Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on August 15, 2025, 12:11:10 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've read two lovely reviews, and now it is time for you to post until the two lovely cows come home. They've been on their honeyMOOn.
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And the word of the day is: CHERISH!
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Good morning.
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I hear rain!
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Rodzinski, congratulations on having reached a wonderful, almost-round new millstone on last night's posts!
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Hoping George's show went well yesterday!
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I hear rain!
Hooray for rain in your area, Laura!
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Loved reading both of the reviews of "Richard and Me" that are in the notes.
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Good morning, all!
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I vaguely remember Commando Cody. I just checked the series out on IMDB, and I was surprised to learn that George Wallace had replaced John Raitt in The Pajama Game and starred opposite Gwen Verdon in New Girl in Town.
I saw him and his wife in the national tour of Company in Hershey, PA, in spring 1972. I believe.
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Those are good reviews, BK!
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Rodzinski, thank you for that Elliot Lawrence link in last night's posts. I'd never heard that before. Very fine music there!
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I've had a couple of days where I was busier than my decrepit body could stand. Today, I'm taking it easier. I have to email Joshie about creating a score template for me for the new ballet, and I have a telephonic meeting with Doug Fullington about the new ballet and registering Star on the Rise and the orchestral suite with ASCAP.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Congratulations to DR Rodzinski on your lofty new perch in the HHW firmament!!!
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BK, when do you start getting screeners for your new nominating gig?
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It's interesting in trying to decide which of my schools I should send the new book, that there's no real logic to which books the schools choose to include in their libraries. I'd have thought Brooklyn College would be MORE interested in taking publications than Harvard, but Brooklyn College has included only the 21st century Oldies, volume 2: Climate and Global Warning, in their Humor collection.
But Harvard must have more money to store alumni books, since they also include the Last Starfighter musical (both versions, all-ages and age 12 and up) and even has something that I wrote to the New York Times in 1997.
In Harvard Library search under my name:
Item 1 - 21st Century Oldies, volume 1 from 2013
Item 2 and 3 - The two YouthPLAYS publications of The Last Starfighter musical
Then at item 9, they have a letter to the editor from 1997 in the New York Times on "Broadway tickets." That's so long ago; I wonder if I sent it in, or they keep active searches for what alumni do.
https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=creator,exact,Landau,%20Fred,AND&tab=everything&search_scope=everything&vid=HVD2&facet=creator,exact,Landau,%20Fred&lang=en_US&mode=advanced&offset=0
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Good morning, all.
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I am tired.
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Notes pirated. Absconded.
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I want to read your article on the Ski Slope Vegetation of Lee Canyon, Nevada, Fred!
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I wish I was near LA, I’d come assemble those stools in about a half hour.
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Places won’t assemble things where I live (although they will say they will, not realizing the remote strangeness of my location), so I had to get good at that.
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I want to read your article on the Ski Slope Vegetation of Lee Canyon, Nevada, Fred!
There's a Fred Landau in the Las Vegas area - who knew? (I guess I knew, since when I google myself, his stuff also comes up.)
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Good morning, all.
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Feels like a Saturday here.
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For various and sundry reasons.
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I have nothing for the TOD as of yet, but I have a few ideas I might explore later today.
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The ever-popular Bridgewater Country Fair opens this afternoon and runs through Sunday. I wonder if DR singdaw or anyone else in CT ever partook of that. Back around 20 years ago we used to work it for a while, helping to take tickets or sell foodstuffs, and then the rest of the day and evening we'd party it up. Great fun then, but who has the energy for such hijinx now? I think we're going over for a few hours sometime tomorrow.
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Oddly, I feel as if I once attended the Bridgewater Country Fair once. I have a memory of watching pig races.
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Page twain!
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DR ChasSmith, I used to love the Butler county fair; I only attended the Ohio state fair once, around 1971, and I loved every minute of it.
