Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on June 09, 2025, 12:06:00 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes won no Tony Awards, and now it is time for you to post until the award-winning cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: CARILLON!
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Notes catalyzed. Converted.
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Pirates won no awards.
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I'm halfway through Drat! Permanent smile on my face.
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It is raining.
I fell asleep and missed the whole darn thing.
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Flesh is fine if it's fresh.
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TOD: Just speaking for myself Tony & Oscar wise.....there are just too many movies, musicals, and shows and PERFORMERS that I don't like.....
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Just finished Drat! Act one has better songs. Act two moves along quicker. Sydney was superb. Alex sang very well. Fine farceurs in the supporting cast. Pacing and focus excellent. Who was the director again? He showed skill at keeping everything moving.
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Good night, all.
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Right about act one having better songs, although act two does have one of my favorites, I Like Him.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Sorry I wasn't more of a contributor to the Tony bash.
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Good morning, all!
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I slept surprisingly well, given that most of yesterday was a mediocre to lousy day. The tendonitis in my right arm and hand was at an all-time high yesterday, so - while I'm dependent on the computer for many things - I decided it was time to cut back my time on it and hope the plague goes away sooner than later..
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I didn't get to Act Two of Drat! The Cat!, as I wanted to, so I'll try again this morning after kitty cleanup.
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Nor did I get to the Tony Awards. By 8:15 I was ready for bed, and there I went.
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TOD:
For the Oscars, it could be the specialness has gone away. My guess about that has been that everything about the feel of movies vs. TV has changed with so many of the movies on TV very quickly now.
And I think having up to ten Best Picture nominees takes away something for the viewer, even though it's valuable for the filmmakers and studios.
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For the Tonys, somehow everything felt off with the Pluto TV pre-show being hard to find and navigate; then on our TV the sound and the picture were so out of sync.
When the CBS TV portion of the show started at 8 pm Eastern, it felt like coming into a show that had already started an hour and a half or so earlier - which of course was exactly what was happening - but the TV show was pretending to be just starting.
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For people who care about hearing the speeches for awards like book, score and choreography and the technical awards, and the Lifetime Achievement award (this year given to Harvey Fierstein) and the Isabelle Stephenson Award (this year given to Celia Keenan-Bolger) - the problems with Pluto TV maybe could've mattered to enjoyment of the whole event.
I was grateful that KevinH was reporting the early winners to us last night.
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Millstone Alert -
Just ONE, count it ONE, post for vixmom before a brand new millstone!
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Good morning, all.
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Background to the Jonathan Groff - Keanu Reeves Tonys moment:
They apparently enjoyed working together in "The Matrix Resurrections."
(at 1:58 into this video) on rehearsing on the movie with a sweaty Mr. Reeves
Jonathan Groff Spills Details on Training with Sweaty Keanu Reeves for The Matrix Resurrections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buoiioDrgIE
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Last night was a wipeout for me. I'd expected to be done with some things and then settle into the awards broadcast, but even before it started we had other things come up that needed to be attended to, so I got to it late.
I already knew that some of the awards I would have cared about had already taken place. Was it Pluto TV? I don't even know what that is. A cable channel? Something on a Firestick? Online? Free? Do you have to subscribe? I'm really tired of having to figure that out about so many things I'd watch if it weren't for our now-abominably-fragmented media world. And lifetime achievement awards, of all things, can't even be on the main program? What utter bullshit. So already I'm pissed at the damned Tonys.
Anyhoo, in the midst of tending to various things, I saw a couple of minutes here and there, nothing too thrilling. I briefly checked here a couple of times and it looked like almost no one was watching it live, or was here posting about it, so I went about my business. Suddenly I thought I heard our cat, Mikey, meow -- like, from some great distance, or from behind a closed door. So I go looking to make sure of where he is and that he's all right. About FORTY MINUTES later, having looked in what I thought was every nook and cranny of the house, I shine a flashlight into a very hard to see corner of my bedroom where things are kind of piled up, and there's his fat ASS (it's not really fat), sound asleep. It wasn't his meow I'd heard after all. If it had been, he's very vocal and he would have kept yelling for us. So some sound, somewhere, maybe even on the damned TV, had sounded like his meow to me, setting off a wild goose chase.
