Topic: THE ORDEAL OF THE DMV VISIT WITH HAPPY ENDING (Read 5389 times)

John G. · « **Reply #60 on:** June 22, 2019, 08:41:58 AM »

And I waited with hundreds in Austin for more than three hours to get Franklin Barbecue. The wait is part of the fun. People bring beers, chairs, etc. and make it lively. Everybody talks barbecue. The actual barbecue, when we got it, was excellent, but it wasn’t my favorite. I do love his espresso sauce on the beef ribs.

Jane · « **Reply #61 on:** June 22, 2019, 08:42:39 AM »

We waited in long lines for the original Star Treck movies.

John G. · « **Reply #62 on:** June 22, 2019, 08:49:22 AM »

Three!

John G. · « **Reply #63 on:** June 22, 2019, 08:53:55 AM »

Hi, Jane.

John G. · « **Reply #64 on:** June 22, 2019, 08:54:12 AM »

Just out of the pool.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #65 on:** June 22, 2019, 09:12:08 AM »

Memorable lines and long waits:

DMV in LA (Hollywood) and here in the Constitution State. And the emissions testing places here when they were run by the state. Man, those were primitive days. (Now that all kinds of car places can do it, it’s a breeze.)

Movies: The Godfather, The Exorcist, Jaws, E.T., and The Last Temptation of Christ always come to mind. There are surely a few I’m forgetting.

Various attractions (and eating venues) at the Disney parks, both California and Florida.

King Tut exhibition at LACMA in the late 1970s.

And leave us not forget the gas shortage lines in 1973 and 1979.

Jane · « **Reply #66 on:** June 22, 2019, 09:30:38 AM »

Hi John. Enjoy the pool time. We are off to the gyn then have a ton of errands today before connecti g with friends.

Laura · « **Reply #67 on:** June 22, 2019, 10:26:23 AM »

I waited in line eight hours at Antiques Roadshow.

Jane · « **Reply #68 on:** June 22, 2019, 10:30:21 AM »

DR Laura as of today our arms no longer hurt. How are you feeling after your vaccination?

FJL · « **Reply #69 on:** June 22, 2019, 10:39:55 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 22, 2019, 01:10:19 AM

Even though I'm exhausted, I'm not quite ready for bed yet.

It's "Applause," not "Woman of the Year," but what a Bacall song lead-in at 0:45 here
"I'm too exhausted to go to the party, but I'm much too excited to go home to sleep."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRikWbT6WG0

FJL · « **Reply #70 on:** June 22, 2019, 10:57:48 AM »

BK, are there any of the songs cut from "Woman of the Year" that involved the child Tess had adopted, which was from the Tracy-Hepburn film?

I remember that the talented young actor and Harry Guardino had a number that went over really big the night I saw it, almost as big a hand as "Grass is Always Greener" did later in the act.

There was no "I Wrote the Book" song with Tess and the cleaning ladies and mops yet. I think maybe that wound up in that place in the running order.

FJL · « **Reply #71 on:** June 22, 2019, 10:59:42 AM »

Unlike the classic film where they literally brought the kid back to the orphanage like they were returning a pair of slacks, just yucky but I guess of its time IMHO, at least the first time I saw the show in Boston, Tess accepted her responsibility that she'd taken on by the end.

FJL · « **Reply #72 on:** June 22, 2019, 11:00:53 AM »

"The Grass is Always Greener" had a much stronger dramatic function along with all the fun of the number - making Tess really get that she needed to be there for the adopted kid she'd taken on the commitment to (at the time adopted foreign kids was very "fashionable" and I wondered if the authors were drawn to the material by that part of the plot since Kander and Ebb and even Stone weren't known for silly fluff), as well as her husband.

FJL · « **Reply #73 on:** June 22, 2019, 11:07:40 AM »

The adopting the kid part of the plot was gone (her somehow forgetting the kid to run off to be feted with her Wiman of the Year award and sing the first act finale made Tess pretty darn hateful at intermission) - and the show became the Tony-winning (for book and score and acting awards too) ball-o'-fluff in the maybe two or three weeks - in front of anyone who felt like paying to see it.

