Whatever you do, don't "shrink" Petruchio!


--m



On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Robert Jackson <rjax@netcom.com> wrote:
hmmmm...wild or household, thats too many kates, but thanks for that, it
makes me think that the obsession stems perhaps from my identification with
a joint stool...but....that's just amateur "shrinking" on my part i
bet...mere nerousis than insanity, or vice-versa, nevermind.


----- Original Message -----
From: "kathryn blackbird" <kathrynblackbird@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict


> Interesting that you should mention that--the many Kates, that is--as Stan
> and I were chatting not too long ago about how funny it would be to do the
> Shrew wooing scene with one Petruchio and six Kates....six women on stage,
> bantering with one Petruchio,coming at him from all sides as it were.....
>
> That'd make any man a bit crazy I would think.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Barker,
> Michael
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:03 PM
> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>
> Jackson,
> So that's what you were doing when we had dinner the other night.
> Must really be something when you're on a case as private detective.
> I've never seen you so effusive.
> Your guaranteed to have many opportunities throughout the week with a
> variety of Kates.
> mb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Robert
> Jackson
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:40 AM
> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>
> Dodgerly artful?  Perhaps.  But "by our  show you shall know all.  That
> you are like to know."
>
> I too would like to unburden with perhaps an opposite (converse?
> infinitely
> bound?) problem with regard to scenes.  I have for the last six months
> been doing Petruchio wooing Kate.  Alone in my home. On the street walking
> to the subway.  On the subway platform, on the subway, in my office, in
> the elevator to my office, in line at the bank, in front of the bank
> teller, yes, in the bathroom mirror, in my seat at the theater! - I
> confess it all.
> No, not occasionally -pshaw - When I wake up in the morning, when I go to
> bed - Every freeking day!  I don't even try anymore to cover it when I
> realize people are looking at me.  I'm lost in the infiitely expanding
> comedic insights I believe exist in the scene.  (I dimly recall a similar
> more general, yet malarial, winedale syndrome suffered in my youth).  And,
> yes, I am probably fooling myself!  People can laugh -ha-ha, poor
> Jackson! - It's all be done! (yawn!) before! (again, yawn!)- exactly like
> this, I'm sure (although, I've never seen it this way).  "I don't care!"
> (Tommy Lee Jones - "The Fugitive")  I've lost all personal dignity, I'm
> lucky my wife hasn't left me, my son, perhaps, well, he's a little worried
> I guess, maybe, so I'm begging you each and every one of you - I'm an old
> man, for godsakes! --please give me five minutes in the barn - accompanied
> for my safety, fine, or Alone, I don't care anymore - I've got to get this
> MONSTER out of my system!
>
> Thank you for your time. I'll be quiet now.  Go about your business,
> folks, nothing to see here...
>
> -Jackson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barker, Michael" <Michael_Barker@spe.sony.com>
> To: <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>
>
>> That should be on the boy's epitaph.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Ayres
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:00 PM
>> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>>
>> and dodgerly artful;.....
>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Barker, Michael wrote:
>>
>>> This is an excellent point (as Vanessa did make her cry), although,
>>> I was thinking more along the lines of can she handle Jackson?  We
>>> know how meek and mild Bobby can be when being questioned.
>>> mb
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> ] On Behalf Of Robert Jackson
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:22 PM
>>> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>>>
>>> Now wait a minute, sure she can handle Vanessa but can she handle
>>> Terry??  A
>>> question to be asked!
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Barker, Michael" <Michael_Barker@spe.sony.com>
>>> To: <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:02 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am on it. Will call her tonight.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James
>>>> Ayres
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:56 PM
>>>> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>>>>
>>>> Go for it, Michael.
>>>>
>>>> Doc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Barker, Michael wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Doc,
>>>>> Just to throw this out there,  if it does not work out and you need
>>>>> a backup.
>>>>> My filmmaker daughter Kate who is in graduate school at Columbia
>>>>> currently, is an old hand at shooting footage like this, lots of
>>>>> interviews and filming an ongoing film production (which is not very
>>>>> different from this).  She shot an impressive "making of" for us
>>>>> when we made White Countess where she interviewed Ralph Fiennes,
>>>>> Natasha Richardson, Vanessa and Lynn R, and Ishiguro, as well as
>>>>> some of the shooting days (when james ivory allowed it).
>>>>> I'm sure she would do this gratis.
>>>>> Just let me know if you want to consider this possibility.
>>>>> Camp Shakespeare sounds like a home run this year.
