its season opener, so I guess it is now available even though it's still on Broadway in its original production and I thought was still touring nationally though that tour may have wound up now.
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Yes, there was. The complete score, and I think there's also a cut song as well.
Whew! For a second there, I thought I had had one too many of Alice B. Toklas' brownies.
:P
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DR Jose - I cooked a lot yesterday (Father's Day, you know) and proudly wore my Mamma Mia apron. My mom loved it.
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Found out from my friend today during lunch that he doesn't leave for London until NEXT Tuesday. He's going to miss the national tour of HAIRSPRAY which is making its first visit to Charlotte, so he's giving me his tickets.
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Was that LOST IN THE STARS done at Encores?
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I'll tell you a major exception to that rule about musicals being made available; I was astonished when a local teater group here got the right for a local production of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. I had NO idea it was available for local production. This is a semi-professional group who's doing this version with Mark Dalio, who's played Gaston all over Europe, starring as the Beast.
However, a strictly amateur community theater is doing the show this fall as its season opener, so I guess it is now available even though it's still on Broadway in its original production and I thought was still touring nationally though that tour may have wound up now.
Ah, yes.... I'm sure former DR Jason could fill you in on the whole Beauty & The Beast "structure".
Once the rights were released, they ended up being rolled out quite fast. In fact, a local church group in Richmond ended up with the rights last December! Yes, the Broadway production is still running, but the tour did close up shop two summers ago. *I subbed in during the closing months.
And there are least three community theatre productions currently in production or planning right now in the DC area.
$$$ Ka-Ching! $$$
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DR Jose - I cooked a lot yesterday (Father's Day, you know) and proudly wore my Mamma Mia apron. My mom loved it.
:)
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Actually, I believe it's in both. I know the paperback/acting edition has the 'columns', and the hardcover edition does too.
Well, I went to the Samuel French site and they have the "acting edition" based on the broadway production. amazon.com has an Anchor trade paper edition of the play and it also exists in a Frayn collection published by Methuen. Is that any help?
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Was that LOST IN THE STARS done at Encores?
I don't believe Encores! has done LOST IN THE STARS; my only memory of a Kurt Weill show is LADY IN THE DARK.
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He's going to miss the national tour of HAIRSPRAY which is making its first visit to Charlotte, so he's giving me his tickets.
Wonder if it's the same tour that we'll see here in Dayton, OH, in February, 2006?
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But there have been other shows that have been released in a somewhat "fast" fashion. It all depends just what kind of agreement - control - the original authors work out with the licensing house and/or their agents.
And with the all the Disney's properties/shows that MTI has picked up - and have been adapting for their Jr. Line... I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of Beauty's all over the place... There's even an Aida Jr. in the works!?!?!?
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Well, I went to the Samuel French site and they have the "acting edition" based on the broadway production. amazon.com has an Anchor trade paper edition of the play and it also exists in a Frayn collection published by Methuen. Is that any help?
Well, not really...
But if you want to help me dig through my storage unit in Richmond, I can dig out my copies.
:)
I know I have the Sam French acting edition, and my hardcover was from the Fireside Book Club - now the sadly defunct Stage & Screen Book Club. There was also another edition of the play released at the time of the recent Broadway revival.
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Wonder if it's the same tour that we'll see here in Dayton, OH, in February, 2006?
Yep, only one Hairspray company on tour right now. Of course, by the time it reaches Dayton, there may be some personnel changes.
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You may THINK this is JMK posting, but in reality it is BK posting from JMK's computer. Rather than log him off and me on I just decided to use his moniker.
We did a bit of sightseeing. Went to Powell's bookstore - very confusing jernt, but lots of books. I bought two first edition plays - Man of La Mancha (which is quite rare), and the first Brit edition of Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests. Reasonable prices, too.
We stopped and I got some Actifed, although I'm perfectly fine right now, so maybe the Claritin will keep on going for its full twenty-four hours. However, buying the Actifed you would have thought I was a drug addickt. Had to show ID, they write down all your info - WEIRD
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And after it's stop in Charlotte, Hairspray then heads up here to the Kennedy Center for a few weeks.
