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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 10/20/2006 : 23:35:04
Apparently an accolade was an expression of congratulations upon being awarded a knighthood, commonly in the form of an embrace around the neck [from the Latin col --- and from where we get the word collar].
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| randall |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 21:57:16
I was briefly the editor for a brilliant writer whom I won't name. He lives somewhere in the Northeast. One day, he needed an advance over and above his previously contracted money. So we, the publisher, needed to read the pages he'd written and discuss them in order to do this favor for him. I took the train to his town and hung with him, talked about his book, then we were able to relax and shoot the shit much like we do here in the Fourum. I stayed overnight at a bed-&-breakfast run by an affable couple, two of my author's close friends, and because of that, *we* stayed up, the three of us, and shot much of the same shit. We had the discussion we're having now. I told them what I just told you. They said, "Jean-Claude? He's our neighbor! He lives just down the road!" They even tried to call him for me. I would have gone to his house at midnight if necessary. But it was not to be; they later discovered he had been out of town. Grrrrrr! [P.S.: the author got his money early.] |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 20:22:45
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Originally posted by Randall
I saw the original production of MACBIRD at Circle downtown in 1967. I had no idea who Stacy frickin Keach was when I sat down, but I sure did when I got up! That same summer I also saw the Fugs at the Players, the Mothers at the Garrick, and the Blues Project on their last night at the Cafe au Go Go. [Of course, for all this I was only 17 years old, drinking in my first visit ever to NYC.]
... and to think we might have passed each other on Bleecker Street! 
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I figured MACBIRD would stir some memories for a LaMaMa mama.
Of course, back then I was La Baby! 
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I am also the first director ever to stage the first act ["Interview"] of AMERICA HURRAH outside of NYC
Good for you! Jean-Claude van Itallie! Whatever happened to him, I wonder. This week, btw, LaMaMa celebrated its 45th birthday with a BIG party and a special performance of Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime. Yup ... Sam was one of our writers. In fact I was in the original production of Melodrama Play ... and am on the cover of the UK edition of Sam's Five Plays published by Faber. Crikey, Randall -- you're bringing it all back now 
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| Gentleman Ghost |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 20:12:20
Um, I have the play in my library. That's about the extent of my experience with MacBird. |
| randall |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 01:29:01
Sensei! I bow even lower!!!!!! |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 01:23:02
What crap is this, "We're trying to subdue"?
Since when do we permit an open challenge
To all the world's security and peace?
Rip out those Reds! Destroy them root and branch!
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| randall |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 01:16:24
I saw the original production of MACBIRD at Circle downtown in 1967. I had no idea who Stacy frickin Keach was when I sat down, but I sure did when I got up! That same summer I also saw the Fugs at the Players, the Mothers at the Garrick, and the Blues Project on their last night at the Cafe au Go Go. [Of course, for all this I was only 17 years old, drinking in my first visit ever to NYC.]
I figured MACBIRD would stir some memories for a LaMaMa mama.
I am also the first director ever to stage the first act ["Interview"] of AMERICA HURRAH outside of NYC -- at least, that's what they told me when my college bought the rights. And, by the way, that college was in Mississippi! |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 10/23/2006 : 22:09:24
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Originally posted by Randall
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Originally posted by Downtown
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Add "For" at the beginning and "...you know." at the end, and it's one of the funniest lines from Barbara Garson's legendary MACBIRD. Wouldn't you agree, BB?
Golly, MacBird!!! I was there in the Village when it opened!! It was a satire on the power hungry Pres Johnson in the wake of the assassinations and the escalation of the Vietnam war. What memories! Stacy Keach was MacBird -- and also appearing was Joel Zwick who later joined us at the LaMaMa Theatre and went on to direct lotsa US tv, including Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, etc. Also My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I'm tellin' youse guys, the mid-60s in NYC was the time and place to be. Youse guys don't know nuttin!! 
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| randall |
Posted - 10/23/2006 : 21:36:40
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Originally posted by Downtown
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Add "For" at the beginning and "...you know." at the end, and it's one of the funniest lines from Barbara Garson's legendary MACBIRD. Wouldn't you agree, BB? |
| Downtown |
Posted - 10/21/2006 : 01:10:42
Honi soit qui mal y pense |
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