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[Jennifer]

Congrats to BK on finishing your new book!

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[Jane]

Good morning.

[Ginny]

Wednesday morning greetings!  Thanks to everyone who left vibes for my sister-in-law.  Her surgery went smoothly and she's being released from the hospital today.  She'll stay with her sister for a while to avoid the steps in her own house.

[Jane]

Thanks for the update and the good news.  I am glad she has a place to stay during the worst recovery stage.

[John G.]

Slow start to the day.

[John G.]

Good news, Ginny.

[Jrand74]

Congrats to MR BK!

[Jrand74]

Whew!  Judge just sentenced Dr. Nasser to 175 years in prison.  He still contends he is innocent of the charges.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - almost eight hours of sleep.

[Jrand74]

DR JOHN G  I think that TONY ROME is Jill St.John's best performance.  She is usually so stilted and phony in her acting, here she is pleasant and straight forward and no "acting" tricks.  I don't know if it was Sinatra or director Gordon Douglas....but I liked her a LOT! 

Maybe this role was closer to herself than some of her other roles.

[ChasSmith]

Oh man, those films are a hoot -- TONY ROME and LADY IN CEMENT.  The latter is, unfortunately, a bit ridiculous in comparison to the former, but I found them both a lot of fun when first watching them a year or two ago.  Now I want to see them again.

[bk]

Finished futzing and finessing.  I'd already done the major part of it last night, but I still added almost two pages and smoothed out a ton of stuff.  I'm pretty okay with it now and am now printing out these forty-seven pages then will go Xerox and get them to Muse Margaret.

[George]

Thatch climbed into bed with me around 3:30.  I got little sleep between then and 7:00.  He's like a hyper-active child, settling down for a few minutes, then jumping off the bed to return five minutes later, lie down, find a new sleeping position, find another, jump off the bed, return five minutes later, lie down, find a new sleeping position, find another, jump off the bed . . .

This has a lot of potential for the start of a romantic novella if you don't know Thatch is a cat.

[George]

I love this story!  A New South Wales Animal Shelter had a shy rather unsocial cat, Champas, for 400 days without being adopted, so they started a campaign to find him a home.  They also made him their official receptionist so that he could meet new people every day.  The campaign worked, and Champas become the owner of a young man named Nathan.

That's a pretty cool idea.

[George]

Wednesday morning greetings!  Thanks to everyone who left vibes for my sister-in-law.  Her surgery went smoothly and she's being released from the hospital today.  She'll stay with her sister for a while to avoid the steps in her own house.

Great news, Ginny!

[John G.]

DR JOHN G  I think that TONY ROME is Jill St.John's best performance.  She is usually so stilted and phony in her acting, here she is pleasant and straight forward and no "acting" tricks.  I don't know if it was Sinatra or director Gordon Douglas....but I liked her a LOT! 

Maybe this role was closer to herself than some of her other roles.

You’re right. She was very good in this.

[John G.]

Oh man, those films are a hoot -- TONY ROME and LADY IN CEMENT.  The latter is, unfortunately, a bit ridiculous in comparison to the former, but I found them both a lot of fun when first watching them a year or two ago.  Now I want to see them again.

I want to see Lady in Cement now, too.

[elmore3003]

Well, Thatch and Annabelle have revolted and stopped eating their wet food.  For a while the Fancy Feast chicken paté, chicken feast, chicken and liver, chicken and beef, and chicken hearts and liver were all they would go near, and now they're turning up their noses at all of that, barely touching it and eating only the dry food.  Finnicky cats!

[John G.]

No CDs arrived today.

[John G.]

Elmore, what can you tell me about The Lottery Bride with Friml music and Jeannette MacDonald?

[elmore3003]

City Vet called.  Thatch sees the cardiologist tomorrow.  I will drop him off at 11:00 and pick him up when they call me.

[elmore3003]

Elmore, what can you tell me about The Lottery Bride with Friml music and Jeannette MacDonald?

Absolutely nothing.  It's one of those early musicals I've never seen.

[Laura]

Good afternoon.

[John G.]

Elmore, what can you tell me about The Lottery Bride with Friml music and Jeannette MacDonald?

Absolutely nothing.  It's one of those early musicals I've never seen.

I saw a used copy today but they wanted more than I wanted to pay ($14).

[elmore3003]

I spoke to Joshie, and tomorrow I will stop into City Center and pick up some work after I drop Thatch off at the vet.  When they call me that he is ready to come home, I will leave City Center.  The nice thing is that I can pick up the No 5 bus near City Center and be dropped off directly across from the vet

[elmore3003]

Elmore, what can you tell me about The Lottery Bride with Friml music and Jeannette MacDonald?

Absolutely nothing.  It's one of those early musicals I've never seen.

I saw a used copy today but they wanted more than I wanted to pay ($14).

I was looking at that on Amazon.  It's the later re-release that cuts around 15 minutes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[John G.]

Elmore, what can you tell me about The Lottery Bride with Friml music and Jeannette MacDonald?

Absolutely nothing.  It's one of those early musicals I've never seen.

I saw a used copy today but they wanted more than I wanted to pay ($14).

I was looking at that on Amazon.  It's the later re-release that cuts around 15 minutes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Yup. That's the one. I looked it up in a Jeanette MacDonald book I have. They weren't too kind about Friml's music, which they said were made up of cut songs and scraps.

[John G.]

Listening now to a Bill Charlap Trio recording I got from the library called Uptown, Downtown. They do a nice job with the title song, cut from Follies. I also really enjoyed their Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, an all-time favorite.

A few other songs include There's a Small Hotel, Sophisticated Lady and I'm All Smiles from The Yearling musical.

The only problem is that music is probably better suited for later in the evening, not 5 p.m.

[John G.]

Let's move on ...