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« Reply #5490 on: 21:41:57, 15-11-2008 » |
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When I was in school, I took to greeting people not with "What's new?" but with a question that essentially means the same thing: "Tell me something I don't know."
This usually got a very interesting response, because it made people give some thought to their answer. Try it next time!
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #5491 on: 23:18:56, 15-11-2008 » |
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Good to see those clips from the film version of 'Rebecca' (1940), although it was shown on BBC 2 a few months ago. Interesting, too, top see Vivien Leigh's audition for the role of the second Mrs de Winter. The novel was also adapted for the stage and opened at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, in April 1940 with Celia Johnson as the ingenue and Margaret Rutherford as Mrs Danvers. One reviewer wrote, "Prism was banished " and memories of the Dame as Miss Marple, in later years, reminded me how well she could reveal a dark side to her persona. Celia Johnson also scored in the press reviews for giving "a show of plucky timidity that was really moving. What a clever actress this is! the child grew into a woman before our eyes." Performances started early so that audiences could get home easily before the black-out. However, if there was an air raid alert, audiences were invited to stay put or return at a future performance. If the air raid alert had not been lifted by the end of the play, the audience at the theatre would join with the audience, across the road at the Globe Theatre (now the Gielgud) and the actors would entertain them until the all clear. Indeed, the Queen's Theatre was bombed and gutted later and remained closed until it it was rebuilt and opened in 1959. I remember seeing John Gielgud's one man show, "The Ages of Man" which reopened the theatre.
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« Reply #5492 on: 08:17:59, 16-11-2008 » |
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Last day of the recording sessions. Went really well yesterday. We have the more difficult stuff to do today. Yikes. No too bad though. Right knackered at the end of it though!! The recording enginner had heard of me!! Like someone else said i am infamous in the banding community?!!  |
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« Reply #5493 on: 14:03:44, 16-11-2008 » |
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I would say that getting noticed by a recording engineer, who must hear hundreds of artists, is quite an accolade! Well done BBM!
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #5494 on: 14:04:33, 16-11-2008 » |
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I remember seeing the Hitchcock Rebecca at the dear old Electric Cinema in Portobello Road.
The only scene I remember is when Mrs Danvers is scaring the second wife with glowing comments on the first. "All her underwear was stitched by nuns," she solemnly intoned, and the cinema rocked.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #5495 on: 14:08:01, 16-11-2008 » |
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"All her underwear was stitched by nuns," she solemnly intoned
Oh Lordy, Lordy, just clocked in and seen that!! Keyboard and Earl Grey disaster!! |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #5496 on: 16:17:49, 16-11-2008 » |
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# 5494 Don B - Snap! I, too, saw "Rebecca" (for the umpteenth time) when it was screened at the renovated Electric, Portobello Road, circa 1980. The old flea-pit celebrated opening its doors again with a pristine print of the main feature; indeed it was a terrific Hitchcock double- bill as "Notorious" (1946) was the superb second feature.
This afternoon, I've just watched an outstanding documentary, "Selznick, Hitchcock and the End of Hollywood" which I off-aired to video in 1999 and am now transferring to DVD. Fascinating - must start a thread, under Cinema, during the week.
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« Reply #5497 on: 16:48:53, 16-11-2008 » |
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How am I supposed to say anything meaningful in 1000 words?!
Gah. How frustrating for a perfectionist.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #5498 on: 18:24:02, 16-11-2008 » |
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Well, the recording sessions this weekend went quite well. We played the last few pieces today. We had to drop a couple of pieces because we had too many on the list! So thats what we had to do. Pity, I liked both of them. We hope to have it ready in time for our Christmas concert. Be a quick turn around. The booklet is already, just about. So any people interested, pm me or email.
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« Reply #5499 on: 21:39:44, 16-11-2008 » |
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Reg Varney has died aged 92. 92  ?? I'm beginning to feel old ! |
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Dreams, schemes and themes
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« Reply #5500 on: 21:45:35, 16-11-2008 » |
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Yes, I did a bit of a double-take when I heard he was 92. Didn't seem possible somehow. He'll be punching no more tickets now. RIP Reg.  |
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« Reply #5501 on: 21:47:51, 16-11-2008 » |
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I didnt think he was alive still! Two years older than my dad!!
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« Reply #5502 on: 22:00:24, 16-11-2008 » |
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'I love you, Butler.'
RIP
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #5503 on: 08:11:03, 17-11-2008 » |
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Life is such a fragile thing. Someone I used to know, recently died of his second stroke. Alittle bit older than me. He is divorced and was looking after his son, only 10 years old. Sounds like the mother didn't want her son. I hope she will look after him now.
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« Reply #5504 on: 09:13:31, 17-11-2008 » |
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Life is such a fragile thing. Someone I used to know, recently died of his second stroke. Alittle bit older than me. He is divorced and was looking after his son, only 10 years old. Sounds like the mother didn't want her son. I hope she will look after him now.
How sad.  That is my biggest fear. Although I'm a relatively young Grandma, I need to hold out for longer now at a pace I hope I'm going to be able to keep up.  Prayers (just in case they work sometimes) and good vibes gratefully received. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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