Lucky

Things are fine here. I logged in the same as always, no delay. Keep it up, Oz!

The show is doing well at the box office, although the reviews might have an impact on future sales.

Interesting article in today's Guardian about the rise of the Continental Baths in New York in 1968. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/27/sex-disco-and-fish-on-acid-how-continental-baths-became-the-worlds-most-influential-gay-club

I am so out of the loop. I didn't know that Riobard was Bobbalino! Is he?

A favela tour can be quite educational. We talk about the poor and even offer sympathy and money. But rarely do we see life from their view. I was amazed at what I saw and learned on a tour a few years back. I agree that if you are treating it like visiting a petting zoo then it is not a good idea. But go with a desire to know more, even if just about where many of the garotos live. But I took a small tour led by a private guide. It was very much worth my time.

I was so busy cooking the dinner...

Funny story about the deviled eggs. Oliver came over for dinner the other night, and I had bought some deviled eggs at the store. I was going to serve them and tell Oliver that Epigonos had sent them over for our dinner. But, being an old fart, I totally forgot about them once Oliver arrived. It was only after he left that i remembered the little joke i had planned.

OneFinger, the Donna Summer musical opened in New York last night, and I was curious as to how the professional critics reacted. The NY Post gave it one star, saying it is "not hot stuff." https://nypost.com/2018/04/23/looking-for-some-hot-stuff-dont-see-the-new-donna-summer-musical/ The NY Daily News didn't like it either. They say "it drops the disco ball." http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/summer-review-donna-summer-biomusical-drops-disco-ball-article-1.3949934 The NY Times says that "Hot stuff turns cold." It's "the cockroach of Broadway," the Times says. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/theater/review-summer-the-donna-summer-musical-broadway.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftheater&action=click&contentCollection=theater&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront So what are we to make of the ad for the show that quotes the Hollywood Reporter calling it "pure bliss." I read that review, which was for the La Jolla production, and the Reporter didn't like it either. The "pure bliss" line was for one scene in the show, not the entire show. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/summer-donna-summer-musical-theater-1060604 Of the new show in New York, the Reporter says " this tacky little show, a feebly dramatized Wikipedia page with lackluster covers, which was rushed to Broadway following a fall tryout at La Jolla Playhouse that received mostly tepid reviews. And yet it shows no sign of improvements having been attempted. Heaven knows it's not the way it should be. " The pure bliss quote is renamed " jolt of bliss" to make sure we don't think it applies to the entire show! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/summer-donna-summer-musical-theater-review-1105049 So, we figured that the show needed work before it hit New York. It didn't get any. Donna Summer is as shortchanged in this show as her gay fans are. "The cockroach of Broadway>" I doubt they will put that in the ad!

Thanks for the explanations, guys.

Grandma, I have no interest in posting at the other site or schmoozing with the owner of it.

I am told that no social formalities were observed, so it is interesting to note this new post over there from Oliver as he sets the dates for the next event: Hi CS - we would welcome you to the events and you may certainly bring a guest, as long as you have informed me beforehand. In addition to needing to know how many people for the restaurants, and for my chef de cuisine, Epigonos, I must know who will be in my home, as I'm sure you understand. This year I was taken aback by having some people I didn't know about show up at my home on Sunday afternoon. Someone had apparently give them an invitation without clearing it with me. There were a couple who attended that I had been asked about in a polite manner prior to the gathering and I was happy to meet them. Back to Lucky writing: Years ago an escort wanted to bring a guest who did not post. We said that the party is a private on for the members of the message board, so the guy registered and posted. It isn't required any more that the guest be a poster. With all the new rules introduced at the other site this week, perhaps the need to follow rules will rub off on the guy who let these three intruders attend. I am told that one of the intruders returned to Oliver's house on Monday morning and knocked on Oliver's bedroom door- he and his date were still in bed!- so he could arrange a date with Oliver's date. The nerve of doing something so intrusive is astounding.

Sometimes I post something that I don't expect much result from, but sometimes I hope that others will share the enjoyment I had when, for example, I saw this funny and sexy video. I really liked it, but apparently it leaves others cold. Can you explain why if that was your reaction? Thanks.

Which leads to the question- how did you like the novel as a whole? I reviewed it: There is an element of disappointment in my reaction to The Sparsholt Affair.In my mind, the author did not bite off enough. He seems to have held back on the story, especially n the Sparsholt affair itself. At times the novel is captivating, at times quite dull. There are small points where it is confusing. I liked the beginning, where David Sparsholt is admired at Oxford. The tale goes on less convincingly. It hardly seems right that the father would not talk to the son about personal matters. So much communication did not happen. The lesbians seemed forced into the story. Daughter Lucy added nothing. Evert Dax and his cronies were both intriguing and boring, just not at the same time! Finally, son Johnny is left to shoulder the story. We hear that he married, but that section of his life is not in the story. Could not father and son bond at Johnny's loss of his husband? Why didn't they? We are left to feel that the subject of the Sparsholt Affair ended up cold and bitter. Not satisfying to me, but the author seems okay with it.

I thought it was interesting but not funny.

I guess this shows that I didn't do my homework. I didn't need to start a new thread on Colombia, this one would do. Sorry for not doing some research first, guys.

I read The Sparsholt Affair and am struggling to relate your post to my recollection. Are you referring to the novel as a whole or to one of the periods of the novel?

I agree that it may have been necessary to get those screaming teen girls in to see it.

I saw the movie and am interested in knowing why you think it is a great movie.

Stereotypes! You should know better! Dim Sum, incidentally, is of Cantonese origin. Guys on gaythailand.com might like it, but they wouldn't expect a get-together in Boise, Idaho to be about it.

His before pic is in the first post! You seem to like the thread, so it's okay to "like" my post! Peter O' Toole and Brahim Haggiag are deceased, so I didn't think a later pic of them would be in good taste. Am I wrong?

Snooty is not appealing, young or old.

Leonard Whiting (Romeo) is now 67.

Relax, mvan, I was just kidding!

OneFInger, you are welcome!

50 years later, the Los Angeles Times today does a retrospective of the year 1968. What I remember is the assassinations, the police brutality at the Democratic Convention, the advent of hippies, and the last of the real idealists who supported McCarthy for President. But for Boytoy, why not remember the cute actors pictured in the Times piece? A big movie that year was Romeo and Juliet. Here we see very cute Leonard Whiting... Some might have liked Brahim Hagglag in The Battle of Algiers. Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter... Well, okay, there weren't likely any big Asian actors in 1968, but this guy would have won my heart! Manish Dayal... Now how many actors from 1968 did you lust for? (You had to be alive then to make a suggestion!)