The drummer and one of the keyboard players were in the Aida pit. I ran into them when they were in L.A. last summer, and I'm hoping to catch them while they're in town in a few weeks. But since I'll be in NYC... We shall see...
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I'm trying not to eat until dinner. I definitely have lost three or four pounds over the last week - I can feel it.
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We stopped and I got some Actifed, although I'm perfectly fine right now, so maybe the Claritin will keep on going for its full twenty-four hours. However, buying the Actifed you would have thought I was a drug addickt. Had to show ID, they write down all your info - WEIRD
Well, after reading about the current "craze" for crystal meth - and it's very accessibility and "make"-ability...
Yes, you may have been inconvenienced, but if by signing some forms keep someone else from manufacturing and using crystal meth, well, I think the good has been done.
-Unfortunately, I have an acquaintance going through an "ordeal" right now. And, as I - and other people in his circle - are learning - and reminded of - he's the only one that can truly help himself.
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That post was from BK, in case you were confused. It's too weird posting with JMK's account. I keep trying to figure out where my beard and wife is. NOT RIGHT>
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Like NOISES OFF, I think THE NORMAN CONQUESTS is one of the cleverest plays ever written. Of course in the case of TNC, it's three plays that are happening concurrently. So brilliant, and SO funny.
Is the TV version of the three plays available on video. They're the only versions I've ever seen, but I was mesmerized by the entire concept and found it brilliantly done.
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BK again.
MBarnum - if she's such a fan she ought to break her plans and come.
I do hope Ann is telling everyone she's just a bit under the weather.
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BK here. You're all looking at my this, aren't you?
JMK would never say that, at least not with his wife in the avatar.
And now - Dino at the piano.
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Ann is indeed feeling "under the weather" I'm feeling a bit of a twinge of guilt, having called in sick when I really could have worked...but ah well, too late now. And I've had a killer headache all day, so it wasn't a total lie. Right?? :)
Two hours from now, Jed, TCB, and I should be on our way down to the Land of Port. Before we go, I must finish preparing my car for the trip, hit the supermarket, and finish the dishes.
See all the NW people soon!
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I'm trying not to eat until dinner. I definitely have lost three or four pounds over the last week - I can feel it.
Its the boca burger... keep eating boca burgers ands the pounds will melt away!!!
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There's even an Aida Jr. in the works!?!?!?
:o either I have the story line wrong or there is going to have to be same rewrites
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Ann is indeed feeling "under the weather" I'm feeling a bit of a twinge of guilt, having called in sick when I really could have worked...but ah well, too late now. And I've had a killer headache all day, so it wasn't a total lie. Right?? :)
Two hours from now, Jed, TCB, and I should be on our way down to the Land of Port. Before we go, I must finish preparing my car for the trip, hit the supermarket, and finish the dishes.
See all the NW people soon!
have a wonderful trip, but be careful around bk, word on the street is he's a meth addict ;D
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Got about an hour of PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET watched - through Thelma Ritter's demise. She CERTAINLY deserved the Oscar that year (won by Gloria Grahame in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL). I think she's so affecting in this part. Yes, it WAS the year Jean Hagen was nominated for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and that's a wonderful (over-the-top) performance, too, but give me Thelma any day.
I think Thelma deserved MANY Oscars....and I believe she still holds the record for most Supporting Actress nominations without a win.
In 1952, she was nominated for "With A Song In My Heart" and that's one of my favorite performances by her.
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Well anyone could see that your mom is a lucky woman... after all she does have you as a son.... :D
BTW, can she buy my lottery tickets for me from here on in?
;D
Well, that was post 138 for today.
DR vixmom's Member Number - according the "sidebar" is 247.
Today's topic number is 607 according to the Home Page.
Guess what numbers I'll be playing tonight.
:)
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And that was my 6783rd post!
And this is my 6784th one!
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have a wonderful trip, but be careful around bk, word on the street is he's a meth addict ;D
But can he loan me a dollar to but a lottery ticket?
;)
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I would suspect that most of the non-verbal business in NOISES OFF is Michael Frayn since it is the conceit of the second act and so much of it is the non-verbal action of those behind stage while the dialogue of the play is going on out front.