So it was just a crazy distracted evening, and I just wasn't much in the mood for this particular Tony awards show anyway.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :)
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I missed seeing Audra, I saw part of the song from Maybe Happy Ending which looked interesting, I saw the In Memoriam, I saw the award go to the woman in Sunset Boulevard who gave a two-hour thank you speech... I know I'm forgetting a few things... I saw the ten-year anniversary Hamilton put-together which was excellent and which, for my taste, could have included bits from a couple more of the songs (I'd watched the show a few times on Disney+ and grew to appreciate it)... oh, I don't know what else, but it was just fragments here and there.
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ChasSmith, so glad everything was OK with Mikey!
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I wonder if the very recent renaming of "MAX" back to "HBO MAX" had anything to do with this news being in the works, about HBO's parent company Warner Brothers Discovery.
Warner Bros. Discovery to Split Into Two Companies
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-split-two-companies-streaming-tv-1236423250/
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As to the TOD -- what others have said -- the magic has gone from these shows in recent years.
They used to be an Event for those watching at home, and I don't mean just for us here who could be online chatting at the same time. No, they've lost their Event status for most people I know, whether their interest was Oscars or Tonys, and even less for the other two. I could count on one hand the number of friends who know an awards show is coming up and make definite plans to be watching it. Life isn't like that anymore, and we've lost something there.
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On the Evita front, I think the last thing I posted yesterday afternoon was that things were going quite well.
Shortly after that, they went to bloody hell. Well, maybe not BLOODY hell, but certainly plain hell. In one song they had completely omitted programming two consecutive patches (sorry, I know this doesn't make sense to everyone here), so those are missing and the following three or four patches are fine but as a result, they're labeled with wrong bar numbers. For another song they have a set of patches that don't relate to that piece at all, don't ask me what in the hell they DO relate to. So I need to document all of this and get a note off to the programmers. It always amazes me how this would seem to indicate that nobody else has noticed these things. How can that be? Oh, and this COULD be a sign that there are errors in those places in the other keyboard books, so I need to alert our MD.
That's going to be my day. Well, not all of it. I also get to take the trash down to the road this evening. :)
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For one show several years ago, I believe it was Shrek, I'd documented so many errors in the Keyboard 1 programming (surely one of their more popular and heavily rented shows) that the owner of the company said he should hire me to go through all of their shows. He was mainly joking, but he was right, someone should be doing that.
The 2013 revival edition of Cinderella was also a disaster. We were the first ones requesting the programming for those books, and they were literally pounding it out in time for our rehearsals. It was rife with problems, especially being a rush job, and they were probably sick of hearing from me. He ended up giving us the rentals free of charge in compensation for my having to deal with so many issues, and that's practically unheard of.
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Okay, enough with the keyboard talk. Someone else say something!
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Patchwork needed!
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We could make a nice quilt!
Like the ones Harvey Fierstein is making all the time now, up where I live - you know - some guy that just got a lifetime achievement award for something or other that wasn't fit for broadcasting.
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
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It's fun to hear that keyboard talk, DR ChasSmith.
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Thanks DR Kevin.
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Thank you Freddie. I have always loved carousel horses.
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TOD: Just speaking for myself Tony & Oscar wise.....there are just too many movies, musicals, and shows and PERFORMERS that I don't like.....
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It's great to hear about those film classes, DR MichaelG. It makes me remember things I'd attend in L.A. in the 70s and 80s. Little film festivals here and there, always, but there was a notable (for me) series of informal classes on Hitchcock films that was held in one of the buildings on Hollywood Blvd. For several weeks running, they had the likes of Bruce Dern, Tippi Hedren, James Stewart, John Forsythe, Joseph Stefano, and even Miklos Rosza - I kid you not - watching a film they'd been part of, and talking to us about their experiences with Hitchcock. I have a few pictures and autographs from there, but I wish I'd gotten many more.
In the midst of Covid, I "attended" an online 4-week tribute to Roger Corman, which turned out to be way more rewarding than I'd even thought it might be.
I like that kind of thing, and should be making myself aware of local ones. Your French Cinema series should be fantastic.
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you both enjoy the French Cinema class.
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Good morning.
