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[bk]

Re the Panni movie - it's always fascinating watching the trajectory of these things - I'm sure it was a good script when she wrote it and I'm sure it's the same good script now - it's just the five years where these idiotic studios don't know what they have and play these ridiculous games.  I'm glad it finally got made and am looking forward to seeing it.

[bk]

At long last - page five.

[bk]

Rather pathetic to just be getting to page five.

[Michael]

Kevin Kelly wrote in ONE SINGULAR SENSATION:

"During a similar hiatus before the marriage she [Donna McKechnie] had flown to Londond, where he [Michael Bennett] was in the midst of a fierce squabble with British Equity over the West End CHORUS LINE.

"The squabble had them headlined in the Fleet Street tabloids.  It also deepened Michael Bennett's paranoia, blackened his Malta tours.

At issue was the casting of elfin (the 41 -one year old) Elizabeth Seal, whom Bennett found unacceptable as Cassie.  Elizabeth Sael had been a hit in London in 1958 as the only female in the cast of IRMA la DOUCE, a hit she duplicated on Broadway two years later.  But she was not up to Bennett's standard.  She didn't ahve the grace or stamina for the 'Music and the Mirror' number.  She was nothing like Donna McKechnie, his 'favorite instrument.'

"Michael Bennet fired Elizabeth Seal, who suddenly emerged as both the darling of the London theater scene and an endangered species.  Bennett hired a Lithuanian dancer named Petra Siniawaski."

I guess there was a big Equity flap when Donna came over to train Petra.....this may have been covered better in other books on Bennett or ACL.

Wasn't  (I think) Jean Pierre Aumont's wife Sabine somehow connected with the Cassie flack with London Cast? Did she come before or after Donna  McKechinie.

[Ginny]

My friend and I had a delightful afternoon, lunching at Java Johnny's and then visiting the knitting fair at a nearby church.  She's an experienced knitter who visited the "Help with Problems" table after parking me at the "Learn to Knit" table.  I used to know how to knit, but had forgotten a lot.  My teacher was a longtime friend of my dear late mother-in-law.  I saw many older women with whom I've lost contact during my 11+ years of working out of town.

[Michael]

I've been watching Route 66.  I'm trying to figure out exactly when Mr. Maharis disappeared from the show.  I'd skipped to the final disc to watch the LA episodes - he does not appear in any of them.  In the first two they explain his absence in a one-sided phone call with Milner - some kind of mysterious virus.  They drop that pretense in the final two episodes and just don't mention him, although he has full billing in his usual position.

Wasn't the official word that he caught hepatitis or something like that? But I heard something more of a personal nature was the cause for his departure. (i.e. contract morality clause)

[Jane]

DR Vixter, how about Nathan Gamble?

[DERBRUCER]

WHO WOULD BE A GOOD ACTOR FOR A TEN YEAR OLD BOY!!!!(

Jaden Smith, Will's son - starred in The Pursuit of Happyness
 
Jonah Bobo - Zathura - Danny and does the voive of Austin in BACKYARDIGANS

der Brucer

[Ginny]

Vixmom, a small, but loving, congregation in Arizona is praying for you.

Also gotcha covered here in the midwest at St. Paul's Anglican in Cincinnati 

[Ginny]

I must run now since I am having my hair done  -- I want to get a decent family portrait before it all falls out

 

DR Vixmom, while your previous post brought a tear to my eye, this one made me laugh out loud!  Your sense of humor will serve you well throughout this experience.

[Michael]

Re the Panni movie - it's always fascinating watching the trajectory of these things - I'm sure it was a good script when she wrote it and I'm sure it's the same good script now - it's just the five years where these idiotic studios don't know what they have and play these ridiculous games.  I'm glad it finally got made and am looking forward to seeing it.

At least it got made. So many movies have been caught in "development hell" and despite countless script being written it never goes into production. I remember reading an article years ago about writers who made a living with the scripts in development hell and never being made. One of them if memory serves me was Robert Towne (Chinatown)

[Jennifer]

I am looking forward to watching TAR tonight!

[The Vixter]

WHO WOULD BE A GOOD ACTOR FOR A TEN YEAR OLD BOY!!!!(

Jaden Smith, Will's son - starred in The Pursuit of Happyness
 
Jonah Bobo - Zathura - Danny and does the voive of Austin in BACKYARDIGANS

der Brucer

...I love you.
*Gives you a cookie the size of Clevland...Why Cleveland? Because it sounds cool. I wanna go there someday...*

[Michael]

RE: ROUTE 66

Ethel Walter's guest appearance received an Emmy Nomination and George Maharis was nominated for Best Actor in 1962. That was all the nominations the show received,

[Jane]

Vixter, I didn't see you on-line so I sent you an email.  Did you receive it?

[DERBRUCER]

...I love you.
*Gives you a cookie the size of Clevland...Why Cleveland? Because it sounds cool. I wanna go there someday...*

Remember, at the close of the show Little Shop of Horrors, the plant eats Cleveland!

der Brucer

[The Vixter]

...I love you.
*Gives you a cookie the size of Clevland...Why Cleveland? Because it sounds cool. I wanna go there someday...*

Remember, at the close of the show Little Shop of Horrors, the plant eats Cleveland!

der Brucer

...(generic curse) Why do all the cool places get eaten.

[DERBRUCER]

Does your Doctor's Office have pharmaceutical advertising?



If the light stays on for more than 4 hours, call your electrician.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

...(generic curse) Why do all the cool places get eaten.

Well, I suspect eating Long Island would cause heartburn.
(Yonkers might be tasty!)

der Brucer

[FJL]

I don't know Catcher in the Rye, but here's Haley Joel Osment singing a duet with Tom Hulce when Haley was a very little kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ikVHFYR4o 

[DERBRUCER]

...I need to cast actors in Catcher in the Rye...

Catcher in the Rye and no stars from High School Musical or RENT?

der Brucer

[Jane]

I don't know Catcher in the Rye, but here's Haley Joel Osment singing a duet with Tom Hulce when Haley was a very little kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ikVHFYR4o 

It said this video is no longer available.  Maybe, maybe not-we currently have a very slow internet connection.

[DERBRUCER]

I don't know Catcher in the Rye, but here's Haley Joel Osment singing a duet with Tom Hulce when Haley was a very little kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ikVHFYR4o 

I wonder who wrote that silly little song?

der Brucer

[FJL]

Hmm...the link works fine here.

(It's one of the songs Skip wrote he was working on the Hunchback Part II video for Disney; it's very short, only about a minute and a half.)

[DERBRUCER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ikVHFYR4o 


It said this video is no longer available.  Maybe, maybe not-we currently have a very slow internet connection.

Try again - it works for me on dial-up.

der Brucer

[FJL]

Leaving in a few minutes to see Pal Joey.

[TCB]

Good morning all.  I'm up, enjoying some breakfast and listening to DR Jed watch football.  Toby is having his morning snooze on my arm.  It is very foggy here this morning.  We heard the fog horns going off for the ferries early this morning. 

Well, those damn horns didn't catch this ferry!

[DERBRUCER]

Hmm...the link works fine here.

(It's one of the songs Skip wrote he was working on the Hunchback Part II video for Disney; it's very short, only about a minute and a half.)

And I'm sure YouTube pays him a handsome royalty.

der Brucer

[MBarnum]

Vixter, I have also never read CATCHER IN THE RYE. But good luck on your project.

[Jane]

Our connection is improving & I got the song to open.