Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 29, 2025, 12:12:56 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had stooges, and now it is time for you to post until the stooge cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ELECTRIC!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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Wordle 1,501 4/6
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Good morning, all!
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Larry, I just sent you a PM. :)
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Oh, and good morning to you!
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Today is laundry day. Thatch and I slept well last night, about 8.5 hours. I had a long dream about an Encores! rehearsal for something and a drive out into the country, which looked more like the farmland outside Middletown, Ohio, than anything outside Manhattan.
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DR George, you are certainly up early!
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DR George, you are certainly up early!
Actually, I'm still awake from last night. ::)
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DR George, you are certainly up early!
Actually, I'm still awake from last night. ::)
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DR George, it seems okay! Thanks so much for your beautiful work.
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DR George, it seems okay! Thanks so much for your beautiful work.
My pleasure! Feel free to share the link.
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I sent my publisher an email asking Ages 11-18?
When I received the galleys, he had asked me about an age range, but 11 seems young. I would have figured maybe 16 and Up.
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Larry, are you going to mention or link your book on castrecl, since it's show-related - or are you planning to wait and let your publisher handle all the publicity?
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Today is laundry day. Thatch and I slept well last night, about 8.5 hours. I had a long dream about an Encores! rehearsal for something and a drive out into the country, which looked more like the farmland outside Middletown, Ohio, than anything outside Manhattan.
Maybe the rehearsal was at Jack Viertel's house in Tarrytown - it kind of looks like country living there going from the train to the house.
Jack Viertel is heading a program at Carnegie Hall that Rob Berman is music directing in March 2026. Maybe the dream is a sign you'll be working on that.
The Secret Life of the American Musical
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/03/02/The-Secret-Life-of-the-American-Musical-0800PM
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If you or your publisher are trying to get you a Times article, don't be shy about mentioning that you were quoted as an orchestrator (and expert) in the Arts and Leisure article about the ballet as recently as 2024.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, all.
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Well, this has been quite the week with three (3) books happening on HHW.
BK's is here now, on Kindle.
DR Elmore's on Kindle will be released on Aug. 4.
DR John G., what's the ETA on yours?
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The bar exam begins in 20. Our two students haven’t shown up yet.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Seize the... pasta?
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:)
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More interviews today.
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Yesterday I was playing through the songs for this recital thing coming up, and - voila! - I think I've stumbled onto the BLACK HOLE of open fourths and fifths and minor second dissonances and suspensions and whatever else you care to throw into the soup of "today's" music.
It's certainly not the first appearance of the phenomenon, but I believe the BLACK HOLE of Dear Evan Hansen sucked all of that energy in from past, presence and future, and there's a dense concentration of it right there that you wouldn't believe.
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Notes reconnoitered. Reckoned.
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Yesterday I was playing through the songs for this recital thing coming up, and - voila! - I think I've stumbled onto the BLACK HOLE of open fourths and fifths and minor second dissonances and suspensions and whatever else you care to throw into the soup of "today's" music.
It's certainly not the first appearance of the phenomenon, but I believe the BLACK HOLE of Dear Evan Hansen sucked all of that energy in from past, presence and future, and there's a dense concentration of it right there that you wouldn't believe.
This is pure poetry!
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We are quite the erudite group here at HHW!
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Book looks great Elmore. Should just say it’s for children of all ages!
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Page Two
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Our local Channel Six started broadcasting The Three Stooges shorts in 1959 or 1960. At first they were on Saturday mornings.
Later on they were on daily at 4 or 4:30 p.m. hosted by an execrable comic named "Harlow Hickenlooper".
I also enjoyed the pie fights....especially one where in the middle of the chaos a man in a tuxedo said: "Somebody give me a pie." AND slam - right in the face!
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Stooges were still popular when I was a kid. Stooges and Little Rascals were on TV every day after school. Just my own hang-up as a kid:I didn’t like Moe and how mean and violent he seemed. Loved Curly and Larry. Shemp episodes were not appreciated.
