Topic: THE ME DAY THAT WASN'T (Read 4967 times)

Jeanne · « **Reply #90 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:26:57 PM »

I'm looking forward to the new Jerome Kern.

Jane · « **Reply #91 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:27:51 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on July 08, 2019, 04:11:08 PM

Quote from: Jane on July 08, 2019, 03:39:57 PM
Condolences to Richard on the loss of his friend.

Thank you, DR Jane. David was really more of a long-ago friend, who lived next door (with his parents) to our first house. He and Richard had lost touch after we moved and his parents died. Our closest current connection to his family is his sister-in-law, who does all our picture framing. She and her husband (David’s brother) and David’s sister were surprised to see us and make the connection.

I am sure they appreciated it.

Jeanne · « **Reply #92 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:34:48 PM »

I spent much of the morning on the phone to Apple. I upgraded my MacBook to Mojave recently and at first all was well. But then strange things started occurring. Nothing that suggested a hardware issue, all software-related. I was thinking through my options--Apple store, Apple Care (recently expired), independent Apple repair store--when I happened to go to the Apple site to check if others were having trouble with Mojave. I somehow landed on a phone helpline that I didn't know existed. A young woman walked me through some things and explained others. She felt that some things were reset during the upgrade. It's too soon to say that all is well, but I certainly hope so. Mostly, I'm pleased to have another source of support. Twice I've gone back to the Apple site to get the phone number, but can't find it. Deliberately obscure? If any of our HHW Apple users know it, please let me know!

Jeanne · « **Reply #93 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:40:49 PM »

The Apple person and I were chatting a bit while things were loading. She asked if it was raining where I was. "Raining? No. Just earthquakes." She is based in DC and hadn't heard about our earthquakes, but it was pouring in DC. She's apparently never lived in California. We don't get a lot of rain.

Jeanne · « **Reply #94 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:49:11 PM »

The Apple specialist wasn't in last week when I was at Best Buy, but I have a number of questions for him, too.

Jeanne · « **Reply #95 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:53:35 PM »

I spoke to my friend in Hawaii today. We talked a bit about earthquakes. He said that last year when the volcano was erupting they had earthquakes EVERY day for months. Ugh! Horrible!

Jane · « **Reply #96 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:53:41 PM »

DR Jeanne I hope your MacBook problems are over.

FJL · « **Reply #97 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:53:49 PM »

Larry - were the comments negative or just humorless?

If what he wrote back was humorless, maybe there's something you can learn about how to present the material, maybe playful chapter titles?

Jeanne · « **Reply #98 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:56:10 PM »

Vibes to John G and his friends over their recent loss.

FJL · « **Reply #99 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:58:39 PM »

I knew this before, but it came up on my YouTube playlist today. Sounds like Harvey Fierstein had not had a great experience doing the 90-minute "Hairspray" in Vegas.

Harvey Fierstein on doing "Hairspray" in Vegas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_vvsiJUxw
Great stuff on people wearing their two drinks around their necks - since you need more than one drink to get through 90 minutes.

He says at one point, something like: you go on your vacation and choose to stay at this huge themed hotel The Luxor, which is a huge tomb - where in the basement they present "Hairspray."

Jeanne · « **Reply #100 on:** July 08, 2019, 04:59:00 PM »

Quote from: Jane on July 08, 2019, 04:53:41 PM

DR Jeanne I hope your MacBook problems are over.

Yes, thanks. Good support makes such a difference! I could buy a new MacBook, but the keyboard's different and I'm not sure I'd like it. Besides, I like my old one.

Jeanne · « **Reply #101 on:** July 08, 2019, 05:00:49 PM »

TTFN.

bk · « **Reply #102 on:** July 08, 2019, 06:09:39 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 08, 2019, 12:48:44 PM

Quote from: bk on July 08, 2019, 11:40:19 AM
McGlinn is credited as an arranger for one track, and you are for two.

Hmmm . . . McGlinn didn't arrange, he just brought in the SHOW BOAT chorus and Karla Burns from the 1983 revival, as I remember. If he arranged anything, it would have been the medley from GENTLEMEN UNAFRAID with Ron Raines, but I'm not sure that's ever been on CD.

My memory of those sessions is that I scored "The Bullfrog Patrol" (I loved Joanne Woodward!) and a couple of things for Rod McKuen, who was a very kind man. I might have written the chart for "April Fooled Me, but it's too long ago now. Often Dennis Deal would call me and ask me to write a violin part for him.

I can only go by the credits on the CD, which credit you with Day Dreaming and Bullfrog. McGlinn is credited with It Wasn't My Fault, and someone named Bill Tynes is credited with Worries. If this isn't correct let me know so I can fix the booklet.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #103 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:02:19 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 08, 2019, 06:09:39 PM

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 08, 2019, 12:48:44 PM
Quote from: bk on July 08, 2019, 11:40:19 AM
McGlinn is credited as an arranger for one track, and you are for two.

Hmmm . . . McGlinn didn't arrange, he just brought in the SHOW BOAT chorus and Karla Burns from the 1983 revival, as I remember. If he arranged anything, it would have been the medley from GENTLEMEN UNAFRAID with Ron Raines, but I'm not sure that's ever been on CD.

My memory of those sessions is that I scored "The Bullfrog Patrol" (I loved Joanne Woodward!) and a couple of things for Rod McKuen, who was a very kind man. I might have written the chart for "April Fooled Me, but it's too long ago now. Often Dennis Deal would call me and ask me to write a violin part for him.