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I am completely inept at setting up a computer, TV, or sound system. As to assembling a cat tree, a table, or anything involving screws, nails, wrenches, pliers, or hammers, bring in the professionals.
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I hear rain!
Yay.
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DR Elmore, we attended the Ohio State Fair a few times during my early childhood there in the 1950s. That was a very special thing for us.
DR Rodzinski, yes to the pig races, oxen pulls, and chainsawing competitions!
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Congratulations to DR Rodzinski on your lofty new perch in the HHW firmament!!!
DITTO!
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DR George, I was concerned you wouldn't get Wordle done in time and was glad to see you did it.
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Rodzinski - My Manfred Mann fascination relates to their track of the song "Hollywood Town" on their Angel Station album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyEVmEvy5o&list=RD9IyEVmEvy5o&start_radio=1
which developed into my parody series "Hollywood Gown" - which the songwriter Harriet Schock was very supportive of my doing, even mentioned the parody series when she did interviews - and we did them for over a decade mainly about the Oscars gowns, sometimes the Emmys outfits or Grammys outfits.
"Hollywood Gown" (This was the short one-minute version; it was the Oscars year where the gown showcasing Angelina Jolie's leg was huge in the next-day chatting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMe-0U24tw4
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We were taken to a county fair once somewhere south of Columbus. I'm looking at a map and thinking that was maybe around Washington Court House, but no way to know. Other than these few, I haven't been to all that many fairs. Never went to the L.A. County one, and in all of these years I've never been to "The Big E" of New England.
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I am completely inept at setting up a computer, TV, or sound system. As to assembling a cat tree, a table, or anything involving screws, nails, wrenches, pliers, or hammers, bring in the professionals.
I got married quite young, so I've always had a man here to do those things for me. I can't put anything together. I admire women who can do things.
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Keith and I aren't good at putting stuff together. He has learned over the years and is now much better at it. Still, he does not like doing it.
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Keith got Wordle in five today.
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Harriet’s “Hollywood Town” LP is a great one with her version of “That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady” better than the cover.
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Harriet’s “Hollywood Town” LP is a great one with her version of “That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady” better than the cover.
Do you know Harriet?
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Rodzinski - This is an interview where Harriet Schock mentioned the parody.
https://thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2020/03/31/hotline-to-the-underground-march-30-2020-an-interview-with-harriet-schock-by-joe-viglione/
"I was inspired to write “Hollywood Town” for them. It became the title song of my first album. Manfred Mann covered it and it also was used in a well-known parody called “The Hollywood Gown” by Fred Landau featuring the gowns of the Oscars and Tonys. So that song has had a life and I suppose Tom decided it was a natural to call the film “Hollywood Town – The Harriet Schock Story.” Yes, my story may have started in Dallas Texas, but my career started in Hollywood."
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Friday.
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Congrats to DR RODZINSKI on his millstone.
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I enjoyed the photos in the notes and look forward to others.
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I didn't know that was Commando Cody on the New Girl In Town cast LP. Wow! Now I want to listen to it again.
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Jrand, I sent you a PM.
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DR Rodzinski, I like that Toys R Us is still a fun place for children.
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Got it DR FREDDIE. Thanks. I shall be on the lookout.
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Last night I watched Bon Voyage - which was a bit more tedious than I remembered it to be.
But it was fun. Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran are always fun to watch. And Deborah Walley and Michael Callan (who also played a couple in Gidget Goes Hawaiian) were nice to look at.
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That's one of those Disney films I remember being very fond of as a kid, probably went to it a couple of times, but I haven't seen it since. I believe I have a DVD here.
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Moon Pilot was another, and I wonder how it would play for me now.
Well, I have that, too, so maybe we'll find out.
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That had a chimp, right? The only other thing I can recall is that I liked the song at the end.
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Yes there was a chimp in Moon Pilot....which I haven't seen since.
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DRJANE found a dog friend at the Pfister Hotel.