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
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TOD: I don't know about the live Tony or Oscar shows. I will watch some clips on Youtube later. I wonder if I'm representative of theater goers?
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?
LOL. Shows you how much I know about movies.
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?
The tentative list is:
- Port of Shadows (1938)
- Les Diaboliques (1955)
- Le Monte-Charge (1962)
- The Soft Skin (1964)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- La Balance (1982)
- Summertime (2015)
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The Buñuel is the only one I've even heard of, and we haven't seen any of these. It seems like good prep for our French opera this fall.
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I haven't attended any of our local film festivals. They probably wouldn't draw quite the names you list from your LA experiences, DR ChasSmith, but they still often get some pretty good folks as guests. Another retirement project now that I'm watching films more regularly.
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For many of these classes the plan is to also see clips from adjacent films (same style, same director, or same actor/actress, depending on the focus of the week).
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Perhaps those clips will get us to the full 90 years, rather than the 80 covered in the featured films. :)
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Death Becomes Her looks like fun.
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For many of these classes the plan is to also see clips from adjacent films (same style, same director, or same actor/actress, depending on the focus of the week).
This is my 4th attempt to comment that it sounds interesting.
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Yay, it didn't time out.
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?
The tentative list is:
- Port of Shadows (1938)
- Les Diaboliques (1955)
- Le Monte-Charge (1962)
- The Soft Skin (1964)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- La Balance (1982)
- Summertime (2015)
No Les Enfants du Paradis? My favorite French Film of all time!
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
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Feel better tendonitis for elmore.
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Strange list of French films - but interesting to include The Soft Skin rather than one of Truffaut's more well known classics - but I absolutely love The Soft Skin - gorgeous Delerue score and great performances.
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Site seems a bit wonky - checking on it.
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No Les Enfants du Paradis? My favorite French Film of all time!
I don't know that film, but I looked it up and I see it's too long for our class. The class is 2½ hours and there needs to be time for discussion. So 90 minutes is perfect, 2 hours is OK, and anything longer doesn't work in this format.
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Haven't heard back from the site guy.
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Still wonky.
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I'll call there if I don't hear back in fifteen minutes.
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Wow! 807 Guests to the HHW site on a Monday afternoon!
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No Les Enfants du Paradis? My favorite French Film of all time!
I don't know that film, but I looked it up and I see it's too long for our class. The class is 2½ hours and there needs to be time for discussion. So 90 minutes is perfect, 2 hours is OK, and anything longer doesn't work in this format.
I highly recommend you watch it.
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Still wonky.
I couldn't post before we went for a walk and now the site seems to be working.
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Pirates looks like fun.
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Didn't care for Gypsy or Sunset Boulevard.
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Good ratings news for the Tonys.
TV Ratings for Tony Awards 2025 Highest Since 2019; Streaming Audience Biggest Ever
https://playbill.com/article/tv-ratings-for-tony-awards-2025-highest-since-2019-streaming-biggest-ever
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DR George, I hope you didn't forget to do Wordle.
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Keith got Wordle in four.
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I haven't attended any of our local film festivals. They probably wouldn't draw quite the names you list from your LA experiences, DR ChasSmith, but they still often get some pretty good folks as guests. Another retirement project now that I'm watching films more regularly.
That one experience was kind of unique in who they were able to get. It was something called Sherwood Oaks Experimental College and they either had the space themselves or rented these rooms above Hollywood Blvd. - I think it was in the block between Cahuenga and Ivar - and once a week we'd sit there in a small classroom or in the larger room with a projector and portable screen, and the guests were wonderful. We watched 16mm prints, and I remember James Stewart brought his own print of Rear Window for them to run.
(This was in the days before Hitch's Paramount films came out of hiding, so you'd only get to see them at things like film festivals. At the county art museum, Hitchcock brought his own 35mm print of Rear Window, etc. etc.)
I took a few photos of these people -- all too few -- and I should scan them. It's amazing to reflect back on all of that, and how we took those opportunities completely for granted then.
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Here's a reference to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Oaks_Film_School
That might have been the only thing of theirs I attended.
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I know we could all name our list of French, German, whatever, and I could rattle off a dozen more of the critical 1970s films to populate another such festival. There's so much great stuff.