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I've never seen anything close to the complete run of The Three Stooges, but I always enjoyed them. As a kid, I saw them on TV (along with Laurel and Hardy, Little Rascals, etc.) and as extra features at kids' matinees at movie theeders. I have that box set of DVDs from a decade or so ago that I should go through more thoroughly.
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Yesterday I was playing through the songs for this recital thing coming up, and - voila! - I think I've stumbled onto the BLACK HOLE of open fourths and fifths and minor second dissonances and suspensions and whatever else you care to throw into the soup of "today's" music.
It's certainly not the first appearance of the phenomenon, but I believe the BLACK HOLE of Dear Evan Hansen sucked all of that energy in from past, presence and future, and there's a dense concentration of it right there that you wouldn't believe.
But as a stage musical, do you like Dear Evan Hansen ?
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I think, like BK, I first saw the Three Stooges at a kiddie matinee on Saturdays at the Paramount Theater. When they went to television, they and the Little Rascals were two of my and my brother Macbeth's favorite programs.
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I know you didn’t ask me, but I prefer the horror sequel, Fear Evan Hanson.
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Book looks great Elmore. Should just say it’s for children of all ages!
There are gay references and a few obscenities, so i've asked the publisher to change the ages to "16 and Up." I do not need any "Christian" do-gooders raising hell about this book.
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I know you didn’t ask me, but I prefer the horror sequel, Fear Evan Hanson.
Who wouldn't?
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I know you didn’t ask me, but I prefer the horror sequel, Fear Evan Hanson.
Or the special adult interest version, Dear Evan Handsome.
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Fear Evan Hansen... What is he waving through that window?
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The song "You Will be Found" would take on a whole new meaning for the horror version.
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Book looks great Elmore. Should just say it’s for children of all ages!
There are gay references and a few obscenities, so i've asked the publisher to change the ages to "16 and Up." I do not need any "Christian" do-gooders raising hell about this book.
Sad, but yeah, I get it.
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I got an email telling me "Time to Order Your Rosh Hashanah Cards"
The year is speeding by.
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Yesterday I was playing through the songs for this recital thing coming up, and - voila! - I think I've stumbled onto the BLACK HOLE of open fourths and fifths and minor second dissonances and suspensions and whatever else you care to throw into the soup of "today's" music.
It's certainly not the first appearance of the phenomenon, but I believe the BLACK HOLE of Dear Evan Hansen sucked all of that energy in from past, presence and future, and there's a dense concentration of it right there that you wouldn't believe.
But as a stage musical, do you like Dear Evan Hansen ?
I've never seen it. I only suffer, like a Christian martyr, through the songs I must play for people.
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Yesterday I was playing through the songs for this recital thing coming up, and - voila! - I think I've stumbled onto the BLACK HOLE of open fourths and fifths and minor second dissonances and suspensions and whatever else you care to throw into the soup of "today's" music.
It's certainly not the first appearance of the phenomenon, but I believe the BLACK HOLE of Dear Evan Hansen sucked all of that energy in from past, presence and future, and there's a dense concentration of it right there that you wouldn't believe.
But as a stage musical, do you like Dear Evan Hansen ?
I've never seen it. I only suffer, like a Christian martyr, through the songs I must play for people.
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Very good.
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I did not care for the Three Stooges. I'm sure they were nice people. I went all through school with Moe's grandson.
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Very good.
Thanks, Jane!
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Like DR RODZINSKI Larry and Curly were my favorites.
Joe Besser was a big zero for me because of the obnoxious kid he played on the Abbott & Costello tv show....Joe DeRita was okay in the movies.
I started being very critical at a young age LOL.
The Little Rascals were always fun.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep.
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English muffin eaten.
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Pill one taken.
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elmore, I had the same age issue on the very first Adriana Hofstetter book. I hadn't, at the time, thought it would be for young adult readers, and that book certainly isn't due to murderer and the reason for it and the murderer's monologue of why they did it. Soon thereafter, when I realized that young people really liked the character, I regretted not the plot or the murder, but the monologue, which is fairly explicit. After that, I made the age range 12 and up and was careful with all the other books in that series.
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Oh, and elmore, got the We Transfer.
