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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:51:42 -0400

At 02:18 PM 8/30/99 -0400, Mary wrote:
>I love the way Mandy uses food as a prop in his roles - the
>scene of him cutting up the sandwich and making chocolate milk at the
>beginning of SJ are priceless.

I got a kick out of that scene too.  It looked like he was cutting the crust
off his sandwich just like a little kid might do.  And then squeezing the
chocolate syrup into his milk - very cute!  Anyway, it all seemed in such
stark contrast to Duberstein's powerful and in-control professional image.
I think that scene, as well as the scenes with his wife, really added some
depth to the character.  And of course, Mandy's incredible acting didn't
hurt either....

-Char

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Subject: Re: Jekyll & Hyde..Off -Reply
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:00:42 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 11:33:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] 
writes:

<< Beware, however, of the recording featuring Colm Wilkinson. It just does 
not measure up!
  >>
and damned if that wasn't the one I had bought b4..to hear the music..he 
nauseates me

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Subject: Mandy & SJ
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:18:33 -0400

That's our Man!!!  I enjoyed the show and especially Mandy.  His hair
was too short and his glasses too big, but he was terrific!! He looked
good in the suits & ties. I love the way he walks.  They showed his
fully body and his arms are just swinging along like in the Pilot of
CH.  He was great!

Mary Ann

Mary Ann

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Subject: Re: MP - Another SJ Review
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:05:00 EDT

In a message dated 8/29/99 3:53:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< I couldn't believe the TV booklets that came with the Sunday papers...not 
a picture of SJ in either one. The desription is very slight and says 
starring Mandy Patinkin. Both featured the HBO special of Cher at the MGM.  >>

There was a brief article in the Orange County Register, but no picture (at 
least, not one that I can remember). The L.A. Times did a huge write-up (I 
think TT posted the review by Howard Rosenberg, their big TV guy) and it did 
have a photo, IIRC.

Speaking of Cher ... *yikes* ... 16 songs?? And eleventy-thousand costumes?? 
Whassup with that?

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Subject: Re: MP - Another SJ Review
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:02:05 EDT

In a message dated 8/29/99 3:31:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< I just happened to catch John Leonard on CBS's Sunday Morning this AM 
giving a review of SJ.  >>

Thanks for posting this, Kathy. I adore John Leonard (how I *wish* I could 
write like he does!), and might never have known about this if you hadn't let 
us know!

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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:07:44 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 11:19:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] 
writes:

<< I love the way Mandy uses food as a prop in his roles - the
 scene of him cutting up the sandwich and making chocolate milk at the
 beginning of SJ are priceless.  >>

I found that funny - if not a little odd.  Hisi wife serves him up this 
ridiculous white bread sandwich with such a sense of accomplishment, only to 
have his sit there and dissect the crust off.  didn't she know he hated 
crust?  Baby, I'd cut it off for him!

The scene with the shrimp cocktail was equally strange.  Did that seem like 
improv to anybody else?  It felt that the busboy was supposed to clear the 
table, and Mandy had a whim and tossed in the line.  It would be rather 
strange to have scripted it that way.

LOVED the scene with Mandy laying (lieing?  Lying? oh my) back on his wife's 
breasts.    Most of you probably don't know this, but I WAS THE BREAST 
DOUBLE.  Yes, it was my breasts that Mandy was lying upon.  Sorry all!    It 
was wonderful indeed.  As you may have noticed, it was a very tender 
scene.......

(Mandy certainly does look better in person - do you think he was padded a 
bit, or if it was just the usual camera + 10?)

Sharon

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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:44:37 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 4:01:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< He dressed really nice too, right from his suits to his jammies.  >>

*perk*

MP in his jammies?  I can't *wait* to get this 
boole .. er, *loaned* tape home to watch it tonight!!

>> Last, but not least, where can I sign up for one of those foot massages 
like he gave his wife in the film?  ;) >>

*DOUBLEPERK*

Foot massage?

