Haines His Way

Film Set Fly on the Wall:  "All About Eve" or "Valley of the Dolls"

Rehearsal Hall Fly on the Wall:  I think one of those shows that was somehow turned around out of town, so take your pick:  DOLLY, FIDDLER, MY ONE & ONLY, SEESAW, FORUM (though Forum has never been a fave...)

DR Hisaka,
I keep meaning to ask you if you ever were, or are currently, a fan of Godzilla films?

And who are some of your favorite Japanese actors and actresses, both past and present?

I have been a fan of Japanese films since I was a kid...Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Momoko Kochi, Akira Kubo, and Yumi Shirakawa are a few of my favorites!

Last night, there were some comments from DR Ron Pulliam and others about Rob Morrow. Let me state an opinion.

First, I never watched NORTHERN EXPOSURE much, maybe one or two episodes during its entire run, so I had no feelings one way or other about the actor.

I thought he was simply wonderful in MOTHER as Albert Brooks' younger brother.

DR Ron was absolutely right about his dour presence in last night's NUMBERS. He didn't crack a smile throughout the entire episode, but then I think of another FBI agent, Anthony LaPaglia in WITHOUT A TRACE, and I realized that he was no more dour than Anthony in his series.

I'm curious to see if any changes in characterization or plotting will occur from the filming of the pilot to the actual series getting underway. Should make for an interesting second episode.

I, too, would have picked either FOLLIES or A CHORUS LINE (the tape sessions), but since they've been taken already, I'll pick CAMELOT which underwent its own hellacious tryout period.

Re:  Today's Notes:  Well, BK, you have hit the synchronicity nail on the head again (no mean feat).  When BK and I were getting to know each other many moons ago, I emailed him about a song on an obscure 1968 album by a Mamas & Papas-esque group called The Collage.  The song is called Driftin' and it was written by a B. Kimmel, so I thought it might be our own BK (it turned out to be Bobby Kimmel of the Stone Ponys).  In what I still consider a classic line, BK emailed me back "I would never write a song with a missing 'g' on the end."  The hilarious thing is this Collage album has 3 (count 'em, 3) songs with missing "g"'s on the end:  Driftin', Lookin' at a Baby, and She's Just Laughin' at Me.  Where or where have all the "g"'s gone?  Anyway, they do another song on that album called Any Day's a Sunday Afternoon, that has this prescient chorus:

It's a Monday afternoon on Friday
Thursday afternoon on Wednesday
Monday morning, Friday evening
Any day's a Sunday afternoon

Re:  Jan Akkerman.  BK, I mentioned this the last time you brought up Jan, but if you don't have it already, get his Atlantic album (out on import CD), S/T, that has the great picture of him in bed with the guitar turning into a woman (freaky cover, but great music).  You'll love it, I guarantee.  (Do you have the Toots Thielesmans album that originally came out on the same label as the Akkerman/Ogerman one, that also has Ogerman orchestrations?  He does a magnificent version of Percy's Maybe September on that one).

Movie Set:  Well, this is no surprise, but I would choose Come and Get It, probably on the day William Wyler took over for Howard Hawks.  I just got an incredible candid of Wyler screaming at Frances on-set.  She is sitting there with her head turned in an "I'm not listening to you" pose that is absolutely hysterical.

TOD - movie - perhaps A PLACE IN THE SUN. That's one. There are many others. More later, perhaps.
Stage - back at the Globe in the days of Shakespeare - any one of the plays
More "modern" - I'd like to have seen Tennessee Williams up close and personal at work - not to mention Kazan - so maybe STREETCAR (the young Brando would be a bonus with that one).
PRIVATE LIVES with Noel Coward and Gerturde Lawrence. The dialogue in the dressing rooms would have been as sparkling (and raunchier) as on the stage.
Musical - CAMELOT would have been fun - and DRAMATIC!

I think I'd have loved being at the San Francisco theater where Mankiewicz first gathered his dream cast together for "All About Eve".

Ha-cha!

What if there were no theoretical questions?

Yes, mending vibes to DR Ann.

Could we declare a moratorium on the word "interesting"...?
(That's a rhetorical question.) I've edited myself twice this morning when I started to use it, replacing with the vacuous word "fun" - as in "That would have been fun."

Hmmmm...i n t e r e s t i n g....but.....restrictive.

I'm glad to hear DR ann is doing better.  More get well vibes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Does anyone know if there's a way on Google Groups to disguise your email so that you don't get spam?  All I've been able to do is create a nickname, but it still is keeping my email address.  I friggin' (missing g) HATE AOL!!!!

Well...hmmmm MBARNUM has covered GUNSLINGER and JMK has covered COME AND GET IT.  So:

Movie set:  YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE to see Eva and Suzanne and James

TV set:  I Love Lucy - "Lucy Learns to Drive" or "Ricky Needs an Agent"

Broadway Musical: THE PAJAMA GAME to see Fosse work out "Steam Heat" and "Once a Year Day" and hear those songs over and over!

Broadway Play:  GOLDEN BOY -original Group Theatre cast

Is this a slow news day at haineshisway.com?

I overslept - I woke up at eight-thirty, but just put my head back on the pillow, and the next thing I knew it was ten.

And one for Mahler.