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Just saw this loverly review of Vegas Can Be Murder from Robert Yacko - he really loved this one. He's getting ready to do an audio book on Preview Harvey and if that one comes out well, maybe we'll do the Harry Stearns trio but only IF I find a Bernice to do that part.
5.0 out of 5 stars Showgirls, Lounge Acts & Murder on the Menu
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2025
Harry Stearns, retired Hollywood agent turned retired private detective, begrudgingly returns for another case. It’s the mid-70’s and Vegas is calling, against his better judgement. Even worse, it’s the Vegas of lounge singers and decade old jokes, though the posh parts of Sin City are ever-present.
Of course, when Harry is here, so is Dr. Pepper, Black Jack gum, lots of yummy meals (especially at the Hamlet), and wonderful music, from Mozart to Sondheim to Liberace to “I Talk to the Trees”. He’s a man who loves his Bernaise and tolerates his Bernice – the latter, of course, being his sassy secretary, as set in her ways as Harry is. Along with the ins and outs of solving the looming mystery, it’s the crackle of the Harry and Bernice relationship banter that is the engine that drives this intriguing train. I’d call it older Tracy & Hepburn meets Fred and Ethel Mertz, and when Bernice is there for the ride-along, it is even more charming.
I found the story addictive, a page-turner from the get-go, and as much fun to try and solve as it was to take the ride with Harry and company. So put the top down and take a drive to the desert with this curmudgeonly master-sleuth, and don’t worry about your hair. It’ll be another unique, wonderful adventure, and maybe you’ll solve this before someone gets the… (no spoilers here). Riveting and delicious!
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Too bad Selma Diamond has shuffled off the mortal coil.
That's the voice I always hear when I read Bernice.
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Love Selma. I modeled Bernice on the one and only Eve Arden, but Selma would have been great.
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Of course.... Eve Arden in Anatomy of a Murder....perfect.
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Page Three.
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elmore, I had the same age issue on the very first Adriana Hofstetter book. I hadn't, at the time, thought it would be for young adult readers, and that book certainly isn't due to murderer and the reason for it and the murderer's monologue of why they did it. Soon thereafter, when I realized that young people really liked the character, I regretted not the plot or the murder, but the monologue, which is fairly explicit. After that, I made the age range 12 and up and was careful with all the other books in that series.
Vibes that there will also be several more books in elmore's book series!
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Just saw this loverly review of Vegas Can Be Murder from Robert Yacko - he really loved this one. He's getting ready to do an audio book on Preview Harvey and if that one comes out well, maybe we'll do the Harry Stearns trio but only IF I find a Bernice to do that part.
5.0 out of 5 stars Showgirls, Lounge Acts & Murder on the Menu
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2025
Harry Stearns, retired Hollywood agent turned retired private detective, begrudgingly returns for another case. It’s the mid-70’s and Vegas is calling, against his better judgement. Even worse, it’s the Vegas of lounge singers and decade old jokes, though the posh parts of Sin City are ever-present.
Of course, when Harry is here, so is Dr. Pepper, Black Jack gum, lots of yummy meals (especially at the Hamlet), and wonderful music, from Mozart to Sondheim to Liberace to “I Talk to the Trees”. He’s a man who loves his Bernaise and tolerates his Bernice – the latter, of course, being his sassy secretary, as set in her ways as Harry is. Along with the ins and outs of solving the looming mystery, it’s the crackle of the Harry and Bernice relationship banter that is the engine that drives this intriguing train. I’d call it older Tracy & Hepburn meets Fred and Ethel Mertz, and when Bernice is there for the ride-along, it is even more charming.
I found the story addictive, a page-turner from the get-go, and as much fun to try and solve as it was to take the ride with Harry and company. So put the top down and take a drive to the desert with this curmudgeonly master-sleuth, and don’t worry about your hair. It’ll be another unique, wonderful adventure, and maybe you’ll solve this before someone gets the… (no spoilers here). Riveting and delicious!
Great review, BK!
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Just saw this loverly review of Vegas Can Be Murder from Robert Yacko - he really loved this one. He's getting ready to do an audio book on Preview Harvey and if that one comes out well, maybe we'll do the Harry Stearns trio but only IF I find a Bernice to do that part.
