From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mail digest
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:16:49 +0200 (METDST)
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MP: CH Premiere
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:28:54 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/99 10:28:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< I'm not referring to friggin >>
Fargin'?
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: FYI
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:46:23 -0400
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Thought some of you might find the following tidbit from InTheater
interesting since it kind of relates to our guy:
The Manhattan Theatre Club "The Wild Party" will change its title so as to
avoid confusion with the Public Theatre/Broadway musical version of the same
narrative poem.
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Foul language
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:30:54 EDT
Re the current "Friggin' vs Effing vs @!%#!" discussion-- Obscenity is
definitely in the eye of the beholder.
My 3-yr-old once confided, "Mommy, I know some really bad words." When I
asked which ones, he told me, "Well, there's a "D" word and an "S" word and a
"B" word and an "F" word." He said that grownups used them all the time.
I prevailed upon him to tell me the words... though he insisted "You're
not going to like them, they're really horrible!"
The "D" word was "Don't!"
The "S" word was "Stop!"
The "B" word was "Bad" ... all truly horrendous statements in the mind of
any three-year old. As for the "F" word- he said "I don't know for sure what
that one is, but I know it must be awful!"
As far as CH is concerned, I'm dreading a repetition of the fearsome 'IQ'
word-- "I Quit!"
DMNY
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: re: Mandy Ad
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:47:21 EDT
Hi all
I received this little booklet from Entertainment Weekly this week featuring
picturs and ads for the CBS new season and guess who is the only one who has
his picture in it for Chicago Hope???????? Adam Arkin? No!! Mandy!! Its an
old shot of geiger but looks very nice. The booklet is supposed to be
available at Target stores too--so look for it!!
--C
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Laura's Quote for the Day
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:46:01 EDT
Jeffrey: "Of course I'm nuts- makes me a better doctor."
Atty: "How so?"
Jeffrey: "Because I don't internalize it, I let all the demons have their
day. I vent, I explode, I exfoliate all the percolating anxieties which if
left to fester could make my hands shake. My hands never shake- never."
-from the CH episode "Songs from the
Cuckoo Birds"
Laura :)
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Broadway book and Elmo clock
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:13:52 -0700
Here I am....you're own personal Mandy shopper again....
Walmart has Elmo in Grouchland alarm clocks that snap on things...I have
something like it on my purse. They're red plastic..a couple inches long
and are $4 something. A picture of Elmo on it.
And I think the following book includes something on Mandy. I'm sure
someone on the list has the book and could say whether it's worth
purchasing....Carol
"Broadway: Day & Night"
Author:Marsolais, Ken (Edt)/ McFarlan
Hardcover
Qty Avail:61
List Price:$50.00
Our Price:$19.99 (US funds)
Overview: In this extraordinary collaboration, more than 100 of the most
noted celebrities and professionals of the American theatre have written
and autographed personal stories about their "Most unexpected or profound"
Broadway experiences. These moving,nostalgic, and often wonderfully
humorous essays are
accompanied by photographs commissioned especially for this book. Together
they present an unparalleled insider's view of the daily, behind-the-scenes
world that culminates in the lavish nighttime spectacle that is Broadway.
HC, coffee table, 288 pages.
http://www.bookcloseouts.com
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Broadway book and Elmo clock
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:35:33 -0800
>"Broadway: Day & Night"
>
>Author:Marsolais, Ken (Edt)/ McFarlan
>Hardcover
>Qty Avail:61
>List Price:$50.00
>Our Price:$19.99 (US funds)
>
There are a few small photos of MP in this and one big one of the cast of
Secret Garden (MP is small in this photo as it is of the whole stage.)
There is a bit of commentary from Mandy about reading the reviews of Secret
Garden in it as well. (This commentary and one of the photos is on my web
page at:
http://www.mandypatinkin.net/nightday.html
If I remember, I'll try to add the other photos up this weekend.)
phantm
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The Peter MacNicol Page Mandy Patinkin Showcase
http://www.petermacnicol.net http://www.mandypatinkin.net
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: MP: Elmo [Warning: spoilers ahead]
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:30:07 +1000
Hi all,
Sorry to be a little late with this - but the extra day was put to good
use....I went to see it again today and took my mini-cassette recorder with
me! I've got ALL the Huxley bits on tape now! The down side is that it also
records the noise of the tape turning - but that's better than not
recording it at all.
