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[George]

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[Dan (the Man)]

With Meryl Streep! You'd think MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE would be enough for her. I guess it's like eating peanuts... Once you've done one pointless remake of a perfect film, it's hard to stop.

Dan Zack wouldn't mind if Meryl Streep added one more peanut by doing a remake of The Rose Tattoo.

[bk]

Randall Duk Kim! There's a name I haven't heard in forever.  Though I never saw him before, I know he ran a Shakespeare Festival somewhere like Michigan or Wisconsin...with himself playng most of the leading parts.  I had a friend who worked with him.  I gathered he found the fellow rather eccentric.  What were your impressions, BK?

He was a bit strange in the studio, but I loved his performance and he was VERY grateful I fought to have him on the album.  But he started to do "studio" acting and I went in and said, "No, no, I want just what you do in the show - bring in the Kralahome."  Then he was fine and he's wonderful on the album in his two short bits.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

DD and her bf are going to be doing some serious traveling around Europe in the next while. She just sent me an article about an undiscovered "hidden Riviera" section of Italy they're going to visit. Sounds DEE-vine. Here it is:

http://www.ricksteves.com/news/0101/vernazza.htm

DR Panni,

Did you read the entire article? That's quite a beach, Guvano.


Just out of Corniglia on the high trail to Vernazza, you'll see the well-hung Guvano beach far below. The nude Guvano beach made headlines in Italy in the 1970s, as clothed locals in a makeshift armada of dinghies and fishing boats retook their town beach. But big-city nudists still work on all-around tans in this remote setting.

[bk]

BK:

Recently watch an episode of Donny and Marie you did with Cindy Williams and Paul Lynde. (The Babes in Arms one) My question is were you dubbed when it came to the singing? It sure as heck did not sound like you and except for a tiny solo that Cindy had most of the singing did not sound like her either. Care to discuss?

I most certainly am NOT dubbed (and neither is Cindy) - we prerecorded everything with the marvelous Tommy Wolf, the music director of the show (if I'm remembering the episode correctly).  It's us all the way.

[Dan (the Man)]

Also on tonight is a show I thought I would hate, Wife Swap.  But it's actually quite interesting.  They take two wives and have them switch familes.  But the interesting part is that these women are opposites.

Dan Zack can't wait until they do Celebrity Wifeswap.  Dan Zack would like to see Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston play switchies with Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas.

[bk]

The internet is turning people into idiots...or idiots are over-running the internet.  I just got off the IDMB reading some of the comments about my films.  One on PSYCHO III has this whole idiot debate,pondering who the real killer is...The killer's identity was never in doubt, never a question, not meant in any way to be oblique or obscure or a mystery.  Yet here are these idiots actually discussing it...and one referring to some movie trivia site where he picked up this relevatory insight on who the killer (It isn't who he says it is!  It's obvious, you cretin!  No mystery).  Tell me that all these maroons are 12-17 year old boys.  They can't really be adults, can they?  The trouble with the internet is that uninformed opinions can spew all over it, spreading disinformation and idiocy and lowering the general IQ's of its users.

I have been complaining about this very thing, these 12 year old jerks who clog up the imdb with their inanities, for years.  In fact, I will sometimes go on and post my own thing which is never a review of the film in question but a review of the idiots who post.  I would say that many in the current generation border on illiteracy - they cannot construct a single coherent sentence, they mis-spell the simplest of words (the most amusing of which is the constant usage of "loose" for "lose") and their "thoughts" are childish and stupid.  I know there are exceptions and that some youngsters (especially the ones who visit here) are very bright, but the majority of today's youth doesn't read, doesn't know how to write and only knows from things that happened in the last five years.

[bk]

And yes, where in tarnation IS dear reader Jed?  Not to mention dear reader Ann, both of whom have probably run off together and are living in torrid sin.  Perhaps I'll drop dear reader Ann a little note and bitch-slap her from here to eternity and hell and back.

The pool man was here and the little heater problem was a simple one - the water level in the pool had gotten just a bit too low and the machinery shuts off when that happens.  I now know how to add water to make sure it doesn't happen, and I'd also been keeping the pool just a shade too warm (heat evaporates water).  Another problem solved.  Now if we can just get a garage door opener that works, figure out the timers on the outside lights, and figure out the pool lights I'll be all set.