5.0 out of 5 stars Showgirls, Lounge Acts & Murder on the Menu
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2025
Harry Stearns, retired Hollywood agent turned retired private detective, begrudgingly returns for another case. It’s the mid-70’s and Vegas is calling, against his better judgement. Even worse, it’s the Vegas of lounge singers and decade old jokes, though the posh parts of Sin City are ever-present.
Of course, when Harry is here, so is Dr. Pepper, Black Jack gum, lots of yummy meals (especially at the Hamlet), and wonderful music, from Mozart to Sondheim to Liberace to “I Talk to the Trees”. He’s a man who loves his Bernaise and tolerates his Bernice – the latter, of course, being his sassy secretary, as set in her ways as Harry is. Along with the ins and outs of solving the looming mystery, it’s the crackle of the Harry and Bernice relationship banter that is the engine that drives this intriguing train. I’d call it older Tracy & Hepburn meets Fred and Ethel Mertz, and when Bernice is there for the ride-along, it is even more charming.
I found the story addictive, a page-turner from the get-go, and as much fun to try and solve as it was to take the ride with Harry and company. So put the top down and take a drive to the desert with this curmudgeonly master-sleuth, and don’t worry about your hair. It’ll be another unique, wonderful adventure, and maybe you’ll solve this before someone gets the… (no spoilers here). Riveting and delicious!
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Craig is arriving soon for a visit.
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Craig is arriving soon for a visit.
Nice! Have a good time!
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Whoa! I had wondered recently if anyone could tackle Preview Harvey, and Yacko's so good at characterizations. Highest hopes for that one.
As for Bernice, we (my boss, actually) had our own real secretary Bernice back in those very years (mid-1970s) in the Hills of Beverly, and that's exactly how I picture her. This Bernice was more quite and demure, but the Eve Arden voice would still be perfect.
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Good afternoon.
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Book looks great Elmore. Should just say it’s for children of all ages!
There are gay references and a few obscenities, so i've asked the publisher to change the ages to "16 and Up." I do not need any "Christian" do-gooders raising hell about this book.
Sometimes, however, controversy creates sales...sometimes. ;)
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I am going to say something controversial and unpopular with this crowd.
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I never liked the Three Stooges.
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I know you didn’t ask me, but I prefer the horror sequel, Fear Evan Hanson.
Or the special adult interest version, Dear Evan Handsome.
Or the sequel, Queer Evan Handsome. ;D
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Craig is arriving soon for a visit.
Nice! Have a good time!
Thanks.
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In a spurt of decluttering mania, I threw out almost everything on the patio.
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I never liked the Three Stooges.
LOL, I already said that ;)
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In a spurt of decluttering mania, I threw out almost everything on the patio.
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John, congrats on getting Wordle in four yesterday.
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Just saw this loverly review of Vegas Can Be Murder from Robert Yacko - he really loved this one. He's getting ready to do an audio book on Preview Harvey and if that one comes out well, maybe we'll do the Harry Stearns trio but only IF I find a Bernice to do that part.
5.0 out of 5 stars Showgirls, Lounge Acts & Murder on the Menu
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2025
Harry Stearns, retired Hollywood agent turned retired private detective, begrudgingly returns for another case. It’s the mid-70’s and Vegas is calling, against his better judgement. Even worse, it’s the Vegas of lounge singers and decade old jokes, though the posh parts of Sin City are ever-present.
Of course, when Harry is here, so is Dr. Pepper, Black Jack gum, lots of yummy meals (especially at the Hamlet), and wonderful music, from Mozart to Sondheim to Liberace to “I Talk to the Trees”. He’s a man who loves his Bernaise and tolerates his Bernice – the latter, of course, being his sassy secretary, as set in her ways as Harry is. Along with the ins and outs of solving the looming mystery, it’s the crackle of the Harry and Bernice relationship banter that is the engine that drives this intriguing train. I’d call it older Tracy & Hepburn meets Fred and Ethel Mertz, and when Bernice is there for the ride-along, it is even more charming.