::::::THUD::::::

Bev <---- who believes a good foot massage is really *foreplay*

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Subject: CH articles
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:10:54 -0700

There is a nice (albeit short) article on CH in the new TV
Guide(Returning Favorites) and a  terrific pic of the cast. Also if any
of you read the rags- there is a little blurb about upcoming plot lines
on CH, and another cute pic of Mandy (its in the National Examiner)
Laurie

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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:17:28 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 5:10:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< LOVED the scene with Mandy laying (lieing? Lying? oh my) back on his 
wife's  breasts.  Most of you probably don't know this, but I WAS THE BREAST 
DOUBLE.  Yes, it was my breasts that Mandy was lying upon. Sorry all! It was 
wonderful indeed.  As you may have noticed, it was a very tender scene....... 
>>



You LIE!!!! It was me, *I* was the booby double!!!!

Take it back! Take it back! 

Bev <--- whose boobs got laid by MP [that takes care of the verb problem ]

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From: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: CH articles
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:48:35 -0700

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> and what do these articles say?
> 
> --C
OK- here goes (TV Guide)-
Its been clear for several years that Chicago Hope - the other hospital
series- has been seriously ailing. Now, rather than pull the plug, CBS
has decided on some radical surgery. The show's creator, David E.
Kelley, took time off from writing Ally McBeal and The Practice to
devise last season's ender, in which half the hospital staff was axed.
Shedding their scrubs: Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Stacy Edwards, Christine
Lahti, Eric Stolz and Vondie Curtis-Hall, Taking up residence on the
show will be 3 new surgeons (played by Carla Gugino, Lauren Holly, and
in a rare TV turn, Barbara Hershey.) Former series star Mandy Patinkin,
who returned last May just in time for his character, Jeffrey Geiger, to
order the hospital layoffs, will be seen in about half the episodes this
season. Why come back after famously departing for personal reasons?
"David called me to say Hope was struggling" Patinkin says."When he
promised he'd be a prescence, I said yes in a heartbeat".(Kelley wrote
the season-premiere episode, which airs Sept.23rd, and may write several
more) Surviving last May's cuts: Adam Arkin, Hector Elizondo, Rocky
Carroll and Mark Harmon. " The hospital is once more a major character"
says executive producer Micheal Pressman. "The misdirection of last
season was to leave the hospital and explore personal lives. A hospital
show about breakthrough advances in medicine is ideal for (having) a
long life." Matt says; We have every right to be skeptical, but we
should also remember that this show once had some terrific qualities.
With Geiger back, perhaps lighning will strike twice.  The National
Examiner mention is much shorter- it says- The long running medical
drama brings back kooky Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin) for his
biggest ego trip yet- chairman of the board. The new season opens on
Thursday, Sept. 23rd, with a slew of new characters. Carla Gugino plays
a pediatrician-neurosurgeon who will save Dr. Geiger's adopted daughter
Alicia from a brain tumor. Lauren Holly plays a plastic surgeon with a
steady stream of ritzy clients- some of whom end up in her bedroom, say
insiders. Cupid strikes Dr. Geiger when a beautiful thoracic surgeon(
played by Barbara Hershey) joins the hospital staff.  Didnt we hear she
was to play Phillip's love interest? Looks like she paid off the script
writers to me! Laurie

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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:06:29 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 6:05:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< 
 Foot massage?
 
 ::::::THUD::::::
 
 Bev <---- who believes a good foot massage is really *foreplay*
 
  >>
not to be too open here, but my hubby and  I always do foot rubs.believe 
me..it AIN'T foreplay.....

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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:17:24 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/1999 8:10:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< 
 (Mandy certainly does look better in person - do you think he was padded a 
 bit, or if it was just the usual camera + 10?)
 