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Congrats, Vixmom!
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We're almost Wordle twins! ;D
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Millstone Alert -
Just ONE, count it ONE, post for vixmom before a brand new millstone!
PUUUUUUSSSSSSHHHHHHHH (but not too much)!!!!!!!!!!
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We're almost Wordle twins! ;D
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I did watch the Tony show last night. Cynthia Erivo was in rare form as producer/host and singer of powerful songs.
I enjoyed, somewhat, several of the numbers sung.
The subject matter of some of the shows is quite something else, especially for musicals. Oh, well.
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ChasSmith, so glad everything was OK with Mikey!
Ditto!!
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It has been a "blah" Monday.
Don't know why. Don't care much.
I do know, however, that no matter how much I refrain from watching the news, 47's dirty hands seem to reach in and befoul everything he touches. And that is from NOT watching but being assaulted by news materials.
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I re-watched "Rosemary's Baby" yesterday afternoon.
Ben Mankiewicz and Paul Giamatti did the intro and outro and amazed me with their comments.
For instance: They both contend that there is an ambiguity in the film as to whether Rosemary was in reality or dreaming all of it.
I, for one, say "PREPOSTEROUS". There is a clear delineation between her dreams and drug-indued hallucinations and her reality.
Sigh.
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DR Chas I have spent many hours hunting for cats that were simply curled up sleeping someplace ;D
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I re-watched "Rosemary's Baby" yesterday afternoon.
Ben Mankiewicz and Paul Giamatti did the intro and outro and amazed me with their comments.
For instance: They both contend that there is an ambiguity in the film as to whether Rosemary was in reality or dreaming all of it.
I, for one, say "PREPOSTEROUS". There is a clear delineation between her dreams and drug-indued hallucinations and her reality.
Sigh.
Hmmm.
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Well, this is interesting:
Paramount Could Violate Anti-Bribery Law if it Pays to Settle Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, Senators Claim (https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-bribery-law-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit-senators-1236404484/)
:o
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Done about eight pages so far and need a break. So much time doing research - hours - once I actually write, it's fun.
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Have to get ne readers - i can't focus with these anymore and it's making things very difficult in terms of writing. Tomorrow I'll go to CVS and deal with it.
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Well, this is interesting:
Paramount Could Violate Anti-Bribery Law if it Pays to Settle Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, Senators Claim (https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-bribery-law-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit-senators-1236404484/)
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Very.
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For one show several years ago, I believe it was Shrek, I'd documented so many errors in the Keyboard 1 programming (surely one of their more popular and heavily rented shows) that the owner of the company said he should hire me to go through all of their shows. He was mainly joking, but he was right, someone should be doing that.
The 2013 revival edition of Cinderella was also a disaster. We were the first ones requesting the programming for those books, and they were literally pounding it out in time for our rehearsals. It was rife with problems, especially being a rush job, and they were probably sick of hearing from me. He ended up giving us the rentals free of charge in compensation for my having to deal with so many issues, and that's practically unheard of.
Oh, my goodness! :o I can't imagine having to deal with that.
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Not having to is one (only one ::) ) benefit to working with prerecorded tracks. But regardless, a live band is pretty much always better.
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
Hope it's fun and you like the movies!
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?
The tentative list is:
- Port of Shadows (1938)
- Les Diaboliques (1955)
- Le Monte-Charge (1962)
- The Soft Skin (1964)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- La Balance (1982)
- Summertime (2015)
No Les Enfants du Paradis? My favorite French Film of all time!
No The Baker's Wife?
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Good ratings news for the Tonys.
TV Ratings for Tony Awards 2025 Highest Since 2019; Streaming Audience Biggest Ever
https://playbill.com/article/tv-ratings-for-tony-awards-2025-highest-since-2019-streaming-biggest-ever
That's good.
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I have given up on the Oscars and the Tony and the Emmy awards as I have not been to Broadway since before the pandemic and I just don’t care for the movies being released. The same thing for tv too many programs and too many shows that have little or no interest and I don’t want to pay for the streaming services
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DR George, I hope you didn't forget to do Wordle.
I didn't! Just got to it later than usual. :)
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Gratuitous Post #100!!