I found the story addictive, a page-turner from the get-go, and as much fun to try and solve as it was to take the ride with Harry and company. So put the top down and take a drive to the desert with this curmudgeonly master-sleuth, and don’t worry about your hair. It’ll be another unique, wonderful adventure, and maybe you’ll solve this before someone gets the… (no spoilers here). Riveting and delicious!
Wonderful!
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A lot of empty pots that I don't remember ever buying. I quit trying to plant things in the pots, because the raccoons root around in the pots to see what's there.
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From last night, thanks George.
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elmore, I had the same age issue on the very first Adriana Hofstetter book. I hadn't, at the time, thought it would be for young adult readers, and that book certainly isn't due to murderer and the reason for it and the murderer's monologue of why they did it. Soon thereafter, when I realized that young people really liked the character, I regretted not the plot or the murder, but the monologue, which is fairly explicit. After that, I made the age range 12 and up and was careful with all the other books in that series.
Vibes that there will also be several more books in elmore's book series!
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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Jane and I are unpopular today.
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DR George, I hope you are very pleased with your new phone.
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Craig is arriving soon for a visit.
Have a great time, Jane!
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In a spurt of decluttering mania, I threw out almost everything on the patio.
Oh, my! :o
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From DR George:
The listing for the phone does say that it can hold two sim cards, so if you need another line but not another phone, you can have two in one.
I didn't know that was an option. It makes sense that it is one.
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From last night, thanks George.
You're welcome, Jane.
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If you needed a personal phone and a work phone, having two lines in one phone would be easier.
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DR George, I hope you are very pleased with your new phone.
So do I. I already don't love the camera, but the extra internal memory was more important.
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From George:
One really annoying thing about the new phone is the short music that plays when it's turned on and off...it's really LOUD! :P
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I'm sorry you can't silence that.
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If you needed a personal phone and a work phone, having two lines in one phone would be easier.
That could be an option, too.
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FOUR!!
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From George:
One really annoying thing about the new phone is the short music that plays when it's turned on and off...it's really LOUD! :P
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I'm sorry you can't silence that.
So far, I haven't found that it's an option. :P
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FOUR!
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/four-cats-sitting-wall-overlooking-charming-street-scene-356813665.jpg)
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George is there a quick silence option instead of turning the phone off?
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From George:
One really annoying thing about the new phone is the short music that plays when it's turned on and off...it's really LOUD! :P
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I'm sorry you can't silence that.
So far, I haven't found that it's an option. :P
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Jane and I are unpopular today.
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I know you didn’t ask me, but I prefer the horror sequel, Fear Evan Hanson.
Or the special adult interest version, Dear Evan Handsome.
Or the sequel, Queer Evan Handsome. ;D
:) Great marketing ploy!
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George is there a quick silence option instead of turning the phone off?
Yes. I can turn down the volume for everything, but just not when it's actually powering on or off.
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I may not remember when I became aware of The Three Stooges. I do however recall when I realized how popular they were.
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I'm guessing I was around nine. Walking with a friend to the bus after school I saw a gang of kids running to a car. When I wondered what was happening my friend said that Michael's grandfather was picking him up from school.
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I was still confused and my friend explained to me that it was Moe.
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I was still confused as to why the were all rushing to see him ;D
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Wonderful memory, Jane! Thanks for sharing it.
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TOD: I'll join DRs Jane and Laura in the "not a Three Stooges fan" club.
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Thanks to the folks who posted about the Peter Foley album. I've been enjoying listening to it.
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But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?
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They've even edited out or changed the character names in the booklet. Some of the characters are pretty obvious - it's easy to find what this was called before on Google - but some are less clear. If anybody attended or otherwise has a list of songs and characters, I'd be curious to see that.
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Wonderful memory, Jane! Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you.
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TOD: I'll join DRs Jane and Laura in the "not a Three Stooges fan" club.
:)
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Keith also got Wordle in four.
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Keith also got Wordle in four.
Good for Keith!
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But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?
Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle?
