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[John G.]

Loved the photos in the notes.

[John G.]

Two!

[John G.]

TOD

Red Skeleton wasn’t as fun or funny as he thought he was.

Gary Sandy was the only one who wanted to go out and have a beer.

[John G.]

TOD2:

Bobby Short was all champagne and fizz. He could have been anything and I would have probably loved it.

[John G.]

TOD 3:

In interview setups, most celebrities are “on.” A few exceptions were Rosemary Clooney, Pat Carroll and Lena Horne, who was pleased anyone was still interested in her Cotton Club days.

[John G.]

TOD 4

Hands-down winner was Cloris Leachman, who asked if I wanted the G-rated or X/rated interview. I chose the X and didn’t stop laughing for an hour. I couldn’t use a single sentence she said, and it didn’t matter.

[George]

The City Center direct deposit has landed, so that's a big relief.

Hoo and Ray!!

[George]

Thanks DR CHAS SMITH - I just tried it again AND IT CAME ON!

Whew!!

[George]

Topic of the Day:

Cheryl Bentyne
Ann Hampton Callaway
Debbie Gravitte
Bruce Kimmel

[John G.]

Topic of the Day:

Cheryl Bentyne
Ann Hampton Callaway
Debbie Gravitte
Bruce Kimmel

Debbie Gravitte was fun. I haven’t met that Kimmel fellow in person yet.

[Jrand74]

It is an indeed an experience DR JOHN G and I would recommend anyone take advantage of the opportunity.....LOL

[Jrand74]

The man came by and told me that the heat pump doesn't always starts running immediately when it is turned on - sometimes it takes up to 10 minutes.....

I said okay.....so I'll turn it on and wait.....although I don't imagine in will be off anytime in the next few days...

[Ginny]

Thursday afternoon greetings!  Our only DAR activity today was a lovely historic preservation luncheon where the guest speaker was Mary Oehrlein (say “airline”).  She’s the historic preservation officer for the Architect of the U. S. Capitol and her topic was the recent restoration of the Capitol dome.  The meal was very good and we sat with some nice ladies from Indiana.

[Ginny]

We are about to leave to meet a college friend of Richard’s.  I’ve never met him and Richard hasn’t seen him for 50+ years.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - up at eleven after eight hours of sleep, but so many things willy-nilly and also nilly-willy - phone call to AFTRA about pension - no lump sum there, so I'm taking my tiny monthly.  They were the most laughable union when I worked and the fact that they get away with this low a pension with the amount of AFTRA work I did, well... in fact, much of my income is hugely underreported.  The Dinah summer replacement series - if one is to believe what was reported, I made under a grand per episode - absolutely impossible.  I'm also pretty sure the Donny and Maries are either gone completely or underreported, I don't even see the Alice episode as that year reported no income - and their position is that I'd have to contact all those various companies and have them resubmit - yeah, that's gonna happen forty-five years later.  SAG - no worries.  DGA - no worries.  AFTRA - sucks.  And the fact that the pension stuff is not part of the SAG-AFTRA merger is both incompetent and much too obvious.

[bk]

Then I went and had a Cobb Salad and bagel, then over to pick up a digital transfer of a three-quarter inch tape from Dinah and Her New Best Friends.  I believe I have the ONLY surviving footage from that show.  This one's a highlights reel of a longer tape, so I'm having the longer tape transferred, too, and I'm hoping that has my big song on it - I did I Write the Songs live (track was pre-recorded, but I sang live) and I'd love to see that.  Should I put the highlights reel on the Tube of You?  There's a weird Sonny and Cher spoof that Diana Canova and I do, there's a really funny sketch that Cindy and I do - we wrote it ourselves - there's some sketches I have no memory of that are funnier than I remembered, including a really funny one with Leland Palmer, and more, including the infamous Tap Your Troubles Away number with Cindy, Diana, and me.  We were all so not great that they made the conceit that we were kids performing for some kind of tap show.  And funnily, we're better than I remembered.  Hugh Lambert choreographed.

