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[Jane]

DR George that is a fantastic photo.  I think you should make it your avatar until the show is over.

Thanks, Jane!  I just might do that.

I am excited to see you did it.

I am about to see if we can get up your way and see a couple of plays back to back

That would be great!  However, if you do, I would recommend buying your tickets online...especially if you might come up during our last weekend.  Those days tend to fill up, even though we need people to come the first weekend more:

https://www.artful.ly/store/events/10657

I am about to purchase them for this Saturday night, and then for Tom's matinee on Sunday.  It doesn't show a seat.  Do you just sit anywhere?

[elmore3003]

And to bed.  i just watched the movie Stoned, about the death of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones.  Paddy Considine played Frank Thorogood, who confessed to killing Jones.

[George]

DR George that is a fantastic photo.  I think you should make it your avatar until the show is over.

Thanks, Jane!  I just might do that.

I am excited to see you did it.

I am about to see if we can get up your way and see a couple of plays back to back

That would be great!  However, if you do, I would recommend buying your tickets online...especially if you might come up during our last weekend.  Those days tend to fill up, even though we need people to come the first weekend more:

https://www.artful.ly/store/events/10657

I am about to purchase them for this Saturday night, and then for Tom's matinee on Sunday.  It doesn't show a seat.  Do you just sit anywhere?

Yes.  It's general admission or festival seating.  The door opens at 7:30, so you'll want to get there by 7:45 at the latest to get a good seat...unless we haven't sold (m)any tickets.

[George]

And now, I'm off.  I should be at rehearsal at 7:00, and it takes me about 10 minutes to get there, but I'm not on in the first act, so it's not a great concern.

Be back later!

[Jane]

The site isn't selling me tickets.  I can get as far as putting them into my cart, and then it says my cart is empty.

[Jane]

I will try again tomorrow.

[Jennifer]

DR George - great picture!

[vixmom]

Vibes for JRands nephew

[vixmom]

Vibes for TCB nephew

[vixmom]

I am glad Elmores check arrived... Sorry about the larrylarrylarrylarry guy

[vixmom]

Eye vibes for Ginny

[vixmom]

I had two wakes to go to tonight

[vixmom]

A long time member of my church who was recently widowed  and a woman I worked With for 15 years in my old job .. She was only 8 years older  than me... Lung cancer..never smoked a day in her life

[bk]

I toughed it out and finished Manchester by the Sea - what a dreary movie and then it just stops.  137 minutes of dreary equals a director/writer in love with every shot and word of his film.  I don't know Kenneth Lonergan's work aside from This Is Our Youth, which I don't like - the actors are all fine in that low-key tragic way, and I know everyone thinks this is going to be up for a lot of Oscars, but not for me, I'm afraid.  When the big reveal happens, all seven minutes of it is scored with the Albinoni Adagio, which I thought had been retired from use in movies along with the Barber adagio.  There's a composer credited who appears to have written one piece of music for voices, but since the rest of the film is basically "scored" with Handel and Albinoni, well, I'm not sure I would even credit a person with the score of a movie who wrote one piece of music that's no more important than the classical bits.

[John G.]

DR George, that's a great photo of you in costume.

Thanks, Larry!

I missed your milestone, George. Congratulations!

[John G.]

Tracked down a copy of "Bart! The Songs of Bart Howard," which was released by Painted Smiles. I thought it might have been a Ben Bagley release. It wasn't, but it will still be a introduction to the man who wrote "Fly Me to the Moon," or "In Other Words," which is a favorite of mine.

I got to chat with Bart Howard's sister (though she was under the weather at the time and at taht point) when my "Fly Me in the Nude" parody track looked like it was going to catch on and I was trying to see if I could get "official" performance permissions for it, despite it being a parody.   She was a lovely lady and sounded very proud of her brother. 

Nice story, Fred.

[John G.]

Remember I said I was going yesterday for my annual eye exam?  Well, the upshot is that I'm scheduled for 2 cataract surgeries - right eye on December 29, left January 5.