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Well, Amazon, not the brightest bulb in the lamp, has changed the reading age from 11-18 to 16-18. I think it should be 18+ but as long as the age 11 is out, I'm happy.
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Have a fun visit DR JANE.
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Keith also got Wordle in four.
Good for Keith!
Thanks.
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Have a fun visit DR JANE.
Thank you.
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We just finished watching the fourth and final episode of ADOLESCENCE, the British Netflix murder drama dealing with the horrors of social media especially for teenagers. So many Emmy nominations, and well deserved.
Hoping the writers change their minds about not exploring what happened in the life of the family after the four episodes, but they seem resolved not to continue it, to let the success be what it is. They've said that season 2 will be a completely different story and set of characters.
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This was linked by Jane Klain on castrecl: the official trailer for the movie BLUE MOON, mainly based on Lorenz Hart on the night OKLAHOMA! opened. Ethan Hawke plays Lorenz Hart, Andrew Scott plays Richard Rodgers.
"BLUE MOON Official Trailer (2025)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7gRHip0lI
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Page Five!
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Well, this has been quite the week with three (3) books happening on HHW.
BK's is here now, on Kindle.
DR Elmore's on Kindle will be released on Aug. 4.
DR John G., what's the ETA on yours?
THe fall. Don't know exactly when.
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So, one of the two people who were supposed to take the bar exam in my room didn't show up today. So, it was two proctors in a room of one tester.
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I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.
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I used my time wisely. I read all of "To Broadway, to Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick."
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Three volumes of Lost in Boston, one volume of Unsung Musicals and the Prime Time Musicals CD are all mentioned.
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The only semi-mistake I noticed is that the writer attributes New Girl in Town to Robert Merrill, which leads me to think of the opera singer, not Bob Merrill the lyricist.
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I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.
That's really interesting about the proctor to test taker ratio.
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But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?
Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle?
Yes, although you don't see those names anywhere in the release.
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But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?
Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle?
Such magnificent material in that show!
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I have a great Lerner & Loewe RCA Living Stereo two-record set with Robert Merrill
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But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?
Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle?
Yes, although you don't see those names anywhere in the release.
I think it's not unusual to have agreed in the rights contract with the owner of the novel, for the composer-lyricist to retain the rights to use their songs, even after the rights to do the musical stage version had lapsed.
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I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.
That is rather shocking.
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I wonder how it worked with the rights of the adaptors (speaking of Bob Merrill) who created SUGAR, the musical based on SOME LIKE IT HOT - that allowed the recent Broadway musical SOME LIKE IT HOT to happen.
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Had pasta with butter, meat, and the tiny bit of parmesan I had left.
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It was tasty.
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Took pill two.
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Otherwise, just catching up on stuff and relaxing. This day has flown by.
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TOD:
I always liked Shemp best. I was not a fan of Curly Joe.
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I wish I lived in Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts there is having a Kurosawa film fest throughout August.
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Facebook wants me to add Jason Alexander as my friend.
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Had pasta with butter, meat, and the tiny bit of parmesan I had left.
That sounds good! What kind of meat?
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Good evening!
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Congrats on your. book listing, DR elmore!
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But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?
Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle?
Yes, although you don't see those names anywhere in the release.
I think it's not unusual to have agreed in the rights contract with the owner of the novel, for the composer-lyricist to retain the rights to use their songs, even after the rights to do the musical stage version had lapsed.
I know nothing about licensing novels, movies etc. for stage musicals. So rights lapsing is a new concept to me. I mean, we have that in music tech all the time, where the license for musical works is for a few years. But to create a musical and do all that creative work based on a time limit for the rights? I wouldn’t have thought of that. Thanks for guiding me through my naïveté about this.
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Good, DR George! And Keith! I got it in 4 too.
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I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.
Very strange. :-\
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Good, DR George! And Keith! I got it in 4 too.
Great minds think alike, I guess. ;)
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I used my time wisely. I read all of "To Broadway, to Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick."
I drove my friend Shelly to an appointment just south of Tacoma, and I started reading BK's new book while waiting. It's very good!
