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[Jane]

Off to the mall to see if I can find a new suit for Friday   I think this is new suit worthy

I hope you find something that makes you feel good!

[Jane]

DR Cilla did you read your Nook copy of Les Miserable? 

[John G.]

Jane, here's another dog for the collection.

[Jane]

LOL

[Jane]

This is my niece's dog

[John G.]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

[John G.]

Now, that puppy's expression just sort of sums it all up, Jane.

[Jane]

John.   We haven't met him yet.  His name is Dragon.

[George]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

Just "ONE WEEK MORE"...exactly one week from TODAY!

[elmore3003]

I can't find my hardcopy of Les Miserables.  I'm looking to compare it to my eBook which just doesn't seem right. 
In order:
Preface
Fantine (title)
Book First-A Just Man (title)
Chapter 1-M. Myriel

It has been a LONG time since I've read this, but doesn't the book begin with Jean Valjean and not with the Bishop?

I'm sure that every different version is translated differently and edited differently.  You never know what you can end up with.

Most editions of LES MIS, like most 19th century European novels,  are either in stilted 19th century English and censored or heavily abridged. Because they are public domain, they get reprinted regularly since a lot of publishers are doing "budget" classics. The only decent complete and unabridged translation is the one  from New American Library/Signet, new translation by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee. The new Random House translation has been criticized for the translator's poor attempt to catch a contemporary vernacular and to distort the text deliberately.

Thank you. 

If this is the version you recommend, http://books.google.com/books?id=pPF0GH_8BgYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, it also begins with the Bishop & at a quick glance seems to be similar in the translation.  Maybe my memory is just off.  I can't get this one in eBook

The eBook version I have was translated by Isabel F. Hapgood & published by Thomas Y Crowell & Sons.  It is over 1200 pages, about the length of the first version I read, and what I believed to be an unabridged edition.  In high school, just about half a year after I read Les Miz our class read the, very much, abridged addition that stated it was abridged.  I find it interesting there is nothing in the book I'm reading that states it is at all abridged.

That's the one!

[elmore3003]

Isabel Hapgood was born in 1851 and died in 1928.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Florence_Hapgood

[Jane]

I'll have to decide to continue with the edition I'm reading or wait for the unabridge to become an eBook. 

[Jane]

Isabel Hapgood was born in 1851 and died in 1928.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Florence_Hapgood

Interesting.  Thank you.  Do you have any idea if you read her translation?  I wish I knew if I have.

[Jane]

Speaking of books, I just saw this on FB

[Jane]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

[George]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

He sings in that clip...and he's had a rock band for years, if I remember correctly.

[bk]

Found out why the big package hasn't arrived - the guy who was sending is from Canada and uses a guy in NY to ship his stuff.  And this guy took it upon himself to ship this big package media mail rather than the service I'd paid for - express or Priority.  So, heaven knows when it will get here.  The guy who made the decision seems to think it will be here by the weekend, but that has not been my experience with media mail ever.  It's the cheapest way to ship and therefore the USPS cares about it even less than the packages they already don't care about - bottom of the heap always, and especially at this time of year.  I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't arrive until after the first of the New Year - I hope he's right and it does arrive by Saturday - the only reason to hope is because it is insured and it does have delivery confirmation.  The seller feels terrible and is offering me several things to make up for it.  I just want the damn package, which should have been here yesterday had his person shipped the way he was supposed to.

[bk]

Cabinet thing has not arrived - seems like they'll be here at the very end of the window rather than the beginning and they really should call if that's going to be the case, because there's another small package waiting for me that I now won't be able to get.  No Fed Ex with screener today and I'm going to be mighty upset if I read on that DGA newsgroup that everyone else got theirs.

[Jane]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

He sings in that clip...and he's had a rock band for years, if I remember correctly.

He could have been dubbed which is why I asked.  I didn't get that far either, figure I would wait to see it without the subtitles

[bk]

But the best part of the afternoon was reconnecting with someone I haven't talked to in literally twenty-nine years.  She was in the ensemble in that Likely Stories episode I directed, the musical of The Elephant Man and I remember we hung out together for a bit back then - just friends.  Went to movies and dinner, but I was embroiled in that wacko relationship with the actress that I talk about in my first memoir and that was so tumultuous that I kind of blew off all my friends back then.  I remembered this gal when I had that episode of Likely Stories transferred to DVD and a mutual friend had a friend who's stayed in touch and so today I got the number and we had a splendidly splendid and fun chat for over an hour.  Amusingly, she recognized my voice immediately.  Isn't that funny?  I invited her to the Christmas Eve Do, but if she can't swing that, we'll have dinner next week.