If your copy is Faber, it's British probably...which would almost guarantee any stage directions in the script are Frayn's as the British editions of new plays seem to coincide with the play's opening and are usually published and in stores before the play officially opens. Many's the time I've bought a play of a new production and read it before I saw the play. I'm pretty sure I've an original copy of Noises Off that I bought in London at the time, but I can't seem to locate it.
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You may THINK this is JMK posting, but in reality it is BK posting from JMK's computer.
Very Odd. A JMK post without a bossa nova rhythm.
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Ann is indeed feeling "under the weather" I'm feeling a bit of a twinge of guilt, having called in sick when I really could have worked...but ah well, too late now. And I've had a killer headache all day, so it wasn't a total lie. Right?? :)
Two hours from now, Jed, TCB, and I should be on our way down to the Land of Port. Before we go, I must finish preparing my car for the trip, hit the supermarket, and finish the dishes.
See all the NW people soon!
See you there!! ;D
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So much excitement.
Nothing like BK has hit the Pacific Nothwest since Mount St. Helens blew her stack.
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I have a few things to do before I take off for Portland (or south of) soon. Since I'll more than likely be getting back later tonight than I did last night, I'll have to go directly to the house where I'm house-sitting and not log on tonight. Tomorrow is when I'm done sitting the house, so I'll be able to post pictures tomorrow night (a "Yentl" reference!).
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I agree BK, Amy should have broken her plans and attended tonight...I could tell she wanted to! Unfortunately, her husband is not a Bruce Kimmel fan I guess, and he wanted to keep their pre-arranged plans intact.
He did bring over Amy's copy of Naked Space which I will bring to the reading tonight for you to autograph, if you would be so kind...must keep the fans happy, you know! (PS: she is very cute).
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I am going to head up I-5 now to avoid most of the rush hour traffic...will bide my time at some nearby shopping places.
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See you soon, Mike!! And Ann and Jed and TCB!! ;D And Jeff and BK!!
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I agree BK, Amy should have broken her plans and attended tonight...I could tell she wanted to! Unfortunately, her husband is not a Bruce Kimmel fan I guess, and he wanted to keep their pre-arranged plans intact.
He did bring over Amy's copy of Naked Space which I will bring to the reading tonight for you to autograph, if you would be so kind...must keep the fans happy, you know! (PS: she is very cute).
Perhaps they promised they'd visit someone or attend a function.
Keeping/honoring one's word should take precedence over everything except death of a family member or a medical emergency (the real kind, not the "Ann" kind).
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Sounds like a good time will be had by all this evening. At least on the Left Coast. I am about to move on to the exercise bike. Jeopardy and a half hour of bicycling await me.
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OK... Time for me to head out for a bit...
In the meantime, just keep thinking "607", "138" and "247"
;D
Laters...
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Yes, those of us NOT going to the Land of Port and the reading/book signing have only our HUM DRUM lives to look foward to this evening. :P
Somehow we shall manage to plod our way through it all. ;D
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The west coast HHW meet looked wonderful and I echo DR elmore's sentiments... I wish I could have been there!
How do you think I feel not getting there! :(
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Ginny, Craig is moving to Bucharest for a year before returning home and grad school. That is the plan for now.
This vegetarian needs to be very hungry before eating a Boca Burger. I’m impressed Bruce ate it. I prefer Garden Burgers and soy hot dogs called Leanies. I also like the soy bacon.
George thanks for the wonderful photos.
JMK, I agree- hilarious.
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I would like to spend time living in Italy and England after which I would return to Ashland.
We have lived in New England and loved every minute of the autumns. In the beginning, the first fifteen years, the winters were also fun. Never were the hot humid summers without air conditioning. The summers we could join a swim club were the most enjoyable.
We never want to live in Los Angeles again!!
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DR HISAKA, what a lovely Chagall painting. I had never seen it before.
Glad you, too, like it. Chagall painted his fondness for his fiance, Bella, on her birthday.
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What is this?
I go away for two and a half hours, and there's only been five, count 'em, five posts?!?!? There's gonna be some bitch-slapping going on soon if people don't off their lazy buttcheeks and start posting.
SKAMMEN!
PHILISTINE!
;D
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Well... I've never been able to do impersonations... And that certainly was a pale imitation of the master.
Ah, well...
