Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2005/01

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Congratulations
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:39:22 -0500


Dan Leeson wrote,
>I have been celebrating all week. Gave a lecture
>at Stanford Unviersity on Monday, one at the
>Los Altos Public Library which also included a
>book signing on Tuesday, and a third at De Anza
>college last night.

Kevin and I celebrated by watching the director's cut of AMADEUS -- all the
original balderdash plus 22 more minutes! [evil grin!] I need two heads
for a proper reaction to this movie. One head scowls and points out that
this screenplay is a travesty that defames both Mozart and Salieri. The
other giggles and says, yes, naturally, AMADEUS is historically inaccurate,
and wrongheaded, and perpetuates damaging stereotypes about musicians, and
blah blah blah, but what fun, and what a soundtrack (directed by Neville
Marriner), and what excellent performances!

I watched AMADEUS for the first time during its first theatrical run in
1984. Kevin and I had to catch a red-eye flight back to the East Coast of
the mainland, from Hawaii. Since we normally go to bed at around 9:00 p.m.
and get up at 5:15 a.m., EST, several days in Hawaii already had boggled
our biological clocks. Therefore we decided that, rather than pay for
another night in the hotel where we wouldn't be able to go to sleep anyway,
knowing we'd have to get up at one in the morning, we'd just stay awake and
go to a late show instead. So there we were, half-asleep in a tropical
paradise, lining up for tickets to a movie set in Vienna. The local people
in line at the theater all complained they were freezing to death, at 70
degrees Fahrenheit! We had no trouble at all staying awake and thoroughly
enjoyed the guilty pleasure of the movie--as we enjoyed it again last
night, so there, Dan!

Okay, okay, I'll do penance by practicing some real Mozart today....

Lelia Loban
Gallagher failed to disclose a $21,500 writing contract because she just
sorta forgot about it?! Oh, please. Writers remember a $21.50 contract.
Hell, the writers I know, especially the poets, remember a $2.15 contract.
Tell us another.

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