Haines His Way

Why thank you, Ben.  Nice page you have here.

My grandmother had a collection of classic comic strips that she would clip from the paper and paste in a scrapbook. They are fun to read. You are right, Vixmom, people would howl now at how some kids are treated but I work in a library and there are kids that leave me shaking my head and it is not for the good.

Now why isn't this great set on CD?

Thanks to a tip on the original orchestra scores to "Brigadoon" being in the NYPL music collection, I discovered a Victor Herbert collection in the NYPL theatre collection that I didn't know exist.  Today, I looked at the original contract for BABES IN TOYLAND, signed March 27, 1903, for a play titled "The Bades in the Woods."  I also looked at contracts for Hal Roach, Disney, and the 1946 Decca Records recording with Kenny Baker.  Very exciting.

I think I will burst into song!

I actually have Brigadoon. It belonged to my grandmother.

Too many 12 year old recording executives is my guess

You could have a point there...

And another!

Besides TAR and IDOL i will need to set the VCR for the Carnegie Hall SOTH PACIFIC.

Btw, I just checked on a package i really want today and it says the mailman is out for delivery (since 1pm). I am wondering if it will come.

Well!  At last.  After two months of the phone not ringing with work, I've got a chart to do for Ron Raines and Debbie Gravitte (phone call #1) and a chart or two for Mario Frangoulis (phone call #2).  Thank you, Jesus!

Also, when I went to Lincoln Center and the NYPL, the line at the Metropolitan Opera gift shop to meet Juan Diego Florez was quite impressive; he's an amazing light tenor, a wonderful performer and one of opera's best lookers.

Excellent News!!

DR Matt do you have any idea what percentage of the votes are called and what percentaged are texted?

That's an interesting question, but I've never seen any statistics that breaks down the vote. I'd be interested in knowing that myself.

Well, I spent a nice portion of the early afternoon with the DVD of IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER.

The good news is that the film looks sharp and the Eastmancolor looks pretty good. Not dense saturation, but it's all right. The Dolby 5.1 is comparable to the laserdisc's sound.

But I think they stinted on the aspect ratio. It doesn't look like 2.55:1 to me. In the two numbers where the three male dancers are side-by-side (particularly "Once Upon a Time'), the framing looks very cramped especially on the side with Dan Dailey. I think perhaps this is 2.40:1 instead of the widest aspect ratio.

The single laserdisc of FAIR WEATHER was never framed properly, but when the disc was remastered for the Gene Kelly laserdisc boxed set, that's the first time that everything seemed right with this film on video. I didn't take it out to do a comparison this afternoon, but that's certainly going to happen soon. I want to be able to say definitively that Warners didn't frame this correctly.

Last night's SCRUBS was one of the season's best episodes: very funny and quite poignant, too, what this show does best.

When I go back down, I have the documentary on the making of IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER on the DVD as well as the outtakes which have been ported over from the remastered laserdisc.

But we know where you live dept

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (April 25) - A woman pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges in what a prosecutor said was his first case in which a defendant stole an entire house.


Wendy Jean-Francois, 44, of Morrisville, pleaded guilty Monday in Bucks County Court to multiple counts of fraud, forgery and related charges.


Prosecutors said Jean-Francois sat down Oct. 5 at a settlement table at Rainbow Assurance, a mortgage title firm in Falls, with 97 cents in her bank account.


But she used two checks totaling $63,000 and a letter vouching for them, purportedly from a Wachovia Bank manager, and left with the keys to a $328,000 home, prosecutors said.


The checks turned out to be counterfeit and the letter forged, said David Zellis, first assistant district attorney. "This just boggles the mind," he said. Bucks County Judge Kenneth Biehn deferred Jean-Francois' sentencing for a mental health evaluation.

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I actually have Brigadoon. It belonged to my grandmother.

Yes, isn't there a Mr. Forsyth and a Mr. Lundy in Brigadoon?  We used to say that was my brother and our next door neighbor....well at least the names were right

We cannot have ENOUGH Mario Frangoulis...EVER!