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Keith got Wordle in four.
Nice!
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Thanks, Jane.
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Have to get ne readers - i can't focus with these anymore and it's making things very difficult in terms of writing. Tomorrow I'll go to CVS and deal with it.
I get mine at the local Dollar (and a quarter) Tree for a dollar and a quarter. :)
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I have given up on the Oscars and the Tony and the Emmy awards as I have not been to Broadway since before the pandemic and I just don’t care for the movies being released. The same thing for tv too many programs and too many shows that have little or no interest and I don’t want to pay for the streaming services
Ditto, Ditto, and Ditto...and I haven't been to Broadway since 1995. :-\
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I still buy cast recordings, but not as many as I used to. I need to stop slacking in regards to the purchasing of said recordings!
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This made me think of DR elmore3003, for some reason:
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Good evening!
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Congrats! Me too!
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I have given up on the Oscars and the Tony and the Emmy awards as I have not been to Broadway since before the pandemic and I just don’t care for the movies being released. The same thing for tv too many programs and too many shows that have little or no interest and I don’t want to pay for the streaming services
Ditto, Ditto, and Ditto...and I haven't been to Broadway since 1995. :-\
I don't have a tv, haven't been to a movie theater since the mid 90s. I've only seen two shows on Broadway, but I see the tours.
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I still buy cast recordings, but not as many as I used to. I need to stop slacking in regards to the purchasing of said recordings!
I can't remember the last CD I bought. I think my daughter gave me "Something's Rotten" for Christmas one year. How long ago was that?
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I tossed all my CDs a while ago. The only ones I kept were if I knew the artist.
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No The Baker's Wife?
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Too long for this class!
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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Thirteen pages so far. Have to take a long break now, then I'll try to do a couple more. My eyeballs can't even focus anymore.
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Had a grilled hot dog with chili cheese and onions from the Beverly Glen Deli - boy do I miss Jerry's Deli - best chili cheese and onion hot dog ever.
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Dear Lord, how can it be eight o'clock already???
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I should probably have something else to eat but what?
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That is the question.
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Guess I should figure that out.
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I have nothing in the house.
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Enter page five.
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I finally have an answer why the site had been screwy over the past week - trying to do something about it now. It's most amusing and truly explains the GUESTS of late.
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Soon they WILL be late GUESTS, if you get my meaning.
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This made me think of DR elmore3003, for some reason:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7988.0;attach=26422)
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Congrats! Me too!
Thanks, Kevin, and Congrats to you!
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I still buy cast recordings, but not as many as I used to. I need to stop slacking in regards to the purchasing of said recordings!
I can't remember the last CD I bought. I think my daughter gave me "Something's Rotten" for Christmas one year. How long ago was that?
Ten years...it was released in 2015!
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No The Baker's Wife?
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Too long for this class!
Ah. I remember seeing it years ago during a local film festival.
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Had a grilled hot dog with chili cheese and onions from the Beverly Glen Deli - boy do I miss Jerry's Deli - best chili cheese and onion hot dog ever.
What a coinkydink (almost). Today, I got a Combo sub at the local Meconi's, and on a whim, I also got their chili with cheese and onions. Quite tasty. :)
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I finally have an answer why the site had been screwy over the past week - trying to do something about it now. It's most amusing and truly explains the GUESTS of late.
I wonder what it could be!
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Soon they WILL be late GUESTS, if you get my meaning.
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Give 'em hell, Harry! ;)
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Good morning all! I signed up for next term's film class, "90 Years of French Cinema." It starts on the 26th and goes for 7 films, skipping one week in July. My wife has signed up too after seeing how much I enjoyed the last class.
I hope you watch The Blue Angel, with Marlene Deitrich playing the heartless boozehound harlot Lola Lola.
That would be a class in German films. Do you know, DR MichaelG, what the films will be?
The tentative list is:
- Port of Shadows (1938)
- Les Diaboliques (1955)
- Le Monte-Charge (1962)
- The Soft Skin (1964)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- La Balance (1982)
- Summertime (2015)
I know all but La Balance and Summertime. Port of Shadows is wonderful proto-noir.
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I'm tired. But it's too early to go to bed.
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Finished all the stuff that isn't the introduction.
