Symphonious

While reading this article about The Producers, I noticed the following couple of paragraphs:

One of the producers of The Producers, John Frost, says they particularly wanted someone for the role of Max Bialystock, who had a vaudeville or musical background.

“Unfortunately, we don’t breed that style of actors any more and we were very lucky with Reg Livermore in getting him for this role, because Reg is probably the last of that breed.”

So what’s happened to all the talented musical actors? Have they all gone into television careers? I know Neighbours has a habit of snapping them up - the whole show is basically a stepping stone to move between musicals or pantomimes and a pop music career. It’s certainly quite true that a huge number of very talented stage actors are winding up in TV these days, it’s a shame it appears to be at the expense of the musicals.

Fortunately, I haven’t seen the entertaining Simon Gallagher on TV other than in screening of musical productions and surely we can forgive Jon English for All Together Now by now right?

Anyway, go out and see a musical - support this wonderful art form (but winge and moan suitably about the high ticket prices too). It would be such a shame to loose this art form.

And the RAM is taketh away again…

My shiny new RAM arrived today. Unfortunately it appears to be the emporer’s RAM as it looks real, feels real, I assume it tastes real, but when you put it in my laptop Apple System Profiler reports the slot as completely empty.

Needless to say, it’s being sent back. Unfortunately, since it came from Melbourne the replacement process will probably take most of next week. Sigh. I swear my computer was faster with the dead RAM stick in too.

I found the missing comment emails I referred to earlier. I have a spam filter on my email and it works wonders apparently. Probably should put in an exception for stuff that comes from the blog…..

Or not…. Anyway, my point was - why does everyone else get to play with GMail and I don’t? Bah, Ghumbug.

You know, Verdana is the kind of font that really grows on you. My boss has been madly changing every CSS file he sees to use “Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif” for the past month or so and considering that the content of those files (only default templates) are copied into the users document, it’s been a rather annoying obsession. I’ve got to admit though, I’m kind of getting to like it as you might note from the recent change to “Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif” around here.