(https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/532234899_10235470315245966_2928046140472422477_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpegr_tt6&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=2Wxv2MOs1pUQ7kNvwFimiBo&_nc_oc=Admi_TmCJQACSljCPld2nnTz5xhADm72Mj9l5g1gh-3PQ8m22S8TmZyfbdyOtMxZYUG8eNGXiMWAaS_2tv8xZwqr&_nc_zt=23&se=-1&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&_nc_gid=mmseXUFgeTvjIxfRRnIoYQ&oh=00_AfXdmKP3FgJmSxL_r0ZfCjBM0K3JJOgctjHrRxQkp_j4gQ&oe=68A5422B)
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I am uncertain how I feel about a Tim Burton remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman starring Margot Robbie.
No...I am not uncertain....I am horrified.
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DRJANE found a dog friend at the Pfister Hotel.
Lol, that I did. I couldn't get him to sit back up for the photo. He is a sweet, Friendly, big boy.
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THREE!
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DRJANE found a dog friend at the Pfister Hotel.
Lol, that I did. I couldn't get him to sit back up for the photo. He is a sweet, Friendly, big boy.
But it's still a really nice photo!
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Last night's film, La belle saison (Summertime), was a real winner. Literally, in that it won the vote for the class's favorite film of the term. Apparently it won the vote in a couple of previous classes where he showed it, so it's popular among Mick LaSalle's demographic. It was my second-favorite and my wife's favorite.
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Next term's class is "Built to Last: What Great Films Have in Common." I'll be taking that one too. But after that, the next two terms will apparently be online, which I have no interest in. I've had enough Zoom for entertainment to last the rest of my life. It's still great for meetings that I can't attend in person.
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But after that, the next two terms will apparently be online, which I have no interest in.
That's too bad.
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What was your favorite, MichaelG?
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I shall be interested to read the results of the vote in DR MICHAEL G's class.
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DR CHAS SMITH I don't have the DVD of Moon Pilot, perhaps I should look on EBAY.
I certainly have ALL of the Hayley Mills Disney films and the tin box collections including The Hardy Boys and Annette The Serial.....
I love The Parent Trap....but my FAVORITE is Summer Magic!
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of non-consecutive sleep.
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DR CHAS SMITH I don't have the DVD of Moon Pilot, perhaps I should look on EBAY.
I certainly have ALL of the Hayley Mills Disney films and the tin box collections including The Hardy Boys and Annette The Serial.....
I love The Parent Trap....but my FAVORITE is Summer Magic!
I don't think I even know Summer Magic! Must investigate posthaste...
I have all of the tin box Walt Disney Treasures, and the four tin box True-Life Adventures.
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I did get an e-mail from the guy who's supposedly going to assemble at ten-thirty tomorrow.
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A step in the right direction.
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Where the HELL are the promised photographs from George.
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I've gotten lots of invites to screenings, but no screeners yet - hope they come soon. Also, have gotten some streaming things, so I may do some watching for those.
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Yeah, I don't know how I ever missed Summer Magic, but that I did, indeed. Amazing!
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I am shocked SHOCKED (insert Claude Rains voice over here) that you have never seen SUMMER MAGIC DR CHAS SMITH.
Please correct that at once.
Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Eddie Hodges, Peter Brown, Jimmy Mathers. What's not to like?
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It's the pink of perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kUJ0a0sFXg
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She's not knock kneed, Nancy!
Jimmy's line when the cousin shows up!
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What was your favorite, MichaelG?
My favorite was Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. I think that came in 4th.
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I shall be interested to read the results of the vote in DR MICHAEL G's class.
La belle saison won, Les diaboliques was second, and La balance was third.
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I did get an e-mail from the guy who's supposedly going to assemble at ten-thirty tomorrow.
Good news!
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Good evening!
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Thanks for the Wordle words yesterday, DR Jane
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Today's Wordle: 3/6.
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Congrats on all the great reviews, BK!
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Looks like you're having a nice time, DR Jane!