[George]

Then I went and had a Cobb Salad and bagel, then over to pick up a digital transfer of a three-quarter inch tape from Dinah and Her New Best Friends.  I believe I have the ONLY surviving footage from that show.  This one's a highlights reel of a longer tape, so I'm having the longer tape transferred, too, and I'm hoping that has my big song on it - I did I Write the Songs live (track was pre-recorded, but I sang live) and I'd love to see that.  Should I put the highlights reel on the Tube of You?  There's a weird Sonny and Cher spoof that Diana Canova and I do, there's a really funny sketch that Cindy and I do - we wrote it ourselves - there's some sketches I have no memory of that are funnier than I remembered, including a really funny one with Leland Palmer, and more, including the infamous Tap Your Troubles Away number with Cindy, Diana, and me.  We were all so not great that they made the conceit that we were kids performing for some kind of tap show.  And funnily, we're better than I remembered.  Hugh Lambert choreographed.

Yes!  Put them online!

[ChasSmith]

Leland Palmer! Now I’m wondering what I ever saw her in, other than ALL THAT JAZZ which is always what comes to mind. I’d better look her up and find out.

EDIT:  Nope, that would probably be it. Amazing. So let’s have some DINAH. By all means, please post that stuff.   

[FJL]

Tap Your Troubles Away number with Cindy, Diana, and me.  We were all so not great that they made the conceit that we were kids performing for some kind of tap show.  And funnily, we're better than I remembered. 

I liked it then (I'm sure I believed the conceit was what was intended) but it's even better than I remembered. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6skpCNIoes

[FJL]

I always love that couple at 0:20 trying to sneak out unnoticed to get to the parking lot before the crowds and getting caught on camera in the stampede of dancers!

[bk]

It's uploading now - YouTube is being its occasional retarded self and being VERY slow.  So, it will probably be another thirty minutes.  I'll post the link as soon as I have it.  I'm not going to keep this up there for long - I may, in fact, want to do something with it - CBS never copyrighted anything of this show.

[elmore3003]

TOD 3:

In interview setups, most celebrities are “on.” A few exceptions were Rosemary Clooney, Pat Carroll and Lena Horne, who was pleased anyone was still interested in her Cotton Club days.

I forgot Rosemary Clooney! She was delightful.  I knew her son Rafael ling before I met her.

[elmore3003]

It was a good rehearsal.  The original orchestra parts are an embarrassment, and still caused a lot of stops.  We got through it all.  It's a long score.

[Jane]

My thermostat will NOT turn on my heat pump - so I don't have AC....and it's going to be 90 degrees for the next three days....a call has been placed....we shall see what happens....as we swelter.

Thanks DR CHAS SMITH - I just tried it again AND IT CAME ON!

Thank goodness.

[Jane]

TOD 4

Hands-down winner was Cloris Leachman, who asked if I wanted the G-rated or X/rated interview. I chose the X and didn’t stop laughing for an hour. I couldn’t use a single sentence she said, and it didn’t matter.

[bk]

Still thirty minutes to go.  I thought about just starting over and if I did it would probably upload in five minutes.

[Jane]

The man came by and told me that the heat pump doesn't always starts running immediately when it is turned on - sometimes it takes up to 10 minutes.....

I said okay.....so I'll turn it on and wait.....although I don't imagine in will be off anytime in the next few days...

You could have been told that over the phone 

[Jane]

Thursday afternoon greetings!  Our only DAR activity today was a lovely historic preservation luncheon where the guest speaker was Mary Oehrlein (say “airline”).  She’s the historic preservation officer for the Architect of the U. S. Capitol and her topic was the recent restoration of the Capitol dome.  The meal was very good and we sat with some nice ladies from Indiana.

Nice.

[Jane]

I'm up, I'm up - up at eleven after eight hours of sleep, but so many things willy-nilly and also nilly-willy - phone call to AFTRA about pension - no lump sum there, so I'm taking my tiny monthly.  They were the most laughable union when I worked and the fact that they get away with this low a pension with the amount of AFTRA work I did, well... in fact, much of my income is hugely underreported.  The Dinah summer replacement series - if one is to believe what was reported, I made under a grand per episode - absolutely impossible.  I'm also pretty sure the Donny and Maries are either gone completely or underreported, I don't even see the Alice episode as that year reported no income - and their position is that I'd have to contact all those various companies and have them resubmit - yeah, that's gonna happen forty-five years later.  SAG - no worries.  DGA - no worries.  AFTRA - sucks.  And the fact that the pension stuff is not part of the SAG-AFTRA merger is both incompetent and much too obvious.

 

[bk]

Now it's processing for another thirty-five minutes.  I did attempt to open a new window and upload again but it said an hour, so maybe it's just the size.