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[Ben]

And one for Mahler.

[Ben]

Has this been announced yet?

Reprise's season (in LA) has been released and it includes Pippin. Here is the Playbill On-Line article.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86700.html

[Panni]

I think I'd like a state funeral. But the honor guard should all wear wax lips. (This is not a total non sequitur. I happened to catch a bit of RR's procession toward the grave. The casket was being put on a plane heading for Washington. Honor guard, 21 gun salute, music, all sorts of good stuff -- and this isn't even the funeral yet.)

[Panni]

Has this been announced yet?

Si.

[Ben]

Gracias, senorita :-)

[Charles Pogue]

BK, I don't need to visit any candy websites.  Like you, I have a few old pairs of pants I'd like to fit into again.  Lots of walking and crunches lately.

[Charles Pogue]

Panni, don't know about  a state funeral, but The Lovely Wife's father...a life-long military man...was buried in a ceremony in Arlington a few years back...honour guard, twenty-one gun salute, horse-drawn casket, flag folding, all that.  Pretty impressive stuff!

[Dan (the Man)]

I think I'd like a state funeral. But the honor guard should all wear wax lips. (This is not a total non sequitur. I happened to catch a bit of RR's procession toward the grave. The casket was being put on a plane heading for Washington. Honor guard, 21 gun salute, music, all sorts of good stuff -- and this isn't even the funeral yet.)

Okay, now you have me thinking of having something along the lines of Juanita Moore's funeral in Imitation of Life, except with a glass top caskit and me wearing the wax lips.  

[Jane]

RLP I believe you meant Andrew Prine, not Prince.

[bk]

Just had a fine and low-cal luncheon of shrimp cocktail shrimp from Gelson's.  I might try to jog later on, but don't want to push too much - might be better tomorrow.

[Matt H.]

BK, I mentioned in a post the other day that I enjoyed the season finale of THE SOPRANOS and I think you and I saw different shows. You want drama and cliffhanger? How about what Johnny Sack will reveal to the feds to take Tony down? How about what's going to happen with Christopher? How about how AJ is going to get himself in too deep with his event planning and expect to be bailed out, only his father isn't going to be in a position to help him. (And how amazed I was that they didn't freak out over the possibility that he might be gay - how far they've come!) How about Uncle Junior's obviously increasing Alzheimers?And Tony has some fences to mend within his own family, too, but the increasing pressure of the feds on his life should make for a very dramatic final season. I felt watching him run for his life like a scared rabbit how un-tough and frightened these guys really can be.  

[bk]

Yes, I saw all that, but it just, for me, was dramatically inert, unlike previous season finales, which were incredible.

[Jennifer]

No HBO in Canada.  So no Sopranos for me.

Although they show it here a bit behind (I think they will show Season 4 soon and you guys just finished Season 5).  Although the movie network does show it as it airs.  But no movie network for me either.

[Sandra]

I don't know how many times I heard the story about Honest Abe walking miles and miles and miles to return a few pennies he had shorted someone in change.

I know this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but every time I hear that thing about Lincoln, it makes me think of an argument I got in with my fourth grade teacher. She told us that Lincoln got his picture on the penny because he returned six cents to somebody. I raised my hand and asked why he didn't get his face on a six-cent coin. She said that we didn't have a six-cent coin because coins' values are all divisible by five. I said that the penny is worth one cent and that's not divisible by five. She told me to be quiet.

[MBarnum]

I know this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but every time I hear that thing about Lincoln, it makes me think of an argument I got in with my fourth grade teacher. She told us that Lincoln got his picture on the penny because he returned six cents to somebody. I raised my hand and asked why he didn't get his face on a six-cent coin. She said that we didn't have a six-cent coin because coins' values are all divisible by five. I said that the penny is worth one cent and that's not divisible by five. She told me to be quiet.

Well, so much for being the teacher's pet that year!

[Stuart]

Okay, now you have me thinking of having something along the lines of Juanita Moore's funeral in Imitation of Life, except with a glass top caskit and me wearing the wax lips.  

That's one mighty fine funeral.....thinking you might get Mahalia to sing at yours too, D-in-T?

(But not my favorite scene in the movie.....which has to be Susan Kohner (Weitz) traveling around on that turntable.....kicking up those french heels!)

