{"id":758,"date":"2007-08-09T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/08\/09\/various-sundry-part-sixty\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T06:59:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:59:31","slug":"various-sundry-part-sixty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/758","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry, part sixty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, Johnny… no Johnny…<\/strong>
\n— Although I never did go out to Pioneer Playhouse for the closing performance<\/a> (to roll the dice and hope for a Johnny Crawford<\/a> sighting), we did make the last showing of Raintree County<\/a><\/em> at DHS. Well, it stunk as bad as I was afraid it might, except for Lee Marvin<\/a>, who admirably carried every scene they put him in. I even found the bull-whip sequence a let-down. I\u2019m not sure Mombo thought it was that good either, knowing she would use GWTW as her standard of comparison. There are numerous reasons why this expensive production flopped fifty years ago, but the list starts with 1) Lousy Screenplay. The only way they could have made this picture more disappointing would have been to ask Monty Clift to take off his shirt. Nevertheless, plenty of people around town knocked themselves out to put on the anniversary festival. It would\u2019ve been more than worth it had Eva Marie<\/a> decided to make an appearance, but she wrote organizers and said she couldn\u2019t. I did enjoy watching her on a big screen and imagining her time on location in Danville. \u201dOld-timers\u201d all say she was just as sweet as Taylor was aloof. In any case, I\u2019ve decided that if I ever get a custom phone tone, I want to have a Raintree recording of Eva Marie saying, \u201cJohnny… Oh, Johnny!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurry! Hurry! Step right up!<\/strong>
\n— Don\u2019t know yet if the new issue of Arts Across Kentucky<\/a><\/em> has been published yet, but I managed to get my revisions to our studio Website<\/a> uploaded this morning. To somebody else, it may look as though I\u2019m comfortable when tooting my own horn. Self-promotion is something I can\u2019t avoid, but it\u2019s never felt natural to me. I\u2019d always rather be pitching someone or something else. I figured that eventually the output would sell itself, but, sadly, it doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n

babyaugust222.jpg<\/p>\n

Bay-bo smile
\nto the rescue<\/strong>
\n— Recently broken hearts were soothed when new pictures of \u201cBaby Molina<\/a>\u201d arrived. Everyone in my Clan already knows that the birth mother of the second hoped-for child made a decision to withdraw from the adoption process. Many of the indicators were suggesting that might happen, but it doesn’t make it any less painful for Janet and Jerome. No matter how philosophical I try to be, my soul aches for them. <\/p>\n

V & S<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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