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Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Note the euphemism.
Masking that we didn’t get it done.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The original release poster of the 1975 cult film, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Source (WP:NFCC#4)
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Commentary
Thursday, August 15, 2019
We made good progress last night in taping the first of the "Hey, Dom! How're doin'?" videos.
Note the euphemism.
We didn’t get it done.
Using Adobe Pro takes a little getting used to, even for a techie.
The video, while not quite ‘in the can,’ just needs an hour of cutting and pasting.
Tonight.
Hope springing, as it is wont to do.
But many things went right.
A difficult script was harnessed, I think.
The lighting is greatly improved as is the background and the background music,
The makeup has made me stunningly handsome.
In a grotesque sort of way.
So bear with me as you so often have.
We’ll get it done.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Thursday, August 15, 2019
This is our 496th posting.
Hoping to sail through to #5,000 and then reassess.
Note that our goal is to publish each day’s post the evening before, at 6.00pm.
But we always publish by 6.00am of the day due.
Tonight we’re getting our first video of the ""Hey, Dom! How're you doin?" completed.
Whaddya mean “I’ve heard that before?”
Wish me luck.
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Poodle and the Leopard
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Tuesday’s Dinner posted on
Thursday, August 15, 2019
A simple roast duck.
Simple slow-roasted duck.
How juicy.
How flavorful.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Thursday, August 15, 2019
People consider alcohol a problem.
Ask any chemist: it’s a solution.
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We love getting mail.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Thursday, August 15, 2019
From Kali L:
I love hearing from Sally’s mother. What a true pleasure!
Web Meister responds: It was all of that.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Rocky Horror Picture Show details:
Directed by Jim Sharman
Produced by · Lou Adler · Michael White
Screenplay by · Richard O'Brien · Jim Sharman
Based on The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien
Starring· Tim Curry · Susan Sarandon · Barry Bostwick
Narrated by Charles Gray
Music by Richard Hartley Songs: Richard O'Brien
Cinematography Peter Suschitzky
Edited by Graeme Clifford
Production company Michael White Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date 14 August 1975
Running time 100 minutes[1][2]
Country United Kingdom[3] United States[3]
Language English
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical horror comedy film by 20th Century Fox, produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman.
The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, who is also a member of the cast.
The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien.
The production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s.
Along with O'Brien, the film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions including Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn.
The story centers on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone to call for help.
The castle or country home is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention.
They discover the head of the house is Dr. Frank N. Furter, an apparently mad scientist who actually is an alien transvestite who creates a living muscle man in his laboratory.
The couple are seduced separately by the mad scientist and eventually released by the servants who take control.
Although largely critically panned on initial release, it soon became known as a midnight movie when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976.
Audience members returned to the cinemas frequently and talked back to the screen and began dressing as the characters, spawning similar performance groups across the United States.
At almost the same time, fans in costume at the King's Court Theater in Pittsburgh began performing alongside the film.
This "shadow cast" mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, while lip-synching their character's lines.
Still in limited release four decades after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history.
It is often shown close to Halloween.
Today, the film has a large international cult following.
It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2005.
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Acknowledgements
Thursday, August 15, 2019
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
Thanks to Kali L for her kind comments.
And to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
And to 61+ jokes for providing the material for today’s chuckle.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Thursday, the fifteenth day of August, 2019
I love Tim Curry.
His picture here.
But now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.