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The ever-popular Bridgewater Country Fair opens this afternoon
Can't say I ever attended, sad to say. Sounds like fun!
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Keith and I aren't good at putting stuff together. He has learned over the years and is now much better at it. Still, he does not like doing it.
It doesn't ever help that the directions are either in a foreign language or are undecipherable hieroglyphics.
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My Fred Landau Collection is complete!
(not shown: The Last Starfighter)
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:)
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PAGE FOUR
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This is what the Mighty Mississippi looks like in my neck of the woods.
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That's the Minneapolis skyline on the horizon.
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Have I stayed too long at the fair?
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Have I been chased by a bear?
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Has someone tangled my flaxen hair?
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Do I have a care?
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Do I need some air?
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Have I been dragged to a lair?
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Is it a sordid affair?
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Shall I eat an eclair?
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Do I do it on a dare?
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Be careful of someone trying to ensnare.
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Attempt to repair.
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They have a certain flair.
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But in the dark, you need a flare.
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It's nice to share.
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And it's nice to care.
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That's enough of that.
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DR George must still be recuperating.
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My Fred Landau Collection is complete!
(not shown: The Last Starfighter)
Thank you so much, singdaw!!!
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This is what the Mighty Mississippi looks like in my neck of the woods.
Is that the view from your home?
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But in the dark, you need a flare.
Would Sondheim have approved of using both flare and flair?
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That's enough of that.
Well, no one can say you didn't get us through most of page 4!
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What was your favorite, MichaelG?
My favorite was Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. I think that came in 4th.
I’d agree with you of those. I haven’t seen the top film. But I think Charm is better than 2 and 3.
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But in the dark, you need a flare.
Would Sondheim have approved of using both flare and flair?
They’re their.
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I loved Highest 2 Lowest. And I wanted to come home and watch Kurosawa’s original, High and Low. But I discovered I don’t own it. It’s on reserve now at the library.
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Spike’s version opens with a glorious version of O, What a Beautiful Mornin’ sung by Norm Lewis.
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And a very sad farewell to Eddie Palmieri, who died this week. He and his salsa band offer a great moment while the ransom is being paid.
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Five!
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But in the dark, you need a flare.
Would Sondheim have approved of using both flare and flair?
They’re their.
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What was your favorite, MichaelG?
My favorite was Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. I think that came in 4th.
I’d agree with you of those. I haven’t seen the top film. But I think Charm is better than 2 and 3.
See it! According to JustWatch it's available under its English title Summertime on Kanopy for free, and Apple / Amazon for rental. This is Catherine Corsini's film, not others with the same name. Now I need to go see Highest 2 Lowest.
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What was your favorite, MichaelG?
My favorite was Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. I think that came in 4th.
I’d agree with you of those. I haven’t seen the top film. But I think Charm is better than 2 and 3.
See it! According to JustWatch it's available under its English title Summertime on Kanopy for free, and Apple / Amazon for rental. This is Catherine Corsini's film, not others with the same name. Now I need to go see Highest 2 Lowest.
I will watch it on kanopy. Thanks.
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I had penne in pink sauce from Maria's Kitchen for food.
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Worked on the manuscript - I think she got impatient in the last three chapters - I just had to stop correcting and move along. I can finish tonight.
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Dozed off for over two hours.
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Found a couple of movies to watch.
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Unless I'm misreading, looks like books have shipped - fastest turnaround ever.
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BK, are you one away from a record-setting Millstone?
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DRJANE found a dog friend at the Pfister Hotel.
Lol, that I did. I couldn't get him to sit back up for the photo. He is a sweet, Friendly, big boy.
But it's still a really nice photo!
Thank you.
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Today's Wordle: 3/6.
Excellent!
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Thanks for the Wordle words yesterday, DR Jane
You are welcome.
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Looks like you're having a nice time, DR Jane!
I did. Today was our last day.