;)
Hello, DRs Ron, Jane and Hisaka!
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Five minutes to the new show on The Style Network...
Foody Call[/b]
-Oh, yes they did, gurrrrllll!
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Its about a young woman of Japanese ancestory who was raised in Hawaii, whio is now attending living with a family in Japan (I believe they are related in some way, cousins, or aunt & uncle) while studying Japanese culture. It is the story of her adventures there.
I watch it in Japanese with English subtitle although occassionally she will run into another American and then start speaking English and suddenly Japenese subtitles pop up
Thank you for the description, DR VIXMOM, and it recalls me that you have mentioned about the show before and asked me if the show's broadcated in Japan too. But, unfortunately, I still have no idea what the show is. ??? :-[
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Oh... "Food Call" is not on until 10:00. "How Do I Look?" is on for another hour...
Oh... "Hell's Kitchen" is on FOX... Hmm...
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DRRodzinski just left after a round of watching selections from the HULLABALOO DVDs. We had a pleasant dinner at Arties, a bit of 60s television, and I'm going to veg out before bed.
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Hi Jose. Three of those 5 posts were mine. :)
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Jose seems to have left without catching my post.
Hi Tomovoz.
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Hello, Jane!
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Hi Jose, you have returned. :)
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Time to wash the dishes now the sun isn't shining in through the window. At times it is too bright for me to stand at the sink.
Bye Jose.
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Laura II, I see you,
and Jane, too.
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We three...we few...we courageous and faithful trio.
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I'd do a monologue, but I'm just plain tuckered out.
The most I can manage is a little song and dance and a commercial announcement.
Of course, the giddiness will return several-fold after the reading and get-together...each will want to share memories and photos and whatnot.
I haven't had much whatnot in my life lately, so I'll take whatever we can get!
:D
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DRRodzinski just left after a round of watching selections from the HULLABALOO DVDs. We had a pleasant dinner at Arties, a bit of 60s television, and I'm going to veg out before bed.
Did you guys play "Spot the Bennett and/or McKechnie"?
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Finished PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET. Enjoyed it very much. Odd seeing Richard Kiley in such an unsympathetic part.
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Wasn't "looking for my Donna" (aka as spot the McKechnie) from "Hair"?
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I was boiling mad a little bit ago. The local CBS affiliate had an engineer fall asleep at the switch and not switch the audio over to Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Thus, for the first twenty minutes, the HDTV broadcast featured lovely sound effects and music but no dialog whatsoever. I watched the analog broadcast until the engineer finally roused himself from his slumbers and hit the button.
I wrote the station a complaint as soon as I logged on.
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Hmm, what to say, what to say? Well, hi everybody! It's been a while. I see that today's heading is "Boca Burger." I've never had one, but I am on a health kick. I've been going to the gym frequently since March, and I love organic foods. Hooray!
I have returned since Jane messaged me on my birthday two days ago. I promised to show her a picture from the evening, and I decided to share it with everyone. I'm in the green. My friends and I are at my favorite Japanese restaurant. It was yummy. Enjoy!
Btw, I'm not online much anymore, but I love emails, and I might be able to stop in every so often. Take care, everybody! I'd love to hear how you guys are doing!
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Page Eight Hullabaloo:
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Tomorrow I head down to my brother's house to help him install his new home theater system in his living room which we have been buying for the last two weeks. His new TV is to be delivered in the early afternoon, and hopefully we will have everything else wired up and ready to go when it arrives. Then, I'll spend some time calibrating his TV, and they should be able to enjoy their new system tomorrow evening.
In any event, I will be E&T for a good portion of the day tomorrow. I will attempt to log on in the morning, but I have no idea when I will get home.
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Lovely to see you here Laura II. I hope it was not difficult being green.
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Welcome back to the lovely Laura II!
Who can name the movie in which this building appeared?
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It's the Amityville house, all remodeled!
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Gee MBarnum, this Amy person sounds great. Big NAKED SPACE fan, loves Rodzinski... She lost me at "married," though.