[Jane]

Oh darn, I missed TCB Steele.

Panni it looks beautiful.  We should have a HHW gathering there.

Elmore I too want to know what happened to Jed and Ann.

CharlePogue are you going to post on the site and explain who the killer is?
I recently read Amy Tans book “The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings” where she talks about her reaction to discussions of her books and the “meaning or message” in them.

[elmore3003]

The internet is turning people into idiots...or idiots are over-running the internet.  I just got off the IDMB reading some of the comments about my films.  

I didn't even realize there was a discussion section on IMDB until you mentioned it.  I only go there to look up casts and other credits.  After your experience, I 'll never check out the discussions.  Long before I had a computer, while I was working with BK on a recording in LA, a friend showed me his computer and we logged on to a musical theatre site.  After reading questions, and seeing the number of responses, to questions such as "who was the worst Fantine you ever saw?" or "I'm looking for a song 'I Could Have Danced all Night'; where can I find it?", I knew the internet was run over by a bunch of morons, and I've never gone to any musical theatre chat room since then.

When I was at Goodspeed, I looked up all my CD reviews on Amazon.com.  One idiot said UNSUNG MUSICALS was a great idea done poorly with syunthesized sounds and a drum track.  I rebutted the reviewer for two reasons:
  1.  I was there, as was BK, when we recorded and every instrument was played by a fine musician  (all right, one should havbe been replaced).
  2.  The reviewer suffered from terminal stupidity and tone deafness.

[Panni]

DIT - Yes, I (and Tab-Tuesday) read about the nude beach. I've always been a rather free spirit of a mother. And actually it seems to have worked as DD is a very good person in every way. I've only been strict about the important things in life. And when you really think about it, there aren't that many. My motto in child rearing is choose your battles carefully. I doubt if DD would go on the nude beach, but if she did - why not?

[Dan (the Man)]

I know there are exceptions and that some youngsters (especially the ones who visit here) are very bright, but the majority of today's youth doesn't read, doesn't know how to write and only knows from things that happened in the last five years.

Dan Zack bemoans the state of this Generation Z.  Dan Zack hates to generalize, but Dan Zack finds most college-aged (and under) kids to be willfully anti-intellect, materialistic and socially exclusive (not to mention a horrendeous taste in music.)  Dan Zack doesn't have much hope that these kids are going to come out of the woodwork by the thousands and swing the election towards Kerry.  This generation values lay more on the side of the fabulous bling, the pimped up ride and the topdawg crib (MTV lingo!)

Dan Zack would love to be proved wrong here.  Can anyone give Dan Zack any signs of hope?

[bk]

I saw that review, too, elmore.  It was probably Robert Sher or one of his cronies.  Usually is.

Was just watching the extras on Murder on the Orient Express, and there was our very own Tony Walton.

[Panni]

I'm off to get some supper and some vacuum cleaner bags. What a life!

[Panni]

Dan Zack would love to be proved wrong here.  Can anyone give Dan Zack any signs of hope?

Tab-Tuesday-Panni's DD. That's one, anyway.

[Dan (the Man)]

Dan Zack is off to learn how life started on Earth on PBS.  

[Dan-in-Toronto]

DIT - Yes, I (and Tab-Tuesday) read about the nude beach. I've always been a rather free spirit of a mother. And actually it seems to have worked as DD is a very good person in every way. I've only been strict about the important things in life. And when you really think about it, there aren't that many. My motto in child rearing is choose your battles carefully. I doubt if DD would go on the nude beach, but if she did - why not?

Of course why not.

It was described as a well-hung nude beach.

[elmore3003]

I saw that review, too, elmore.  It was probably Robert Sher or one of his cronies.  Usually is.

Robert Sher? The young record producer lauded by James Lipton?

Dear Friend BK, did you see my rebuttal?  It was fast, but I was elated to do it.
Another question:  who has read your new book?  I can't wait.  I finished A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN last night, and I started Lawrence Watkins' ON BORROWED TIME, of which I found a first edition on Bookfinder.com.

[DearReaderLaura]

My question for Ask BK Day:

Are the Merry Searchers still searching?