 Sharon >>

I think it was the collar making him look jowly. He doesnt have the longest 
neck, so it looks that way in higher collars (also probably why he doesnt 
like to wear shirts with collars). The glasses and the short hair all 
contributed to the rounder face look--typical Washington power nerd 
look--maybe thats what Duberstein looks like?

--C

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Subject: Re: CH articles
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:40:59 -0800

At 8:48 PM -0700 8/30/99, Laurie wrote:
>Cupid strikes Dr. Geiger when a beautiful thoracic surgeon(
>played by Barbara Hershey) joins the hospital staff.  Didnt we hear she
>was to play Phillip's love interest? Looks like she paid off the script
>writers to me! Laurie

That was what was reported a couple of years ago in the press--when Geiger
was not on the show.

If Geiger is paired with Hershey, I just hope they do it right.

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Subject: MP:  Diaries of Adam & Eve
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:45:30 -0800

I think Carol posted about Amazon.com taking advance orders on Diaries of
Adam & Eve on cassette.  I've heard again from the publisher and he said
that the audiobook will also be released on CD on September 15.    So if
you'd prefer the CD, keep that in mind.  The book was supposed to be
released through Audio Editions label, but will now be released directly by
Fair Oaks Audio.

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From: [email protected]
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Subject: CH Articles
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:26:10 EDT

Laurie, thanks for posting these two articles.

I love how the whole supposed point of bringing Geiger back is to return the 
focus of Hope to the hospital and away from personal concerns and then we get 
the preinfo:


<>

Hum, sounds personal to me.  I'm not complaining mind you.  Ok, maybe I am.  
I mean, how much does this little girl have to go through?  She's six.  Had 
major heart surgery.  Abandoned by mother.  Adopted father blown to bits by 
bad guys.  Now a brain tumor.  How about just a few scenes of her and Jeffrey 
playing with trains or rolling around in the park or something ... maybe a 
nice scene at the beach in swim suits...?   

<>

Hum, again sounds personal.  Definitely works for me  ;)  Are we all writing 
the love scenes in our minds at this moment?  

Wendy  

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Subject: Re:Cher-off
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:36:47 -0700

Bev wrote:
>Speaking of Cher ... *yikes* ... 16 songs?? And eleventy-thousand costumes??
>Whassup with that?

Missed it...was watching some other political thing on TV at the same time.

I saw Cher in concert a couple weeks ago...a wide cross-section of fans
there and everybody loved her. She says she's not a singer, but an
entertainer....over-the-top definitely. But she laughs at herself. I could
relate to one line...she said she had to cover a 35 year long career and
she wasn't even 35  :>   Carol



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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:11:52 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 8:16:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< not to be too open here, but my hubby and  I always do foot rubs.believe 
 me..it AIN'T foreplay.....
  >>


Not to give all the secrets away here - but anything would be considered 
foreplay...........though since there ain't much afterplay, not sure what 
fore we'd be playing......

Sharon

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Subject: Re: Jekyll & Hyde..Off -Reply
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:04:55 -0700

Dinny wrote:

"however good Chuck Wagner, or Robert Cuccioli, the original stage J/H,
might be, they are not Anthony Warlow, who sings the role with great power
(and breath control -- NOBODY can hold a note like this man, not even, er,
The Man. ;)) "


AHA!!!  I have been wondering about this!  I just got a CD called "The Main
Event" with Olivia Newton-John, Anthony Warlow, and somebody else.  I was
listening to it in my car and Anthony Warlow started singing "This Is The
Moment".  I almost drove the car off the road, it was so phenomenal!  And I
thought who IS this guy?  And then I didn't ever want to play anything else
on the whole album (I think it's his only solo).  You are right, Dinny, he
has an incredible voice and I found myself thinking the same thing, that not
even Mandy could have sung that song better.  (I can't believe I said that!)

And now I have been hearing radio ads for J&H (which I'm seeing this
Thursday by the way) and I heard this song so I figured out it's from J&H.
But whoever is singing it is such a pale comparison to Anthony Warlow that
I'm afraid I will be disappointed come Thursday night.