I can only go by the credits on the CD, which credit you with Day Dreaming and Bullfrog. McGlinn is credited with It Wasn't My Fault, and someone named Bill Tynes is credited with Worries. If this isn't correct let me know so I can fix the booklet.

I would swear I did not do "Day Dreaming," but I did do "Bullfrog Patrol."
Bill Tynes was the producer for the New Amsterdam Theatre Company at Town Hall between 1981 and 1985. I worked on every one of their productions except for I MARRIED AN ANGEL and MUSIC IN THE AIR because of the work on JUBILEE, which Bill wanted to produce on Broadway. He was the violinist on this Kern recording and the Bernstein Revisited. He died in Jan. 1987 from AIDS. "Worries" sounds just like something from his piano-violin act with Ethan Mordden in the early 1980s. I still miss Bill, one of my dearest friends.
I still doubt the McGlinn credit, but he was a real fanatic about the Kern scores from the 1910s and 1920s, so it's possible. I was only at the sessions for the things I did.

bk · « **Reply #104 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:02:39 PM »

Mac Mail is totally screwed right now - nothing is working - this has been happening once a month and all one can do is wait it out and do everything from the phone, as that works fine. It is so annoying.

bk · « **Reply #105 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:06:17 PM »

I had Taco Bell for lunch. Marshall Harvey came by and we had a long chat about The Creature Wasn't Nice. We're mushing ahead, but the director's cut is going to have several adjustments to it so that perhaps I can finally have it be pretty close to what I wanted it to be but wasn't allowed to finish. That will include additional music and sound effects, a few trims, the Dirty Harry trailer being put in (it was never in my cut but should have been), and we're adding a theremin to the main title, something I told the composer I wanted and which he completely ignored, even after I heard it and complained that it was not what I asked for. So, we'll see how that works. But this is definitely happening and will probably require a relatively small Indiegogo campaign, so stay tuned. I'm actually hoping it doesn't require that, but we shall see.

bk · « **Reply #106 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:07:45 PM »

Listening to music. Don't think I'm in the mood to watch anything. Mac Mail has caused me to be in a fowl mood, so I had some chicken in a biskit crackers.

George · « **Reply #107 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:11:09 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 08, 2019, 07:06:17 PM

I had Taco Bell for lunch. Marshall Harvey came by and we had a long chat about The Creature Wasn't Nice. We're mushing ahead, but the director's cut is going to have several adjustments to it so that perhaps I can finally have it be pretty close to what I wanted it to be but wasn't allowed to finish. That will include additional music and sound effects, a few trims, the Dirty Harry trailer being put in (it was never in my cut but should have been), and we're adding a theremin to the main title, something I told the composer I wanted and which he completely ignored, even after I heard it and complained that it was not what I asked for. So, we'll see how that works. But this is definitely happening and will probably require a relatively small Indiegogo campaign, so stay tuned. I'm actually hoping it doesn't require that, but we shall see.

That's very exciting!

George · « **Reply #108 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:18:42 PM »

Time to leave work and go home.

Be back later.

bk · « **Reply #109 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:28:55 PM »

elmore, it's fascinating how cheaply done volume two was - perhaps the cheapest-sounding of all that I've heard, but I haven't delved further into Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter yet, not to mention Vernon Duke. So many more to do.

John G. · « **Reply #110 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:45:32 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 08, 2019, 07:28:55 PM

elmore, it's fascinating how cheaply done volume two was - perhaps the cheapest-sounding of all that I've heard, but I haven't delved further into Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter yet, not to mention Vernon Duke. So many more to do.

Love me those Cole Porter recordings. I played those more than most of the other Bagley recordings, though I have fond spots for the Berlin and the Loesser as well.

John G. · « **Reply #111 on:** July 08, 2019, 07:49:47 PM »

Watching a movie I hadn't heard of called Rope of Sand. It reunites some of the Casablanca crowd (Paul Heinreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre) in another African setting. The star this time is Burt Lancaster. The score is an excellent piece from Franz Waxman. Atmospheric direction from William Dieterle. All the right boxes checked, except for the screenplay, some nonsense about diamonds, which is a bit of a letdown.

John G. · « **Reply #112 on:** July 08, 2019, 08:00:59 PM »

Just got Mom's birthday card written. Hope it makes it to her by Saturday. The same with the gift I sent. She'll be 92.

John G. · « **Reply #113 on:** July 08, 2019, 09:10:56 PM »

I should be in bed. Instead, I'm watching the beginning of Woody Allen's Manhattan.

John G. · « **Reply #114 on:** July 08, 2019, 09:11:19 PM »

And I'm in the middle of making chicken salad from a leftover rotisserie chicken.

John G. · « **Reply #115 on:** July 08, 2019, 09:43:25 PM »

Good night, all.

vixmom · « **Reply #116 on:** July 08, 2019, 09:58:43 PM »

Did I mention I am in NY?

vixmom · « **Reply #117 on:** July 08, 2019, 09:58:58 PM »

And I worked today

vixmom · « **Reply #118 on:** July 08, 2019, 09:59:28 PM »

I really love my job

Jane · « **Reply #119 on:** July 08, 2019, 10:16:56 PM »

Quote from: John G. on July 08, 2019, 08:00:59 PM

Just got Mom's birthday card written. Hope it makes it to her by Saturday. The same with the gift I sent. She'll be 92.

Good luck her card makes in time.

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