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[singdaw]

PAGE FIVE!

[John G.]

The priest just slept with the looker.

[John G.]

Did you like Crooked House, Singdaw?

[Freddie]

Frederick is a great name because it contains six names.

OK, you've got my attention. 

[John G.]

I think the cast enjoyed chewing the scenery more than I enjoyed the cast chewing the scenery.

[Freddie]

That six-name thing was kind of interesting.

[John G.]

My favorite Terence Stamp performance, I just remembered, was as an Edgar Allen Poe type in Fellini’s Toby Dammit.

[John G.]

That short was like Fellini was trying to outdo Ken Russell.

[John G.]

Michel Legrand and the Bergmans wrote the theme song to this movie. It’s not a winner.

[singdaw]

It was entertaining, DR John G., but not a great movie.

[singdaw]

I didn't mind staring at Mr. Irons for the duration.

[singdaw]

Good night, friends.

[singdaw]

And others.

[John G.]

I didn't mind staring at Mr. Irons for the duration.

I sort of stared at Glenn Close, slackjawed at how poorly she was directed.

[bk]

Yes, a favor.

[Rodzinski]

From Wiki on "La Bęte" -

"Its Broadway run generated a loss of $2.3 million, making it one of the biggest lossmakers for a non-musical play on Broadway at the time.

The subsequent West End production was a critical and commercial success and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy. The London cast included Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam, Timothy Walker and Simon Treves."

I did see the more successful (I assume) Broadway version with Mark Rylance. I think I interviewed David Hyde-Pierce for that. The eternal opening monologue is the main thing i remember.

[Rodzinski]

Today I watched a nice print on YouTube of the George Segal-Karen Black drug movie, Born to Win, directed by Ivan Passer.

[Rodzinski]

I’d only ever seen it in horrendous VHS and DVDs where it was sold under the name Addict and made to look like bit player Robert DeNiro is the star.

[Rodzinski]

I was wrong, I talked to Hyde-Pierce during the run of Curtains.

[John G.]

This version of the theme song is much better than the Peggy Lee version in the movie, which sounded kinda warped.

https://youtu.be/-Lv3tD-4ivg?si=bukqA7PCUy1Moz3c

[John G.]

Starting My Favorite Things, a DVD of the concert celebrating 80 years of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

[John G.]

Not liking every performer. Like the woman singing What’s the Use of Wonderin’. A performer who doesn’t trust the song.

[John G.]

I watched about half.

[John G.]

Julian Ovenden did a nice job with This Nearly Was Mine, a song thst always gets to me.

[John G.]

I will finish it tomorrow.

[John G.]

First let’s ditch this page.

[John G.]

Tomorrow night, I usher for a flood relief concert.

[John G.]

Lyle Lovett is headlining.

[John G.]

Gabriel Iglesias, aka Fluffy, will host.

[John G.]

Some special guests are promised.