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| Marj |
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inlareviewer wrote: Marj wrote: inlareviewer wrote: billyweeds wrote: And who am I to argue with Tondelayo, who makes Phoebe look like Mary Poppins! Oh, billy, that's rich.
And all joking towards the left side, I cannot imagine improving on that script, but if there were enough brass in Screeneyville to dare, as with Sunset Boulevard, they'd better damn well cast it properly and bring in Someone Of Impeccable Entitlement to helm/adapt it.
Well, there is Sunset Boulevard, the musical. It's Andrew Lloyd Weber. That's worth at least two gags. I'll see your two gags, and raise you one retch.
Oh, please don't use that word to a sick person. But I could still see you and raise you. In fact I could keep doing it all day, so why don't you just hand over the dough now? |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:16 pm |
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Marj, Marj, mon petit bouquet, the check's in the mail.
GET WELL SOON . |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:31 pm |
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inlareviewer wrote: Marj, Marj, mon petit bouquet, the check's in the mail.
GET WELL SOON .
HA! And thanks mon suite. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:26 pm |
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| Back in the 60's, Sondheim had been interested in making a musical out of Sunset Blvd., but Billy Wilder said, "You can't make a musical out of this; it would have to be an opera." Sondheim decided he was right, and abandoned the project, because he didn't want to write an opera. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:30 pm |
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Has LA STREEP ever starred in SUNSET BLVD??
I remember Glenn Close...but Streep might really be something. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:04 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Back in the 60's, Sondheim had been interested in making a musical out of Sunset Blvd., but Billy Wilder said, "You can't make a musical out of this; it would have to be an opera." Sondheim decided he was right, and abandoned the project, because he didn't want to write an opera.
Ah, those were the days. And yes, I know, this really belongs in the Theater and Music Forum.
mo_flixx wrote: Has LA STREEP ever starred in SUNSET BLVD??
I remember Glenn Close...but Streep might really be something.
As for the Black/Lloyd Webbed, um, popera, on stage Close Glenn gave one of the greatest drag queen turns I've ever seen from a woman performer, "As If We Never Said Goodbye" is a stunning number, George Hearn's booming baldness was amusant and the set was spectacular. Charity prohibits further comment.
Naturally, some day they'll film it, and it might well work better. Howlyward Illogic so dictates. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:10 pm |
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bart wrote: Saw Crash (1996). I love you, Crones, and I sense what you were about, the whole understanding the world through the body theme, but...
what a sad self-indulgent piece of trash.
I've been in three car crashes. Not that this is normally a basis for expertise, but I'm thinking no one, not even the deepest S/M buff, registers a serious injury in a car crash quite like the characters in Crash. Maybe someone of that inclination can find an amusing stroke fantasy in there somewhere, but.....blecccchhhhhh.
If you've really been in a crash, as I have, you tend more toward screaming "watch the road, idiot" when you see one of those old B/W movies where the driver is looking too long at the passenger.
Glad you aren't championing Crash. I hated it. Car crashes as sexual turnons?  |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:27 pm |
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| Don't get me started. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:23 pm |
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| Little Miss Sunshine died with Alan Arkin. It must have revived itself, because once it got inside the convention room I was screaming. You're parents, f'godsakes! How the FUCK do you allow your daughters to appear on screen looking like that?! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:02 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: Has LA STREEP ever starred in SUNSET BLVD??
I remember Glenn Close...but Streep might really be something.
Streep might be great, but no one could be greater than the magnificent Betty Buckley, who I saw in the role. She had vocal chops that Glenn and Meryl could only dream about. Plus she played Norma Desmond as a genuine 50-year-old--not the eightysomething Close seemed to be doing. Buckley knew that a 50-year-old can be really sexy as well as totally delusional--but her delusion was that of an abused child, not of a gargoyle. It was a thrillingly original take on Norma. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:34 pm |
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Anyone here having trouble with Netflix the last few days? I live 50 miles from one of their mail centers, so my returns get up there overnight. The last one I mailed was Wednesday, and haven't heard from them since and the status shows as still "at home."
So I go to their so-called Help screen and it tells me I can't report a disk as missing for SIX DAYS. What a load of crap from a company that promises overnight mailing in most of the U.S.
I'm about ready to pull the plug on these assholes. Anyone have an alternative service they like?
--Fuming, waiting for my Squid and Whale |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:40 pm |
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| Bart......They don't do any mailing Sat. or Sun. And it seems like after a while they aren't in a hurry for old members. New members get more instant service. That's why I like 3 at a time. Mon. and Tues. are good days to mail things back for service by Friday. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:41 pm |
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| PS........I loved The Squid and the Whale. Please review. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:20 pm |
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| I will. And thanks for the mailing tips -- I've been getting instant turnaround up till now. E.g mail it Wednesday, they get it Thurs, I get a new one Friday. I though it was the result of being near one of their distrib centers. And the Omaha center has mailed me stuff on Saturday, so it arrives Monday. Hmm. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:30 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: Has LA STREEP ever starred in SUNSET BLVD??
I remember Glenn Close...but Streep might really be something.
By the way, if they ever do make a movie of the musical, and someone blows up the theater where they are having the premiere, it was me. I expect you all to tell the press I was a quiet man who kept to himself, mostly, but was kind to animals. |
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