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[John G.]

Two!

[Freddie]

DR  JOHN G Ii think I got the Lost Horizon soundtrack from the record club before the movie was in wide release.

Jrand, I was the one who had asked about having had the album before the movie was out and declared not good.

Thanks for answering.  That does make sense - I made a lot of my LP purchases in those days from the record clubs. 

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[Freddie]

One of my favorite YouTube comments was on a parody of a Burt Bacharach -Hal David song.  I thought Jan Horvath sounded fantastic on this parody track

Kristin Chenoweth Tribute - 2010's"Promises, Promises" - "Knowing When To Close" - Parody of "Knowing When to Leave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_ZsvMCZTo

This was the comment.  (I choose to assume. since they were being positive, that they meant the opposite of what they wrote.)

@bbrj127
14 years ago
Wow! That was really great! I can't believe more folks are listening to this - it's great!

[ChasSmith]

HELL AND DAMNATION!

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[ChasSmith]

I was going to post another in that series of photos I took of Annabelle upon my first appearance before Her Majesty's throne.

[Freddie]

This below is one of those headlines that makes you think, "Really?  You think that might have been a clue?"


"Keith Urban Getting 'His Own Place' Was a Turning Point in Nicole Kidman Split: 'Writing Was on the Wall' (Exclusive Source)"

[ChasSmith]

I believe I posted that I'd stayed awake through about half of Our Man in Havana when shown on TCM a few nights ago?

Well, it was so damned appealing that the next day I took out the Twilight Time Blu-ray and watched it straight through from the beginning. I was glued to it throughout.

I think I read the Graham Greene book just before seeing it some years ago, and I loved both. Now I've got to read it again, because after this viewing I'm declaring this to be one of my top favorite movies. (Top ten? Top five? Top fifty? I don't play those games. I'm just stating that it's one of my supremely favorite movies, and that list is expandable as needed.)

Somehow I'd missed before that Greene wrote the screenplay. Did he write any others? I'll have to check. But this film, man... 

The B&W Cinemascope is stunning. The cast (Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Noël Coward, Ernie Kovacs, Maureen O'Hara) is uniquely great. And not least, though lighthearted in certain respects, it's also one of the great Cold War films, one of my favorite categories in film and literature. It doesn't even have a score, just "diegetic" music. And it doesn't need any more than that. It is, in short, in my humble blah blah blah, a perfect movie.

I couldn't be happier to have that Blu-ray. Prior to Twilight Time, it was only ever issued on DVD in the U.S., and even now, the only in-print Blu-rays I saw on a very quick search are imports of unknown provenance.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - six hours of sleep.

[bk]

Nice that tomovoz is still around and kicking. It was an unfortunate situation with him from the time when Mark Rothman was here trying to steal everyone to come to HIS newly-created blog copycat site - he was so obnoxious and people were getting irritated and I told him to STOP. Then he began emailing or PMing everyone and bashing me and sadly tomofoz, to whom I'd always been nothing but nice, joined in on the bashing BK - the ONLY one. How do I know this? Because the jerk sent me tom's email to show me that I was hated by everyone, with an especially nasty nod from tom about my books that followed the Kritzer books. I wrote tom, just so he knew Mark had forwarded me his email and told him I was sorry he felt as he did. I think he was so mortified that he never returned. Glad elmore stayed in touch - lovely review.

[Freddie]

I see on google that Mark Rothman played the Brain.  Did he once post here as a DR also?

[Rodzinski]

Happy Annabelle Day!

[Rodzinski]

This below is one of those headlines that makes you think, "Really?  You think that might have been a clue?"


"Keith Urban Getting 'His Own Place' Was a Turning Point in Nicole Kidman Split: 'Writing Was on the Wall' (Exclusive Source)"

Yes I wonder if my wife suspects anything since I just bought a new house in another town.

[Jane]

From Bruce:

Jane, Monday is the big pill day because in addition to what I do daily, I do my weekly pill, which is eight little pills.

Wow, at least you only have to do that once a week.

[Freddie]

This below is one of those headlines that makes you think, "Really?  You think that might have been a clue?"


"Keith Urban Getting 'His Own Place' Was a Turning Point in Nicole Kidman Split: 'Writing Was on the Wall' (Exclusive Source)"

Yes I wonder if my wife suspects anything since I just bought a new house in another town.

[Jrand75]

Sorry DR FREDDIE I don't always scroll up.

[Jrand75]

Seventy years ago today....we lost James Dean.

[Jane]

I'm curious who "Everyone" is that said the new Jurassic Park was the best since the original.  It only scored a 5.9 on IMDB.

It was far from the best IMHO

[Jane]

Wordle 1,564 5/6

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Good.

[Jane]

Hiya, G! Toilets in place?

One is.  The other will be installed later today.

I hope you are very pleased with them.

[Jrand75]

Speaking of TOMOVOZ.

Last night I was looking up something.

I remember many years ago I was sitting on a bench outside the theeder where the Children's Theeder Workshop was going on. An older lady was sitting on the bench across from me. We started talking. She said she had enjoyed The Crucible the opening show of the season.

She told me her name was Jean Nascimbene and she was married to a retired doctor. Her grand daughter was in the workshop. She them mentioned that her father had been an actor on Broadway. She was very casual about him.

She told me his name Paul Huber.

[Freddie]

Sorry DR FREDDIE I don't always scroll up.

But I was happy to get the answer.

[George]

Yesterday, I got a beautiful review for Annabelle & Thatch from former DR Tomovoz:
If you're like me and immerse yourself in a book
There is a treasure that I can recommend to you
Where the characters inside will touch your heart
As affectionate cats and kittens are prone to do

A book that is based on a reality of a love shared
The adventures of two cats will make you smile
You'll meet their human and avian friends as well
I guarantee you'll be charmed by the writer's style

One of those books not to be kept on your shelf
The characters will need to be close to your side
Their reality you will need to share with loved ones
(I'll confess there were situations when I cried)

At last the perfect gift for friends who understand
That a family is far more than those sharing a name
There are bonuses if you love theatre and New York
A stella gift; your view of cats will never the same

That's wonderful, Larry!

[George]

And speaking of Annabelle, eight years ago today, I attended a pet adoption event at Union Square and home with a young, maybe 8-10 month-old cat named Annabelle. In that one day, my life changed forever. This photo was taken in her first week with me.

So sweet! Happy Gotcha Day to you and Annabelle!

[George]

Congrats to DR LAURA and DR GEORGE on their millstones.

Thanks, Jrand!

[Jrand75]

Her father was Rosencrantz in John Barrymore's HAMLET.....and lots of other things in the 1920's.

He worked up until ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. He was in The Immoralist with James Dean.

His Equity Card was something like #3.

Jean was in a musical with him during WWII titled Strip For Action which was her debut and swansong.....

[George]

Burt was always there by the time I came along. His work with Dionne Warwick was a part of the scene from my first awareness of music. Amazing run.

I think this pretty much sums up my experience, too.  I heard her songs, then found out he wrote them, then discovered musicals and eventually Promises, Promises.

[Jrand75]

ANYWAY I told this story again because as I was looking her up on the web last night, the story came up as I had posted in on HHW back in 2012...and one of the other posters on the page was Tomovoz.....

I know long walk-short pier.

[ChasSmith]

Access to the site, and to photo uploading, both, are off and on for me. When it's on, it's good.
This is from about ten minutes ago when it was stubbornly inaccessible for a while:

[ChasSmith]

One might almost say that access is a fickle pickle, if one was of a mind to do so.