Brought my laundry downstairs to be washed, then headed out to run errands. My first stop was Dollar General. I mainly wanted to pick up Easter cards here, along with a sympathy card for my friend Linda Young. Grabbed grape and lime mixes for hydration, too. I was hoping to get brush pics at CVS, but I didn't see the ones I use. Bought one more Easter card I thought was especially pretty and pastel M&Ms for a recipe before moving on.
Strolled down to West Clinton for lunch at Common Grounds Coffee Shop. They were busy, but I was able to get a seat. Had crumb cake, a spinach-feta pastry, and a Strawberry Meadow Matcha. Basically, a green tea latte with strawberry puree. Not bad, once I mixed everything in. A bit sweet. The crumb cake and especially the pastry were better.
At least it was a nice day for a walk into town. It was gale-force windy, and the sun was in and out, but it was also much warmer. Despite the wind, it actually made for a pleasant stroll back up to the White Horse Pike and East Haddon Avenue.
Put my laundry in the dryer, then went upstairs to watch The Flying Temptations. I go further into this vehicle for Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding Jr about a young man who takes over his hometown's church choir at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Switched to Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies while doing job hunting and bringing the laundry upstairs. The Easter Bunny has gotten sick, so Granny searches for a replacement among the Toons. This is really more of a showcase for Oscar-winning shorts from Termite Terrace than anything to do with Easter. Among cartoons we get bits and pieces from here are "For Scentimental Reasons," "Knighty Knight Bugs," "Birds Anonymous," "Robin Hood Daffy," "Hillbilly Hare," and "The Rabbit of Seville."
Moved to The Berenstein Bears' Easter Surprise during dinner. I went further into the tale of Brother Bear learning about spring and new beginnings at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog for Easter 2023.
Did Match Game '73 next. Gail Parker of Mannix made her only appearance on the show near the end of the year. This is also about the time when Lee Merriweather debuted and Charles Nelson Reilly became a regular panelist.
Listened to the original cast of The Sound of Music while working on my Flying Temptations review. Mary Martin is Maria here, with Theodore Bikel as her Captain. Though I think Martin sounds a bit old for Maria here, there's still a lot to enjoy, including two numbers for Max and the Countess that didn't make it into the film, "How Can Love Survive?" and "No Way to Stop It." Bikel's "Edelweiss" is especially lovely.
Match Game Productions will be honoring DJ and game show host Wink Martindale, who passed away today at 91, by running the week of Password Plus episodes he appeared on in 1981. Tom Kennedy was in charge by the time Martindale and Gene Rayburn appeared. Frankly, their first episode was kind of a mess. Gene was too slow to handle the Alphabetics bonus round, and he kept using long words his contestant didn't understand. Even worse, someone managed to erase an entire round, which Kennedy had to describe to the viewers.
At any rate, see how all this went down for yourself!
Finished the night listening to a lesser-known Rodgers and Hammerstein show, Pipe Dream. A marine biologist (William Johnson) falls for a prostitute (Judy Tyler) in Monterey, California, then has second thoughts. This is a little too spicy for sentimental Hammerstein, but he and Rodgers did provide some nice music. William Johnson's opener "All Kinds of People" does give us a good idea of the milleu, "All At Once You Love Her" and "The Next Time It Happens" are lovely ballads, and Judy Tyler gets the sad and sweet "Everybody Has a Home but Me."
(Oh, and it rained briefly but hard around 7 PM. To my knowledge, it hasn't done anything but be windy since.)
No comments:
Post a Comment