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Post by Cate on Dec 2, 2005 2:26:18 GMT -5
OK I need to vent. WHY does it have to tell everyone you have modified your post? Seriously. Sometimes you just need to correct some spelling... add something. It makes you look like a complete OCD case. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. ;D
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Dec 2, 2005 2:43:21 GMT -5
That's funny. I had that very same problem when I just made my last few posts. For the life of me I couldn't spell the word 'remember'. I modified it THREE times! And every single time I kept thinking you all would be like: "Great, what does this kid know? She can't even spell/type/form sentences!" But I know you guys wouldn't, you're cool like that. ;D . You're not alone, boyo.
Yepper!!! You described me perfectly, CC!!!! (Has anyone ever called you that? It reminds me of CC Babcock from "The Nanny") I guess I have to learn to not read this in the library when people are within like....a mile range of me. Yup, that's how loud I CAN SQUEAL. ;D Oh, Kate is just a trip and a half. I can look at her and just get all of these emotions stirred up inside of me, I can't help it.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Dec 2, 2005 2:48:24 GMT -5
There it goes again with the dang 'Edit'!!! All I added was the last few sentences!! *cough*stupidpointlesseditstatement*cough*
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Post by gypsygem81 on Dec 2, 2005 7:21:55 GMT -5
Am I ruining this book for the ones who haven't read it? Let me know... and I'll stop. It's just so wonderful. ;D Except for the parts where Prideaux goes on for a chapter at a time about some TV movie he wants to do. Absolutely not! I love reading these things! I think I'll see if I can find this book online for my mother to get for me for Christmas as she keeps asking me what I want. I love the frantic waving story!!! And yes, the modification thing is annoying! Love Gem
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Post by Cate on Dec 2, 2005 13:19:27 GMT -5
Yeah, people call me CC because those are my initials! ;D I never thought of CC Babcock though... lol I always think of CC Bloom from Beaches
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Post by Shaun on Dec 2, 2005 16:07:06 GMT -5
I'm too much of a perfectionist to let my mistakes go unedited. But seriously, why does it have to say if you've made a modification to your post? Nobody cares. Oh and I also preview my posts before posting them on the forum....I'm so uptight.
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Post by Cate on Dec 2, 2005 16:29:50 GMT -5
Yeah, I do that too Shaun! Unless it's a post like this... short and simple. Then I do Quick Reply.
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Post by Shaun on Dec 2, 2005 23:28:14 GMT -5
During a performance of Coco a woman snapped a picture and Kate immediately jumped up, broke character, and shouted "Who the hell did that?" I'm sure she was criticized for breaking character like that and chewing that woman out, but it made for one heck of a funny story about KH!
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Post by Cate on Dec 7, 2005 20:02:38 GMT -5
At the beginning of a play -- I'll explain this the way the audience saw it because it's funnier and more shocking that way ;D -- Kate gets out of her chair (she was attending the play, not in it), goes onto the stage where there is a man lying in bed, waiting for curtain call -- she gets into the bed, lies there for a minute or so, gets out and goes back to her seat. Anyone witnessing that might think she was going insane (as I did when I first read it!) until you find out later that she was dared to do it. She thought the guy in the bed would think it was funny but when she got in bed with him, she saw he was scared to death. She apologized and got out. I felt so embarrassed for Kate lol Not that I should -- shouldn't I be embarrassed for the poor fellow in the bed? ....Nah....