One other thing, the CD was supposed to have been released here today and I
spoke to a guy who does the ordering for one shop. He said it should be in
stock next week. He also said that Mandy's song WAS on it - he had the rep
go over the tracks fully before he ordered it as a lot of kid's CDs,
including Sesame Street, don't sell very well. I don't know what the name
of the song is but it should be along the lines of It's All Mine/I Need To
Make It Mine or something like that. It goes for 3mins 25secs and would be
*more* than worth the price of the CD.
The song has a slow intro bit ['The issue at hand/Is the tissue at
hand....'] and then goes into a faster, really catchy main part (punctuated
with whistles from the train set) that has a couple of verses and two
(different) chorus bits. While singing these he's moving around using all
sorts of things and even does a softshoe bit - complete with
straw boater. There's a part that could have been a natural end of the song
(as the last line is spoken). [I'll love of(all?) what is yours/Far more
than you/If love means never having to say you're sorry/Well....I never
do]. But then he's off again with another verse, the last word of which (in
true MP style) he holds out for 6 seconds! After that, surrounded by furry
creatures, the dialogue goes like this:
Huxley: "So, can you think of a plan to stop that Elmo pest yet?"
Bug: "Not yet, boss, I was too busy listening to you sing"
Furry creature: "You've got a lovely singing voice"
Huxley: "Why thank you. I always fancied myself a singer. I almost
performed in a bus and truck show of West Side Story. They said I wasn't
right for Maria - what do they know? I feel pretty"
FC#1: "And you look pretty too"
FC#2: "If you'd just take a weed wacker to those eyebrows"
The movie itself only lasts for 65 minutes - that's timed from the Columbia
lady at the very beginning to when the end credits begin. There aren't
really many songs in it, either. The CD must be short. (The soundtrack from
the whole film would fit onto one). Huxley in his flying machine appears 18
minutes into it and you last see him 3 minutes before the credits! He's
pretty evenly spaced within those 45 mins and most of his segments are
quite long - only one really short one. His total screen time was around 15
mins, but there was *so much* packed into that time. You can certainly tell
from watching it that he was having tremendous fun - to put it mildly!
A couple of things that *weren't* in it (unless I missed them, twice!),
even though there are photos (at Phantm's site) are Huxley in pyjamas and
actually working the trains - but there IS a part, near the end, with him
in patterned boxers!
Today, the box office at the cinema was giving out medium sized Elmo
posters, when you bought a ticket. Of course, it's just the usual pic of
Elmo (and assorted creatures) in the main street of Grouchland - with
Castle Huxley high on a mountain in the background. At least it's got
Mandy's name on the bottom. Second billing, right after Kevin Clash.
There's also a web site address. I haven't taken a look yet so don't know
if it's different to any sites in America but it says: Preview now at
http://www.columbiatristarfilms.com.au (I put the whole URL so that it will
form a direct link for those whose systems can do that).
Well, that's about it for now - don't want to give too much away. Only
another TWO WEEKS before most of you can see it for yourselves! :) :) :)
:) I myself can't wait until it's out on video (which will probably happen
there before here). If you're wondering why I saw it two days in a row
instead of waiting until next week - today was the last time I knew I could
see (and record) it with virtually nobody else in the cinema. Now the
school holidays are here there will be many, many more than the 8-10
tickets sold each session I was at. (That cinema (within a 6 screen
complex) seats over 400! On Wednesday, watching Lulu at it's last Melbourne
showing, I was the ONLY person in the small 46 seat 'viewing room').
Watching Mandy, on the big screen, 3 days in succession ---- heaven!
If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I can always play my tape
again - if I haven't worn it out by then. :)
SueH
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: MP: Argh!
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:34:16 +1000
I just went to that Columbia TriStar site and within the pages there saw,
for the first time, the track listing for the Elmo CD.=20
1. WELCOME TO GROUCHLAND
2. TOGETHER FOREVER
3. I SEE A KINGDOM
4. TAKE THE FIRST STEP
5. PRECIOUS WINGS
6. SPOKEN WORD
7. THE GROUCH SONG
8. THERE=92S A BIG HEAP OF TRASH AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
9. I LOVE TRASH
It certainly doesn't look like Huxley's song is anywhere there, does it?
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
On that Aust page there's also a link for Limbo - but it doesn't even
mention KG, of course.
SueH --extra glad she recorded the Huxley bits!
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