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No Agnes Varda and no Rohmer. Unless Summertime is Rohmer's Tale of Summertime
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Mrs Rodzinski left early this morning to go to Sea-Tac for a flight to Albuquerque. As I got the kids to school a couple hours later, she phoned me. She was upset and hurt, having been run into by a speeding driver and smashed into a guardrail. The little Audi protected her as its last duty as a functioning car. Airbags deployed. State troopers helped her out. This was on I-5 in Marysville, George, if you remember that place. The airbags scuffed her arms pretty bad, but she is otherwise ok, physically. The perpetrator did at least stay and help and admit his fault.
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Vibes for the Mrs. Rodz. That's a scary story.
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No Agnes Varda and no Rohmer. Unless Summertime is Rohmer's Tale of Summertime
You can't get to every great French director in just 7 weeks! I think he may be veering away from some of the ones we are more likely to have seen on our own.
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In the moment, I had one kid who was freaking out and could not attend school and one was fine to attend. So I dropped her off, then the boy and I headed south. Didn’t really know where Marysville is, and she hadn’t yet texted me the specific place she’d be. Tow yard or hospital or what. I pulled off the highway at one point to check my phone. And pull into a gas station, then a cop knocks on my window saying I didn’t stop fully at the highway exit stop. I explain my situation. He lets me go with a verbal admonishment.
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The course description mentions some different films from the syllabus, so we'll see what the list really turns out to be.
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Hope Mrs. Rodz is OK!
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Found the tow wrecker place, where she was waiting with everything removed from the car (except our garage door opener, d’oh!). We went for a comforting lunch in Bellingham. Then to a walk-in clinic where she was given a tetanus shot which I guess is a thing when your airbags deploy. Insurance set us up with a rental car. So she drive the boy home while I picked up the girl at a friend’s house.
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Summertime is the Catherine Corsini film.
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Thanks fellas. She’s banged up but ok. Just shocking for us.
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Finished with my viewing and must now write some damn notes.
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Mrs Rodzinski left early this morning to go to Sea-Tac for a flight to Albuquerque. As I got the kids to school a couple hours later, she phoned me. She was upset and hurt, having been run into by a speeding driver and smashed into a guardrail. The little Audi protected her as its last duty as a functioning car. Airbags deployed. State troopers helped her out. This was on I-5 in Marysville, George, if you remember that place. The airbags scuffed her arms pretty bad, but she is otherwise ok, physically. The perpetrator did at least stay and help and admit his fault.
Oh, my goodness! Thankfully, she's pretty much okay, physically! And good on the perpetrator for sticking around and admitting fault!
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In the moment, I had one kid who was freaking out and could not attend school and one was fine to attend. So I dropped her off, then the boy and I headed south. Didn’t really know where Marysville is, and she hadn’t yet texted me the specific place she’d be. Tow yard or hospital or what. I pulled off the highway at one point to check my phone. And pull into a gas station, then a cop knocks on my window saying I didn’t stop fully at the highway exit stop. I explain my situation. He lets me go with a verbal admonishment.
Good on the cop!
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Let's ditch this page.
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Six!
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Trouble posting
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Found the tow wrecker place, where she was waiting with everything removed from the car (except our garage door opener, d’oh!). We went for a comforting lunch in Bellingham. Then to a walk-in clinic where she was given a tetanus shot which I guess is a thing when your airbags deploy. Insurance set us up with a rental car. So she drive the boy home while I picked up the girl at a friend’s house.
Was that your only garage door opener? They can be gotten for fairly cheaply.
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When I had my garage door repaired last year, the garage door opener didn't work anymore.
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The guy who repaired the door said that he could get one at a local store, so I said okay.
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He charged me I think $80 or so! :o
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I went online after he left and saw that I could've gotten a pair of them for only $15! :P
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Whatever bot blocking they're doing isn't working. There are currently over 35,000 "GUESTS" here.
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Trying to take us down.
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Our host is working on it right now.
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Time to nuke those suckers to kingdom come.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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Page six is annoying.
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Really annoying.
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Not very sporting.
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Ridic.
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Hopefully, he'll get it fixed sooner than later.
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We shall see.
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Well, guess I'll try to change the topic.