So who IS this Anthony Warlow?

/ Joanne




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Subject: Re: Strange Justice thoughts
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:50:54 -0700

Cmg wrote:

>I think it was the collar making him look jowly. He doesnt have the longest
>neck, so it looks that way in higher collars (also probably why he doesnt
>like to wear shirts with collars). The glasses and the short hair all
>contributed to the rounder face look--typical Washington power nerd
>look--maybe thats what Duberstein looks like?



Well that helps explain it.  I couldn't figure out why he looked so "large"
(for lack of a better word).  I saw him right after he finished filming this
in Tucson and he looked pretty much like he usually does.  I guess they
should have filmed him in a black tee, black slacks, and New Balance
sneakers.

/ Joanne




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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CH articles
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:05:32 -0700 (PDT)

Wow...how much can a little girl have? First 4 holes in her heart and
now a brain tumor? I'm glad he gets hit by cupid, but for heaven's sake
I hope he doesn't get Laurie involved. Looks like quite a season.
--- Laurie  wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > and what do these articles say?
> > 
> > --C
> OK- here goes (TV Guide)-
> Its been clear for several years that Chicago Hope -
> the other hospital
> series- has been seriously ailing. Now, rather than
> pull the plug, CBS
> has decided on some radical surgery. The show's
> creator, David E.
> Kelley, took time off from writing Ally McBeal and
> The Practice to
> devise last season's ender, in which half the
> hospital staff was axed.
> Shedding their scrubs: Peter Berg, Jayne Brook,
> Stacy Edwards, Christine
> Lahti, Eric Stolz and Vondie Curtis-Hall, Taking up
> residence on the
> show will be 3 new surgeons (played by Carla Gugino,
> Lauren Holly, and
> in a rare TV turn, Barbara Hershey.) Former series
> star Mandy Patinkin,
> who returned last May just in time for his
> character, Jeffrey Geiger, to
> order the hospital layoffs, will be seen in about
> half the episodes this
> season. Why come back after famously departing for
> personal reasons?
> "David called me to say Hope was struggling"
> Patinkin says."When he
> promised he'd be a prescence, I said yes in a
> heartbeat".(Kelley wrote
> the season-premiere episode, which airs Sept.23rd,
> and may write several
> more) Surviving last May's cuts: Adam Arkin, Hector
> Elizondo, Rocky
> Carroll and Mark Harmon. " The hospital is once more
> a major character"
> says executive producer Micheal Pressman. "The
> misdirection of last
> season was to leave the hospital and explore
> personal lives. A hospital
> show about breakthrough advances in medicine is
> ideal for (having) a
> long life." Matt says; We have every right to be
> skeptical, but we
> should also remember that this show once had some
> terrific qualities.
> With Geiger back, perhaps lighning will strike
> twice.  The National
> Examiner mention is much shorter- it says- The long
> running medical
> drama brings back kooky Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy
> Patinkin) for his
> biggest ego trip yet- chairman of the board. The new
> season opens on
> Thursday, Sept. 23rd, with a slew of new characters.
> Carla Gugino plays
> a pediatrician-neurosurgeon who will save Dr.
> Geiger's adopted daughter
> Alicia from a brain tumor. Lauren Holly plays a
> plastic surgeon with a
> steady stream of ritzy clients- some of whom end up
> in her bedroom, say
> insiders. Cupid strikes Dr. Geiger when a beautiful
> thoracic surgeon(
> played by Barbara Hershey) joins the hospital staff.
>  Didnt we hear she
> was to play Phillip's love interest? Looks like she
> paid off the script
> writers to me! Laurie
> 

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Subject: Re: Jekyll & Hyde..Off -Reply -Reply (longish)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:50:33 -0500

>>> "Joanne Cochran"  >08/31/99 03:04am >>>

>So who IS this Anthony Warlow?



He is Australia's best kept secret. He alternates among opera, musical =
theatre, and stage shows like "The Main Event" with blissful ease. Off the =
top of my head, He's played Enjolras, the Phantom, Henry Higgins, Sky =
Masterson, Archibald Craven (he says when he heard the Bway cast album he =
wept) and a showstopping Teen Angel in Grease, as well as Eisenstein (I =
think that's his name, the guy who's going to jail) in Die Fledermaus and =
Archibald Grosvenor in Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience. He's currently =
gearing up for Papageno in Magic Flute. Aside from the concept album of =
J&H (and yes, "This Is the Moment" is from that - how about that last =
AWESOME note?) he's done 4 solo albums, a sort of Dream Cast Les Mis (not =
the one that was on PBS, though some of the same people are on it), a =
highlights album of the Australian Secret Garden (which, despite him, =
pales in comparison with the Broadway one, IMHO), the Main Event album, =
and a CD single containing his two songs from Grease (a very funny "Beauty =
School Dropout" and his encore, a pristine "My Prayer").

As you have noticed, Joanne, he has the most extraordinary voice. On one =
of his solo albums (show tunes, yum!) he sings several favorites and =
actually sounds very much like the person who originated them. On =
"Impossible Dream" he sounds like Richard Kiley, an "I Won't Send Roses" =
he sounds like Robert Preston, and on "Fate" he sounds like Alfred Drake. =
In other words he actually changes the quality of his voice. Amazing! It =
helps that he chooses some wonderful material, and has impeccable taste in =
the way he interprets it. He also has wonderful comic timing. There's a =
b--tl-g v-d-- of snippets of talk show appearances etc. that show him to =
be utterly endearing. And he can cook!

On a personal note, he's just shy of 40 and cute as a button. In '94 I =
believe he had a scary bout of lymphoma, which cost him his gorgeous =
surfer dude hair. (This is what you hear him referring to just before he =
and Olivia do the medley in tribute to dead people.) He's married and has =
a cute little girl, and it's partly because of his little family that he =
hasn['t come here and BLOWN AWAY Broadway audiences (does that sound a =
teeny bit familiar?) When the Broadway Pimpernel was in the planning =
stages, he was mentioned for the part of Percy, and he would have been =
fabulous. Aside from the vocal talents and the cuteness, he moves like a =
dream and has very cute legs.

If you want to see and hear more of him, this is what's out there:

Solo albums:
On the Boards (show tunes)
Centre Stage (show tunes)
Midnight Dreaming (ballads)
Back in the Swing (swing and swing ballads)
Best of Act I (greatest hits)

CD Single: Beauty School Dropout/My Prayer

Shows:
The Main Event
The Secret Garden (Aus highlights)
Les Mis (it's called the International Cast or something, featuring Gary =
Morris as Valjean, Philip Quast - another goodie, who WAS in the PBS =
version - as Javert, etc. and comes in both a complete and highlights =
version)

Videos:
Die Fledermaus
Patience
The Main Event

There is MUCH more of him on the Main Event video than there was on the =
CD, by the way. Also, most of these are only available in PAL format, so =
you have to get them converted unless you have a dual format VCR. But I =
think they're well worth the trouble. You can usually find a small =
selection of these at the biggie chains like Virgin, Tower and HMV. But =
there's also a wonderful place in Australia, Readings, that has just about =
everything and ship fast and cheap. (Most of the single-disc records are =
$19.95 Australian, and the Aus dollar tends to be worth about 65 cents =
these days.) Their online store URL is http://www.readings.com.au/mnews.htm=


I know if I've left anything out Sue will jump in here...

DR





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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CH articles
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:56:31 EDT

In a message dated 8/30/99 7:55:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< The National Examiner mention is much shorter- it says- The long running 
medical drama brings back kooky Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin) for his 
biggest ego trip yet- chairman of the board. >>

A *pox* on whoever wrote this! 

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