[Jane]

Found out why the big package hasn't arrived - the guy who was sending is from Canada and uses a guy in NY to ship his stuff.  And this guy took it upon himself to ship this big package media mail rather than the service I'd paid for - express or Priority.  So, heaven knows when it will get here.  The guy who made the decision seems to think it will be here by the weekend, but that has not been my experience with media mail ever.  It's the cheapest way to ship and therefore the USPS cares about it even less than the packages they already don't care about - bottom of the heap always, and especially at this time of year.  I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't arrive until after the first of the New Year - I hope he's right and it does arrive by Saturday - the only reason to hope is because it is insured and it does have delivery confirmation.  The seller feels terrible and is offering me several things to make up for it.  I just want the damn package, which should have been here yesterday had his person shipped the way he was supposed to.

At least the seller is trying to do something to make up for the mistake, not that it helps you much but better than if he acted like a jerk.

[George]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

He sings in that clip...and he's had a rock band for years, if I remember correctly.

He could have been dubbed which is why I asked.  I didn't get that far either, figure I would wait to see it without the subtitles

Everything that I've read says that everyone did their own singing...no one was dubbed and it was all recorded live.

[Jane]

But the best part of the afternoon was reconnecting with someone I haven't talked to in literally twenty-nine years.  She was in the ensemble in that Likely Stories episode I directed, the musical of The Elephant Man and I remember we hung out together for a bit back then - just friends.  Went to movies and dinner, but I was embroiled in that wacko relationship with the actress that I talk about in my first memoir and that was so tumultuous that I kind of blew off all my friends back then.  I remembered this gal when I had that episode of Likely Stories transferred to DVD and a mutual friend had a friend who's stayed in touch and so today I got the number and we had a splendidly splendid and fun chat for over an hour.  Amusingly, she recognized my voice immediately.  Isn't that funny?  I invited her to the Christmas Eve Do, but if she can't swing that, we'll have dinner next week.

Have a nice get time when you do connect.

[Jane]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

He sings in that clip...and he's had a rock band for years, if I remember correctly.

He could have been dubbed which is why I asked.  I didn't get that far either, figure I would wait to see it without the subtitles

Everything that I've read says that everyone does their own singing...all recorded live and no one is dubbed.

Thanks.  He was the only one I wondered about, of the people I know anyway.

[John G.]

Nice story about reconnecting after 29 years, BK. Hope the reunion goes well.

[John G.]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

He sings in that clip...and he's had a rock band for years, if I remember correctly.

He could have been dubbed which is why I asked.  I didn't get that far either, figure I would wait to see it without the subtitles

Everything that I've read says that everyone does their own singing...all recorded live and no one is dubbed.

Thanks.  He was the only one I wondered about, of the people I know anyway.

In her short bit, Helena Bonham Carter sounds much better than she did in "Sweeney." I thought she made a good Mrs. Lovett in that on every level but musical.

I did not like the editing, though. Or the hand-held camera work. Or the overly limited color palate.

[bk]

Delivery will be here ten minutes before the end of the window - which means I've sat here for three hours and forty minutes for no reason.

[Jennifer]

Thanks everyone.  I'm excited and very glad that I'll know on Friday.  Edith is nervous but excited too.  She has been looking at opportunities should I get the job and has already found several that look good to her.  She told me that she's learned something from everyone she's worked for and what she learned from me was not to be afraid to take a chance like I did when I left a really good job when  I wasn't happy because things can turn out very well. She said she could sit at home and be miserable about it or she can look at it as an opportunity to do even better.  

I didn't realize this would mean closing your office & not having Edith working for you anymore-WOW!

I'm sure with the glowing recommendation you would give Edith she would get any job she applied to.

I gathered it would mean closing the office, but not that Edith couldn't go along. Hope it all works out for both of you.

[Jennifer]

Here's "One Day More" from "Les Miz." I just wish I knew when it opened. Can anyone help me?

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

I was very disappointed when I saw this on stage.  I'm will be very curious to the reactions here, and as DR Jennifer mentioned, the reactions compared to having seen it live or not.

Does Russel Crowe sing?

You didn't like LES MIS? Or you didn't enjoy that particular production? I love LES MIS!

Everybody sings!

[John G.]

Second watching of "The Bishop's Wife." Love Jerome Moross' orchestrations and the use of music throughout.