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Schmidt and Jones wrote a lovely score for Grover’s Corners, a musical version of Our Town. Kander and Ebb musicalized The Skin of Our Teeth. Both based on Wilder plays. Both had the rights yanked from them.
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Three volumes of Lost in Boston, one volume of Unsung Musicals and the Prime Time Musicals CD are all mentioned.
Very cool!
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Oh, look! It's Page Six!! :D
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I used my time wisely. I read all of "To Broadway, to Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick."
I drove my friend Shelly to an appointment just south of Tacoma, and I started reading BK's new book while waiting. It's very good!
Ain’t that the truth.
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The mosquitoes outside are making me more miserable than the heat.
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I know nothing about licensing novels, movies etc. for stage musicals. So rights lapsing is a new concept to me. I mean, we have that in music tech all the time, where the license for musical works is for a few years. But to create a musical and do all that creative work based on a time limit for the rights? I wouldn’t have thought of that.
I don't know the specifics in the case of this show, of course.
But musical theater people (maybe producers, maybe writers, maybe anyone) might, for example, be purchasing the exclusive stage rights for a certain option period, depending on how interested the property owner is in having a musical made of his or her property by these particular theater people. Maybe as an example $5,000 for the first 18 months, then another $5,000 for an additional 18 months, then maybe another $5,000 for an additional 12 months, and on as extensions to the contract are executed.
At SOME point, to describe the "merger" concept simply - usually based on reaching a specified number of certain types of performances, the rights would "merge" so that the musical may from then on be "exploited" forever, and usually the original rights holder gets a percentage of the royalties from the writing. (A normal split might be 25% music, 25% lyrics, 25% book, and 25% original underlying rights holder).
If the rights don't "merge" before the end of the option period, as extended, the rights would "lapse."
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Schmidt and Jones wrote a lovely score for Grover’s Corners, a musical version of Our Town. Kander and Ebb musicalized The Skin of Our Teeth. Both based on Wilder plays. Both had the rights yanked from them.
How rude! >:(
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Is there often a threshold to keep them indefinitely, like a Broadway run of xxx performances? I can see a rights holder yanking from someone in hopes of a more successful adaptation. But might the Sondheim estate have to worry about Buñuel’s estate yanking rights for Here We Are, which is only Off-Broadway so far?
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Thanks DR Freddie. That makes sense and answers my questions. Learn something new every day at HHW!
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Is there often a threshold to keep them indefinitely, like a Broadway run of xxx performances? I can see a rights holder yanking from someone in hopes of a more successful adaptation.
Depends on what's agreed on at the time the rights contract is executed.
But once "merger" has happened, the rights can't be yanked any more.
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The Thin Man and The Ex-Mrs. Bradford both end in a dinner party in which the murderer is revealed. Black Bag uses the same device, and it still works.
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I hate Cate Blanchett’s hair in this movie, but, dang, can she ever deliver a line. When she says, “Don’t ever f—- with my marriage again,” you believe it.
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5:15 comes early.
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Must get to bed.
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Good night, all.
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I haven't had my rights yanked in many a year.
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Meat was ground beef.
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Had some cantaloupe and biscotti for evening snack and pill three has been taken.
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Watched a bottom half of the bill movie.
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I haven't had my rights yanked in many a year.
Ditto...nor my lefts. ;)
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I've read 40% of BK's book. :)
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I plan to read the rest of the book soonly.
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Tomorrow, I'm going to my mom's to help with some things to get get her house ready for my cousin John and his wife Angel's visit on Thursday.
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Hopefully, they actually show up. ::)
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There have been a few times (enough to be hesitant with any deep cleaning) when they said they'd visit and then call the day that they were supposed to leave saying that they weren't coming. :-\
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They're otherwise great people.
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They live in Coquille, Oregon, and it's about a seven hour drive, but at least they don't have to fly and lose any of that money.
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Glad George will finish the book soonly and I do hope he'll do a review soonly, too, as that would be most helpfully helpful.
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Stuck on page six again.
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Not very sporting.
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Ridic.
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And yet, here we are.
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And HERE we are.
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Now, get me off this damn page.
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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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I'm not kidding.
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I rarely kid.
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Even when I was a kid.