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Tomovoz, received great CD from you today, with Bob Kuban and the In-Men doing "The Cheater." Man, that's good stuff. Thanks! Also some other rarities I did not have. "Toast and Marmalade for Tea" by Tin Tin... A great song that was not a hit here called "Holy Man". Gee, Cher could have had a hit with that back in the day. Crabby Appleton... You've been filling the gaps in my Top 40 ownership. If you are looking for anything, let me know.
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I was watching Thelma Ritter at work last night in FATHER WAS A FULLBACK. Just brilliant. Little Natalie Wood is quite good in this film too.
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It was weird having BK post through JMK's account. Almost like JMK was possessed.
P.S. This is actually Danise posting through Rodzinski.
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We three are not a crowd. We're not even company.
My echo, my shadow and me.
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Holy Man was not hit in Melbourne either! It was #5 in Sydney. Kolby's backing vocalists were Merry Clayton and the Blackberries.
Steve Kipner from Tin Tin wrote "Physical" for ONJ.
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In Australia, there would be hits in Melbourne that weren't hits at all in Sydney?
That's interesting. I mean, we had plenty of local hits depending on where you lived here, back when such a thing as "local" was possible. But there are more large cities here. It's hard to imagine a tune going to #5 but not even charting in the other city.
"Physical" was inexplicably #1 here for 10 weeks. Tapped into the nascent fitness craze.
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Gotta sleep. Look forward to more pix and descriptions of the pacific northwest HHW frolics.
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Australian charts did not really "come together" until the 1970s. Much Australian information comes from Sydney based media who think their city IS Australia! Adelaide 60's charts differ quite markedly from those in Melbourne and Sydney pre 1970. Hobart was similar to Melbourne and Brisbane more likely to be similar to Sydney.
DJs had far more independence in those days.
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My Nyquil nightcap is starting to take effect here. Off to bed with me.
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Good Afternoon!
Well, lo and behold, the local contractor called me back tonight with my schedule! Will wonders never cease?!?!?
;)
In any case... It appears that right now, I'm only on for the two rehearsal at Noon this coming Wednesday, then next Monday's performance. *They added that Monday and a Wednesday matinee, since they will be closing here on the 2nd. Then the cast and crew will actually get a "Golden Day" or two - no travel, no show - on the 3rd and/or 4th - depending when they choose to head to Detroit where they start on the 5th.
Where was I? Oh...
So, as of now, I'm pretty much a "free man" for the next two weeks. Which is good. I hope.
I've been incredibly non-productive and lazy the past five weeks. All those "hopes and dreams" of getting things organized, going through boxes o' stuff, etc., have remained "hopes and dreams". It's time to put my nose to the grindstone, and get my buttcheeks in gear. *I've also been "indulging" quite a bit - if you couldn't tell from my culinary posts - so my buttcheeks do need to get back into gear. And soon!
However, my plans for NYC seem to be falling into place, and I have an actual list of stuff that needs to get done over the next few weeks. So, I haven't been a total slug. But still...
And I have to admit, I'm getting a bit "excited and scared" in regards to my big move. Which is a good thing. Just means it really going to happen at this point. No turning back. Yes, I could have "prepared" a bit more, but what's to prepare? I love that City, and the City has been very good to me lately.
Onward and upward.
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In other news...
Alas, no lucky numbers for "us" here on HHW. "We" did not win the lottery tonight.
However... Tomorrow is Tuesday, which means there'll be a Mega-Millions drawing. So, if a couple of DRs pick one number each between 1 and 52, and someone else picks another number between 1 and 52 for the Mega Ball...
;D
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And in other news...
There was a "funny" crime report on the news tonight. Apparently, the DC Chief of Police's personal, unmarked car was stolen over the weekend. And it still has yet to turn up.
;)
...Eh?
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Well.. I hope the booksigning and reading went well, and that all those DRs who attended tonight had a splendid time. -And that BK sold a lot of books!
I shall have to read about all the mirth and merriment in the morning.
Goodnight.
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Ooohh...
And it's a Strawberry Moon tonight too!
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I'm back - very LOOOONG day and evening. The reading was really fun, and I'll write about it all in the notes, including our lovely dinner afterwards. I must write like the wind, because we're getting an early start tomorrow, so that we'll have a full day of rehearsal.
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New notes going up momentarily. I know MBarnum and company will be on when they get home, and I do believe they have photographs to share.