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I had a bit of a nap today watching Bad Boys 2. We were at a movie theater with reclining seats and trays, where you order the food and it is delivered to you.
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Keith and I aren't good at putting stuff together. He has learned over the years and is now much better at it. Still, he does not like doing it.
It doesn't ever help that the directions are either in a foreign language or are undecipherable hieroglyphics.
Oh my, that is not helpful at all.
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My Fred Landau Collection is complete!
(not shown: The Last Starfighter)
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Is that the view from your home?
No, but there are views like that all around here.
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I loved the photo of you with the berner, DR Jane.
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I have always thought there was a business to be made in dog rentals. For when you want to spend a day with a dog, but don't want the full-time responsibility. Come to think of it, though, that would be hard on the dogs.
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After the movie we went to a very nice, large arcade with a bowling alley. Keith played Skee Ball with me :)
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So I guess not so great an idea.
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My Fred Landau Collection is complete!
(not shown: The Last Starfighter)
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:)
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After the games we went to a Organ Pipes Pizza Palace. Check out the organ at organpipepizza.com.
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I loved the photo of you with the berner, DR Jane.
Thank you.
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I have always thought there was a business to be made in dog rentals. For when you want to spend a day with a dog, but don't want the full-time responsibility. Come to think of it, though, that would be hard on the dogs.
If you visit Best Friends in Utah I belive there are dogs that can be "checked out" for a sleep-over.
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I wish I could share the photo of me walking the cat. Since Freyja is also in the photo I am not permitted to make it public.
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Just finished the novel Go As a River, by Shelley Read. It was enjoyable, if not especially original.
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But could it be cropped, DR Jane? 8)
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It was cute though, Keith started to take my photo with the cat and Freyja rushed over to be in it with me :)
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After the games we went to a Organ Pipes Pizza Palace. Check out the organ at organpipepizza.com.
I've always wanted to visit this, or a place like it.
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PAGE SIX!
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Six!
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I’ve always wanted to visit page six. And I am.
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But could it be cropped, DR Jane? 8)
I have to ask Keith.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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Her body is partially in front of me so Keith isn't sure he can crop it. He can crop us both out and just show the cat walking with the leash ;D
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'night
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After the games we went to a Organ Pipes Pizza Palace. Check out the organ at organpipepizza.com.
I've always wanted to visit this, or a place like it.
I figured you would appreciate it :)
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Good night, all.
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Harriet’s “Hollywood Town” LP is a great one with her version of “That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady” better than the cover.
Do you know Harriet?
Only via her records.
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Thank you all for congratulations. I posted as many posts as I have by standing on all of your great shoulders.
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Apologies for the footprints on your shoulders, by the way.
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Well, may as well do it.
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Naturally, George is nowhere to be found to capture it. Didn't he promise some photographs from his adventure??? It cannot possibly take this long to return to Tumwater.
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Watched a very good motion picture from 2025. Probably no one will see it, like most of the new films I like.
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Listening to the soundtrack to the movie I just watched - on Spotify.
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Baffled.
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Confused.
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Page six?
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Crazy.
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Odd.
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Weird.
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Strange.
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Hoping George's show went well yesterday!
Thanks, Freddie! It went very well!
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Wordle 1,518 4/6
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It was a long day, but we got everything done and the show was very well received.
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This was our final rehearsal on Wednesday night:
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We held the last few rehearsals at TAO's president's house.
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And this is where we actually performed:
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PAGE SEVEN THE HEAD!!! THAT WOULDN'T DIE! DANCE!!
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How about The Page that Wouldn't Die?
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This is where I was sitting:
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How about THAT?
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At least George has returned.
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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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The big screen in the middle was where our projections played on...it was one HUGE TV!
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The two side screens were showing what was being streamed with auto-generated subtitles.
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I'd heard that we're supposed to get copies of the raw video, so hopefully that is true, then we can assemble our own complete video, but without the auto-generated subtitles...those didn't always work. ::)
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Please continue in the new topic.