>>>>>
>>>>> michael b
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> ] On Behalf Of James Ayres
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:10 PM
>>>>> To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Fwd: Winedale video day scheduling
>>>>> conflict
>>>>>
>>>>> I very much agree, Bruce.  I will ask Trey to look into his second
>>>>> option.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Bruce Meyer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Doc
>>>>>> not sure if you are asking for opinions, but here is mine anyway...
>>>>>> I would say that I am fine with having someone else film the
>>>>>> "special
>>>>>> footage". From my perspective, I would like to hear and preserve
>>>>>> candid
>>>>>> conversation and personal connection, not merely the "performance".
>>>>>> For
>>>>>> me, it has always been about the process and the people and not
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> do in front of the audience....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> James Ayres <jayres@cvctx.com> 6/23/2010 6:56 PM >>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: CURTIS LEITKO <curtis.leitko@mac.com>
>>>>>>> Date: June 23, 2010 9:15:59 AM PDT
>>>>>>> To: James Ayres <jayres@cvctx.com>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Winedale video day scheduling conflict
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Doc,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a big film shoot in Washington DC on August 11th,12th, and
>>>>>>> 13th. I have the Winedale shoot down for the 12, 13, and 14th of
>>>>>>> August. Obviously there is a two day overlap. I will not be able
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> video Winedale alumni activities on the 12th and 13th of August
>>>>>>> personally. Depending on what you and the others want in the
>>>>>>> special
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> footage I could get someone to video for me on those days. I am
>>>>>>> assuming the actual performance is on Saturday the 14th. If so, I
>>>>>>> can still personally video that. So our first option is to cut the
>>>>>>> two days of special footage (12th, 13th) and just have the
>>>>>>> performance on the DVD. The second option would be for me to get
>>>>>>> someone else to video special footage (12th, 13th) and I video the
>>>>>>> performance on Saturday the 14th. The third option would be for
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> alumni group to video each other. I can take that video and mix it
>>>>>>> into the DVD. I will adjust our cost for what ever we diced on. It
>>>>>>> will most likely be less now that I can only be there for one
>>>>>>> day. I
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> will understand if you and the others want to go with someone that
>>>>>>> can produce the hole thing in its entirety. Just let me know what
>>>>>>> you think. I am sorry about this. I just found out about this
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> project in Washington DC today at work.
>>>>>>> Curtis Trey Leitko
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> XL Films  ❘  XL Features
>>>>>>> 710 S. 8th Street
>>>>>>> Richmond, TX  77469
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 281-633-8336 studio
>>>>>>> 979-966-7142 cell
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> www.xlfilms.tv
>>>>>>> www.authorsoftheimpossible.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jun 16, 2010, at 05:36 PM, James Ayres <jayres@cvctx.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Trey:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We all all agreeable with your contract. We will pay you $1000
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> the project. For that we would like 21 DVD's (one for each person
>>>>>>>> performing). We are willing to pay $10.00 for each of those. Some
>>>>>>>> more bucks for you. Further, I could in advance of the reunion,
>>>>>>>> advertise the sale of your DVD to other former students
>>>>>>>> attending.
>>>>>>>> There will likely be 15-200. Would $10 be satisfactory for those
>>>>>>>> later sales?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Doc
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Curtis Leitko wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am planing on a three day shoot; August 12 through the 14. The
>>>>>>>>> deliverable will include ond DVD with the performance and one
>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> extra footage/interviews. If I factor in all my hours and
>>>>>> equipment
>>>>>>>>> the cost of production will be 2,000. I will do it for you at
>>>>>> half
>>>>>>>>> rate. So 1,000. I could charge a resonable rate on the DVDs and
>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> the rest covered by Windale or we could spread the cost out over
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>>> DVD sales (25 DVDs @ $40). I will be ready to work on it buy
>>>>>> shoot
>>>>>>>>> day. Tell me what you think about the cost.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Curtis Trey Leitko
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> XL Films ❘ XL Features
>>>>>>>>> 710 S. 8th Street
>>>>>>>>> Richmond, TX 77469
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 281-633-8336 studio
>>>>>>>>> 979-966-7142 cell
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> www.xlfilms.tv
>>>>>>>>> www.authorsoftheimpossible.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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