I am not amused...

The last time that I went to the eye doctor, I was told that I have the beginnings of a cataract (I don't remember if it was in one eye or both).  But I guess it's pretty slow growing, so it's nothing to worry about yet.

I have received the same diagnosis.

[John G.]

I toughed it out and finished Manchester by the Sea - what a dreary movie and then it just stops.  137 minutes of dreary equals a director/writer in love with every shot and word of his film.  I don't know Kenneth Lonergan's work aside from This Is Our Youth, which I don't like - the actors are all fine in that low-key tragic way, and I know everyone thinks this is going to be up for a lot of Oscars, but not for me, I'm afraid.  When the big reveal happens, all seven minutes of it is scored with the Albinoni Adagio, which I thought had been retired from use in movies along with the Barber adagio.  There's a composer credited who appears to have written one piece of music for voices, but since the rest of the film is basically "scored" with Handel and Albinoni, well, I'm not sure I would even credit a person with the score of a movie who wrote one piece of music that's no more important than the classical bits.

The "everybody" group said the same of Lonergan's last movie, Margaret. I watched it but don't remember a thing about it. I sort of felt the same way you did. Well acted, but so what?

[bk]

The critics are unanimous - not a bum review anywhere for Manchester by the Sea, but they love their little art films, and several of them talk about Lonergan and his previous film Margaret, that they seemed to have gone in knowing they would LOVE this film.  I mean, every single critic.

[John G.]

Watching the first episode of A Place to Call Home. I don't need another addiction at this time. And I'm afraid this is going to be addicting.

[John G.]

LarryLarryLarryLarry.

LarryLarryLarryLarry.

LarryLarryLarryLarry.

LarryLarryLarryLarry.

[Matthew]

This is on the turntable at the moment

[Jane]

A long time member of my church who was recently widowed  and a woman I worked With for 15 years in my old job .. She was only 8 years older  than me... Lung cancer..never smoked a day in her life

I am sorry

[Jane]

Watching the first episode of A Place to Call Home. I don't need another addiction at this time. And I'm afraid this is going to be addicting.

Keith said to tell you it gets worse, meaning the obsession, not the show.

[John G.]

Watching the first episode of A Place to Call Home. I don't need another addiction at this time. And I'm afraid this is going to be addicting.

Keith said to tell you it gets worse, meaning the obsession, not the show.

Yes, I think it will. I'm deep in episode two already. And I should be in bed.

[John G.]

The critics are unanimous - not a bum review anywhere for Manchester by the Sea, but they love their little art films, and several of them talk about Lonergan and his previous film Margaret, that they seemed to have gone in knowing they would LOVE this film.  I mean, every single critic.

And yet Margaret didn't get a single Academy Award nomination, as I recall.

[vixmom]

George I meant to mention how much I like your picture , great costume and you look great!

[vixmom]

And congratulations on your millstone

[John G.]

But this raises doubt:

‘Manchester by the Sea’ Named Best Film of the Year by National Board of Review

29 November 2016 10:47 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

“Manchester by the Sea,” a critically adored drama about a grieving janitor, was named best film of the year by the National Board of Review on Tuesday.

The film, a breakout hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, also earned a best actor award for Casey Affleck’s performance and original screenplay honors for Kenneth Lonergan, its writer and director. “Manchester” is a comeback for Lonergan, whose reputation had been bruised after his previous film, “Margaret,” became mired in lawsuits.

The National Board of Review is voted on by a mixture of academics, cinephiles, and film professionals. “Manchester by the Sea” has earned some of the year’s best reviews and is expected to dominate year-end awards. However, the group has a spotty track record as a predictor of future Oscar glory. Last year, for instance, it named “Mad Max: Fury Road” as the year’s best film, but »

- Brent Lang

[John G.]

Grant Tinker has died at age 90.

So many hours spent watching his great shows: " ... the ground-breaking The Mary Tyler Moore Show, starring Moore, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, Wkrp in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere."