Haines His Way

A heart?  A dozen roses?  A single rose?  The key to someones heart?

Hummmm.   I'll have to think about it.  It WON'T be a box of chocolates!  

Interesting how threads come together. I just finished Judy Holliday's biography (sent to me by a friend who I hope is back in the saddle and will no doubt comment on that very expression).

On Kim Novak (with whom JH starred in Phfft!):
Holliday, Lemmon, and Novak attended an automobile show ... All three posed with some of the automobile people, and then the photographers started shouting for some solo shots of Novak, who was nearly bursting out of a low-cut black taffeta dress [a sort of LiB reference]. She was also carrying a small black purse, which, without a murmur of apology, she thrust into Judy's hands as she walked off to join the photographers. Holliday was flabbergasted. A Columbia producer standing next to her chuckled and then whispered, "they sure learn fast in this town!" ... After a pause, Judy snapped back: "They grow them on the back lot - where the cabbage patch used to be."

On Dean Martin (and I agree that his laidback performance was right on the money) and the filming of Bells Are Ringing:
"Dean Martin ... remained good-natured though he let it be known that he thought the role of Jeff Moss was a waste of his time and talent."

And on Dream Girl (Judy Holliday starred in a limited run of the play):
"Holliday told an interviewer that she had always longed to play [the role]. Judy found something of herself in Georgina, and later she would be attracted to roles that were variations of Rice's dream heroine, most notably ... Ella Peterson in Bells Are Ringing. She liked characters ... who struggled to live their lives as responsibly and creatively as possible."

Oh - and funny parodies in the Notes! I laughed and laughed!  
(The illustration is of laughed AND laughed. I'm a very literal person.)

Too twisted for color tv!

DR WEL I am looking at your quote.....you knew of course that when Deborah Kerr and John Kerr left the OBC of TEA AND SYMPATHY they were replaced by Joan Fontaine and Tony Perkins.  I would love to have seen them do those roles.

The one item I've been missing the last few months is my old four-poster bed frame.  It was originally my Grandfather's, and a personal treasure.  So who needs ebay, when I've already got what I want.

Now what I need is a good bottle of glue.  The top knob on one of the posts of the footboard has snapped off, and needs to be put back to where it belongs.  At least der Brucer's son in law had enough sense to pocket it and return it.  (Now if he only had had enough sense from the start to take more care of how he was loading and unloading the truck.  Grrrr.)

JRAND - I too would have loved to see the replacement cast of TEA & SYMPATHY except that with Mr. Perkins in the role the whole plot premise of "Is he gay or isn't he?" would have lost its meaning, as it was so obvious.

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~~Many Good (belated) Vibes to TD and his father!~~~~~~[/move]

And in my CD player (it arrived in my mailbox yesterday and I didn't get it until late):

written by our very own Noel Katz and starring our very own Noel Katz and our very own Joy Dewing (Katz)!!!  I've only listened to about half of it (the first half) and it's great!  I have to go to work today and will listen to the rest of it.  Thanks!  (In case anyone didn't know, you can get your very own copy at www.weddingmusical.com.)  I highly recommend it!  

And (finally), today is Charles Dickens' birthday.  If he were still alive, he'd be 192 years old!    Just had to share.

And Woody, six more posts and you become a HainesHisWay GOD!!!!!!!!

Star Trek story as promised:

When I was 14, living in Toronto, and just dying to be a professional actress, I decided that the simplest thing was to make the CBC aware of my talents. Once they knew, they'd hire me and I'd become a star. Piece of cake. (Remember - I was 14. What the hell did I know of the real world of show business?)
So I looked under "Canadian Broadcasting Corporation" in the phone book, called and asked what I had to do to act in shows. The bored government operator switched me to the Casting Department. The bored receptionist at that end said, "We'll send you a form. " One of thousands filled out every month, I'm sure.
I waited eagerly for the form which would make me a star. It arrived, I filled it out. I had no headshot - didn't really know what that was - so I sent a school photo. Then I waited for them to call me. And do you know something? About a week later, they did. They asked me to come in for an audition.
Now, I had no idea at the time that this was about as close to a miracle as I was ever to see in my lifetime. I just assumed it was the way things worked.
So I went in. It so happened that they were casting for an episode of FESTIVAL, which was a fabulous weekly hour or hour and a half of top quality drama or musical programming. The best actors, musicians, directors. I'm talking Genevieve Bujold, Glenn Gould, people of that ilk.
For this original drama, THE LABYRINTH, written by Charles Israel (writer of THE MARK) they needed girls around 14 who were in a group home for disturbed kids. I read, I got cast. Just as planned,
So the rehearsals began and I was in heaven. The group home in the play (based on Warrendale, a real place) used the for then modern method of getting the kids to regress back to unhappy abusive childhoods and relive them in a happier way. One method was to take these teenage girls and offer them baby bottles while they were held and comforted by a social worker. Something they never had in childhood. There was a scene which called for just such a moment and the director said, "Girls, who thinks they can do it?" My hand shot up instantly - my moment to shine - and we rehearsed the scene. After the rehearsal, just before it was to be shot, the director said, "Anna doesn't look like she really wants that bottle. Anybody else?" I had no chance to do it again! And I was too new and young to say, "Hey, give me an opportunity to try it your way!" He just picked someone else and she was the one seen in that moment in the film. My first show business heartbreak.
Fast forward many years and I'm an adult, now a writer, in a bookstore, browsing through the Film and Theater section. Suddenly I see "The Labyrinth." I never knew a book existed of the screenplay. I open it up and it's filled with photos of the production -- including one of ME in the arms of the actor playing the social worker as I drink from the baby bottle! They must've taken the photo at the rehearsal -- and now I was forever frozen in time in a book in that moment. Vindication! And what has all this got to do with Star Trek, DR's? The actor playing the social worker, in whose arms the 14-year-old me is guzzling down a baby bottle of milk, was James Doohan, later to be immortalized as Scottie in Star Trek.

Thank you JoseSPiano.  I’m trying.

SWW we have had similar dining experience (without the food sharing) in Europe, but very few in the States.  I hope this continues to be a regular event for you.

I want my postcard from Davy Crockett back which was lost in one of our moves.  My original 45 of the song would be nice to have with it.  Early on the record was scratched & I loved the result.  It would go Davy, Davy Crockett then hiccup before continuing with king of the wild frontier.

WEL thanks for the interesting Sid Caesar story.

And from Panni, more fascinating stories into your childhood.

And (finally), today is Charles Dickens' birthday.  If he were still alive, he'd be 192 years old!    Just had to share.

So would I.

I was just looking at the calendar for March & noticed there is an option to post events.  Who can remove events?  It was nice to see Echo’s birthday is on the calendar, however, she will be loaded with birthday wishes since she is on there for nine days in a row.  On the ninth, she will be nine years old.