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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

You mean he’s not telling the truth?

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

Thank you!!

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

Thank you! I don’t think I saw your review! How do I access it?

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:06 UTC

I just read Dorothy Hughes’s novel In a Lonely Place, which bears only scant resemblance to the Bogart film. I found sensationally good – a kind of proto-feminist noir with a wonderful (and accurate) portrait of L.A. as I remember it. It’s more than worth a read.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

If only this was the worst thing about the Times.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:41 UTC

One thing is certain. If Biden stays in we may lose. If he exists, we will lose. Any other reasoning is simply dreaming. History tells us this and those who forget history...

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

That makes me happy too!

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:17 UTC

Some people have all the luck.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

And then there’s Everybody Loves Opal but never mind.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:12 UTC

I don't think there is, but...should we be taking another look at Odets's CLASH BY NIGHT? 49 performances but a terrific Fritz Lang movie. If the play is nearly as good maybe it's time for a well-cast David Cromer production. Anyone ever read it?

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:59 UTC

Happy Fifth of July to all who celebrate the day Kenny Talley came to his senses and Aunt Sally figured out what to do with Matt Friedman’s ashes. And thank you Lanford.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:19 UTC

Appalling.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

Watched the 1979 Going in Style last night -- I'm having an Art Carney moment. What a modest, charming unpretentious movie. A "small film" from that era. They don't do that now -- or very rarely. I was utterly charmed.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:00 UTC

No one ever does. See the Mahabarata for useful instruction.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:58 UTC

I was only 23 when I appeared on Bonnie Raitt's 2nd album, but I still considered myself a rock star of legendary status. Of course I only played on one track. So maybe not. I'm 75 and grateful.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

I wish this was a graph of my retirement portfolio.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

The Rolling Scones.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 02:00 UTC

Excellent work.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:33 UTC

Where did you find it?

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

Happy to say that Broadway's supper club @54Below will be doing an evening on 11/11 featuring songs that are important in my novel BROADWAY MELODY, with a group of terrific women performing. More on this as it develops.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:17 UTC

I stand at the ready.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

Hmmm…

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

Well, it's a pretty good movie.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

Maybe everyone shouldn't be allowed to vote after all.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:16 UTC

Ah, for Millon Dollar Movie. Even Room Service looked like a good movie when I was that age. My first exposure to the Marxes.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

There were two other perfectly good groupings that were rejected because they were not the right ones. I didn't know this game worked that way.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

I'm with you kid. Dreyer is nuts if he thinks we would give up nertz. I still say swell, not to mention the cat's pajamas.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Ran into my first college girlfriend in Portland a few days ago. Neither of us has changed at all since 1968.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 04:09 UTC

I've kept quiet about The Outsiders because I was a part of it, but having seen all the others, it seems to me that it is the only one that works efficiently from beginning to end to tell the story it wants to tell and moves the audience in the process. Congratulations.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 03:49 UTC

Show biz...just show bizz.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

Merrily deservedly wins the Tony for best revival without anyone caring to mention James Lapine, who is largely responsible for the shape of the current show as opposed to the one that flopped originally. If I was him, I'd be pissed.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

Which Professor Irwin Corey translated as "the light's out in the men's room."

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 02:44 UTC

Yes. Always.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

She got all the material from Sol Burton. Or was he the manager of the Morosco?

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

This what happens in retirement.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

Jesus. Watch a good movie for chrisakes. Maybe Gun Crazy or something.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

Having considered the matter as a mature citizen a few years after his passing, I think Sondheim’s best ever playlet piece is The Girls Upstairs. And I think I’ve always felt that way.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

I was trying to order it in Orvieto many years ago, puzzling over the pronunciation when the waiter, who I took to be an Italian but was obviously a gay American said to me, "honey, it's garlic bread." I so appreciated him.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

For some reason I went down an Oliver Hailey rabbit hole -- he was a quite successful TV writer. He had three plays produced on Broadway each of which played a single performance. Three play, three performance. Must be some kind of a record. I did see one of them. You had to scramble to get there.

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@jackviertel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 03:02 UTC

This has always been true.

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