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Post by Judy on Dec 7, 2005 21:05:47 GMT -5
At the beginning of a play -- I'll explain this the way the audience saw it because it's funnier and more shocking that way ;D -- Kate gets out of her chair (she was attending the play, not in it), goes onto the stage where there is a man lying in bed, waiting for curtain call -- she gets into the bed, lies there for a minute or so, gets out and goes back to her seat. Anyone witnessing that might think she was going insane (as I did when I first read it!) until you find out later that she was dared to do it. She thought the guy in the bed would think it was funny but when she got in bed with him, she saw he was scared to death. She apologized and got out. I felt so embarrassed for Kate lol Not that I should -- shouldn't I be embarrassed for the poor fellow in the bed? ....Nah.... I remember the incident at the time. I was not in the theatre, but read the news reports at the time and did see the play around the same time this occurred. The actor in bed was Lewis J. Stadlen and the play - musical - was CANDIDE. A terrific production, directed by Hal Prince, in which the normal proscenium was done away with and the audience sat on sort of bleacher-stadiumlike seats. Very uncomfortable. Before the play started, Stadlen was supposed to walk out and get into the bed and stay there for at least 5-10 minutes before the start of the play. Since there was no curtain, he did this in view of the audience, and I imagine that like any actor, as he did it he was getting into his character's frame of mind. In the press they presented the event as though Kate were protesting the set-up because it was so uncomfortable. I'd always found that to be a bit suspicious, so was interested to learn when I read the Prideaux book back when that she did it on a dare. Still..... While I'm sure the audience got a great kick out of it - I always thought it was a misstep on Kate's part and an inconsiderate thing to do to another actor. She of all people should have known how upsetting and disorienting it would have been for him. Can you imagine if the shoe had been on the other foot? She'd have ripped the culprit to shreds! :-) Judy
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Post by Shaun on Dec 7, 2005 21:14:56 GMT -5
Kate can get away with murder in my eyes; everything she does is perfection. Yes, if someone had done that to her, she would have torn them to pieces! She was a tad bit eccentric wasn't she? But who didn't already know that?
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Dec 7, 2005 21:49:06 GMT -5
God save the person that would of have had the moxie to do that! You have to admit, though...it's hilarious. Kate is just hilarious...people that have their own funny way of looking at things..you're right, she is perfection on a stick. Just one loveable work of perfection...*sigh*......Bwahahahahahaha I can't stop thinking about how odd that must have been-to have seen that play that day, thinking nothing peculiar would happen-just a play-and then Kate shows up and does that! ON A DARE! Just goes to show you the child-like quality that she possessed literally all of her life. Tsk tsk Katie...
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Post by Cate on Dec 7, 2005 22:13:25 GMT -5
Thank you, Judy, once again for the details. What ever would we do without you? I was surprised she did it because, yeah, as you said -- it was kind of inconsiderate but she got a kick out of attention (pretending to count the seats in the theater so the people behind her could get a better look at her -- standing up in the plane to emphasize a part of a screenplay so the people in the back of the plane could see her -- Prideaux wrote that he thought it was more generosity on her part. Providing a small thrill for the fans... But anyway, Kate was a bit eccentric. I love it.
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Post by Shaun on Dec 7, 2005 22:19:02 GMT -5
During her later life she definitely liked the attention, even if she didn't admit it. How did she feel about it in her early career?
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Post by Judy on Dec 7, 2005 22:37:18 GMT -5
Thank you, Judy, once again for the details. What ever would we do without you? I was surprised she did it because, yeah, as you said -- it was kind of inconsiderate but she got a kick out of attention (pretending to count the seats in the theater so the people behind her could get a better look at her -- standing up in the plane to emphasize a part of a screenplay so the people in the back of the plane could see her -- Prideaux wrote that he thought it was more generosity on her part. Providing a small thrill for the fans... But anyway, Kate was a bit eccentric. I love it. Oh, yeah, Catherine. I agree. This is what made her. This was her. Just always bothered me a bit that she did this to another actor. I'm willing to bet that what we did not read in the papers was that she most likely wrote him a letter to apologize. By the way - Prideaux claiming she was not much of a writer isn't really saying much. Other than this book - and maybe The Last of Mrs. Lincoln - I don't think he was much of one. Certainly while his movies for Kate were respectable, they were not exactly Shaw. I am one who likes Mrs. Delafield, but really only for Kate and Harold Gould's performances. The script is full of simplistic stereotypes and mediocre writing in many areas - IMO. Kate and Gould redeem it in my eyes. But he DID write an awfully good book about her and I'm grateful for that. Judy
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