These days, they'd surely have realized in workshops that it was a huge problem that we had no sympathy at all for Tess at intermission, and either fixed it or maybe even just stopped the process. But I'm betting the box office advance was really good in New York by that point, and I know quite a few fans bought repeat tickets to watch the work that everyone knew was being done.

FJL · « **Reply #74 on:** June 22, 2019, 11:09:00 AM »

I never really got why Tess (Bacall) couldn't take the kid to the Woman of the Year event with her, but it became moot.

FJL · « **Reply #75 on:** June 22, 2019, 11:19:54 AM »

Regarding lines, I can't figure out the need for people who already have their tickets to stand on a line to enter the theater. I know the bag checks are needed, but they often seem not to get the line moving until 10 minutes before 7 or 8.

bk · « **Reply #76 on:** June 22, 2019, 01:31:35 PM »

The cut song I have IS a Guardino song and is probably what you're thinking of. Michael Lavine is getting me a live recording of it. If it's a male/kid thing I'll do it in the 100th show.

bk · « **Reply #77 on:** June 22, 2019, 03:14:06 PM »

I shall now be on my way to see some one-acts.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #78 on:** June 22, 2019, 03:19:35 PM »

These Promenade parts are such a mess! I've been through maybe six numbers today. After I finish dinner, I'll go back and write the violin part fro the Act Two czardas.

Ginny · « **Reply #79 on:** June 22, 2019, 03:49:08 PM »

Saturday evening greetings! We eased into the day and got to the convention center about 11, just in time for me to get a great seat for Hoda Kotb. After that I wandered the exhibit hall, with a short lunch break with Richard, until 4. Then I went to a multi-publisher book buzz and we’re now back at the hotel. In about an hour we’re going for ice cream with Becki, a long-lost friend of mine and DR Elmore’s.

Ginny · « **Reply #80 on:** June 22, 2019, 03:52:04 PM »

TOD - One of our longest waits was 5 hours on the plane waiting to take off from London during a snowstorm. By the time we got to Newark, of course, our connection to Dayton was long gone.

FJL · « **Reply #81 on:** June 22, 2019, 05:06:00 PM »

Ginny - How was the crowd for Hoda?

John G. · « **Reply #82 on:** June 22, 2019, 05:06:09 PM »

Quote from: Jane on June 22, 2019, 09:30:38 AM

Hi John. Enjoy the pool time. We are off to the gyn then have a ton of errands today before connecti g with friends.

An obgyn? Or a bottle of gyn?

Speaking of which, I brought a bottle of gin I thought was unopened. It was. I hadn’t drunk it because it was bad. Really bad. It’s staying here.

vixmom · « **Reply #83 on:** June 22, 2019, 05:37:21 PM »

We're in Florida

vixmom · « **Reply #84 on:** June 22, 2019, 05:37:52 PM »

We went fir dinner she I made the mietake of having a cicktail

vixmom · « **Reply #85 on:** June 22, 2019, 05:38:08 PM »

Skerping niw

vixmom · « **Reply #86 on:** June 22, 2019, 05:38:23 PM »

Goidnight

Ginny · « **Reply #87 on:** June 22, 2019, 07:07:34 PM »

Quote from: FJL on June 22, 2019, 05:06:00 PM

Ginny - How was the crowd for Hoda?

A full house and her Mom, a librarian who worked at the Library of Congress, was right down front!

John G. · « **Reply #88 on:** June 22, 2019, 07:14:05 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on June 22, 2019, 07:07:34 PM

Quote from: FJL on June 22, 2019, 05:06:00 PM
Ginny - How was the crowd for Hoda?

A full house and her Mom, a librarian who worked at the Library of Congress, was right down front!

Nice to know that about her mom. Says something nice about her.

John G. · « **Reply #89 on:** June 22, 2019, 07:14:20 PM »

Let’s move on...

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