[elmore3003]

Dan Zack bemoans the state of this Generation Z.  Dan Zack hates to generalize, but Dan Zack finds most college-aged (and under) kids to be willfully anti-intellect, materialistic and socially exclusive (not to mention a horrendeous taste in music.)  Dan Zack doesn't have much hope that these kids are going to come out of the woodwork by the thousands and swing the election towards Kerry.  This generation values lay more on the side of the fabulous bling, the pimped up ride and the topdawg crib (MTV lingo!)

DR Dan Zack, I know we're in trouble when the idiots who run PBS think think that art is reruns of the Lawrence Welk Show and fill their fund drive weekends with Peter, Paul & Mary, Stars of the 7os, the Three Irish Tenors, the Three Tenors, and other reunions of that ilk.  While I enjoy some of these programs, they'd be more likely to get my money if I believed they knew that classical music has been performed by better singers than Sarah Brightman and they programmed more than fluff for their endless drives.

[George]

And yes, where in tarnation IS dear reader Jed?  Not to mention dear reader Ann, both of whom have probably run off together and are living in torrid sin.

Maybe they're not living in torrid sin but "delicious sin" (a Cabaret reference)!

[Jane]

Tab-Tuesday-Panni's DD. That's one, anyway.

And my DS's.  Now both past the "college-age" but both showed signs of the mature young men they have become.  

"Dan Zack hates to generalize, but Dan Zack finds most college-aged (and under) kids to be willfully anti-intellect,"  Bryan complained of that while he was still in high school.  , let alone college.

[bk]

Not many people have read the new book.  A couple of them really loved it and one of them didn't love it.  It's all okay - it's the book I wanted to write.  I think people who love musicals will enjoy it, and I think some but not all mystery buffs will enjoy it.  At least that is my hope.

[Jane]

I look forward to reading your new book.

[Michael]

I saw that review, too, elmore.  It was probably Robert Sher or one of his cronies.  Usually is.

Was just watching the extras on Murder on the Orient Express, and there was our very own Tony Walton.

What does Robert Sher have against you?

[Charles Pogue]

Jane, I will not go on and rebut the morons.  First of all, these posts are ages old and who comes back to them? People who are stupid enough to believe stupidity, let them.  I can't really worry about them. Secondly, that could be come a lifetime time-waster, trying to refute all the mis-information and inaccurate idiocy that's out there.  You also have to remember that most of these folks are posting to be read by people just like them. Even on good messages boards like this one, you're talking to 100 to 200 people at the most.  It's rare that anything said on one of these sites is going to change the world.

I think for a many internet posters on a ot of these critique/review sites to be able to post their opinions probably for the first time in their life comes an illusion of power that just simply doesn't exist.   So why bother trying to enlightened idiots.  That's a no-win, frustrating fool's task.   If an ant gets in your way, just step over it.  After all, they're critiquing  an almost 20 year old movie.  Who cares?

[S. Woody White]

Dan Zack bemoans the state of this Generation Z.  Dan Zack hates to generalize, but Dan Zack finds most college-aged (and under) kids to be willfully anti-intellect, materialistic and socially exclusive (not to mention a horrendeous taste in music.)  Dan Zack doesn't have much hope that these kids are going to come out of the woodwork by the thousands and swing the election towards Kerry.  This generation values lay more on the side of the fabulous bling, the pimped up ride and the topdawg crib (MTV lingo!)

Dan Zack would love to be proved wrong here.  Can anyone give Dan Zack any signs of hope?

Salt would like to know why Dan Zack thinks the new generation should be any different from the generations that came before them.  Even the Flower Power generation didn't bother to vote, in spite of all their protestations.  In one era, out the other.

Salt takes all these things with a grain of, of course.

[elmore3003]

What does Robert Sher have against you?

Oy!  This is not the place to discuss him!

[Ann]

Hello everyone!  Remember me?  I used to be a regular around these parts...I have been informed by our dear leader BK that I must return to the fold or face the consequences, so here I am!  I have been a bit busy lately...still trying to find a job.  I had a few interviews last week, got my hopes up, but nothing came of any of them.  Then I had to move upstairs to a different apartment, on account of my water heater blew up and flooded my apartment over Labor Day weekend.  That was a picnic and a half...argh

anyway, I'm back!

[Jennifer]

Welcome back DR Ann.

Another good Apprentice tonight.