[TCB]

This isn't what I was going to post previously, but it was a piece of trivia that I thought was slightly interesting...as many of you know actor Dack Rambo had a twin brother named Dirk who was also an actor. The teenaged Dirk was killed in a car accident in 1967...but what I didn't know was that 1950s starlet Kathleen Case was the drive of the car that killed Dirk! I just found that interesting.

Well, Dirk Rambo was hardly a teenager when he died.  He was twenty-five.  He was killed by a drunk driver, so if Miss Case was the driver of the other car,  then I would say she was drunk.

[Robin]

27. Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?

30. Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal building?

Hey, I can actually answer these two!

27.  Because we should give our children decent literature.  Criminals deserve to get the third-rate stuff.  

30.  You do not have to swear on the Bible in court.  I was a witness at a trial about a decade ago, and when I mentioned that I was an atheist, I was just told to raise my hand and swear to tell the truth.  No Bible, no God.  Very civilized.

[William E. Lurie]

Panni---
The company where I work makes candy sticks (the pc name for candy cigarettes).  E-Mail me your snail mail address and I'll send you a box.

[Robin]

(PS: I think Iron Giant is one of the best animated films produced in the last decade or so, right up there with the Pixar films.  Amazing what can happen when attention is paid to getting the story right.)

Unfortunately, that attention to detail didn't help The Iron Giant at the box office.  Though once word got around 'bout how flat-out wonderful the movie is, it did very, very well on home video...hence, the upcoming "special edition".  (And I will be first in line to upgrade.)

I think the best animation being done right now is coming from Japan.  I've never been a big fan of these Annie-Mays, but stuff like:

Princess Mononoke
Millenium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Perfect Blue
Kiki's Delivery Service
Castle in the Sky

and last, but most especially Spirited Away are just plain great, and are far better than anything Disney's done in a long time.

[Robin]

BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER was a cute movie also, I thought....although it has been a good 12 years or so since I last saw it.

Check out the book, by Thomas M. Disch.  The movie doesn't do it justice.  

[MBarnum]

Well, Dirk Rambo was hardly a teenager when he died.  He was twenty-five.  He was killed by a drunk driver, so if Miss Case was the driver of the other car,  then I would say she was drunk.

That is right, he was 25. I don't know why I was thinking he was younger. Evidently, he died not from the impact but from the resulting fire. Very sad. Now I am even more curious as to what happened to Ms. Case!

[Jane]

Panni---
The company where I work makes candy sticks (the pc name for candy cigarettes).  E-Mail me your snail mail address and I'll send you a box.

Are they designed to look like the Lucky box?  (am I remembering the boxes from my childhood correctly?)

[MBarnum]

Are they designed to look like the Lucky box?  (am I remembering the boxes from my childhood correctly?)

I have seen candi sticks at a lot of 7-11 type stores lately and they do look identical to the candy cigarette packages of old.

[Charles Pogue]

BK,  your Hollywood Collectors Show is heating up.  You'll be sharing space not only with Elvira, but the Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss and noted porn star Marilyn Chambers.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
ANTHONY!!!!!!!!

[Panni]

Panni---
The company where I work makes candy sticks (the pc name for candy cigarettes).  E-Mail me your snail mail address and I'll send you a box.

Thank you, WEL! I can be Bette again! "What a dum-P."
I've emailed you my address. It went by a weird route, so let me know if it doesn't arrive.

[MBarnum]

BK,  your Hollywood Collectors Show is heating up.  You'll be sharing space not only with Elvira, but the Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss and noted porn star Marilyn Chambers.

I noticed that it was a rather eclectic group this time around...also it is the last show at the Beverly Garland Hotel...future shows to be in Burbank near the airport...and Ty Hardin has rescheduled!

[MBarnum]

And don't forget Tiffany! LOL!

...but Anne Jeffreys, Dean Stockwell, Cynthia Pepper, and Alan Young will be there to lend a little class.

[Ron Pulliam]

We all got a memo from the Board of Supervisors today informing us that Governor Schwarzenegger has declared Friday a holiday for State workers, as it is for Federal workers, in honor of the interment of President Reagan.  

Alameda County workers, the memo said, will observe a moment of silence at NOON, to commemorate the late president's memory.  

NOON!...Most folks are at lunch at NOON.  THey're not even giving us ONE FREAKING MINUTE OF County time!