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Thank You Moe Lausier

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Moe Lausier has to be thanked for playing Jerry Williams reading of Dylan Thomas' A child's Christmas in Wales
today on his WRKO program. It was a real class act and also makes it clear how talented Jerry was and how missed he is still today.

Thanks Moe and Merry Christmas.
 
is it the "Tom & Ellen" show on RKO earlier today. Very interesting interview - i think it was with
Karolyn Grimes - ZuZu Bailey from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342216/

if RKO could have more interesting talk like this instead of the typical Republican slant propaganda, we might
have a talk station in this town again
 
yes I also enjoyed the interview with Karolyn Grimes.

how about if they put a little Democratic slant propaganda in? Oh Marjorie...
 
She's making the rounds this Holiday season...

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20061223/116687088000.html

At 66, 'Zuzu' Thinks Life Is Wonderful
Saturday December 23 2:48 AM ET

Karolyn Grimes jokes that she left her coat open, like her character Zuzu Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life." A more likely culprit is the holiday crunch of appearances by the former child actress from a Victorian festival in Puyallup, Wash., to the Colorado Country Christmas Show and now to Seneca Falls, which claims to be the inspiration for director Frank Capra's mythical Bedford Falls.

Grimes, one of about seven surviving actors from the movie, says she's had troubled souls approach her sobbing at her appearances. She inspires smiles when she passes out a rose petal.

"I really feel like Zuzu is kind of a mission maybe, I don't know," Grimes says. "I think that there is a higher power at work and that I had to go through a lot of adverse situations in my life to understand other people's pain."
 
Casablanca said:
Moe Lausier has to be thanked for playing Jerry Williams reading of Dylan Thomas' A child's Christmas in Wales
today on his WRKO program. It was a real class act and also makes it clear how talented Jerry was and how missed he is still today.

Thanks Moe and Merry Christmas.
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If you ever get the chance to see "A Child's Christmas....." performed, please don't pass it up.

Now I'm wondering how many of you harbor the Caedmon Records LP of Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" and have actually listened to it? It's very, very British and has to be heard about 3-times to get all the references and laughs.

Dr. Bill Read (was at B.U. CLA in the 60's) was a personal friend of Thomas' and introduced some of his classes to that wonderful recording!
 
Actually, I have heard some of those recordings. Thomas is difficult to understand. Always wondered if it was his Welch accent or he was just drunk when he recorded it. Also, wrote a thesis in college on Dylan Thomas... That drove me right into broadcasting ;)
 
Casablanca said:
Actually, I have heard some of those recordings. Thomas is difficult to understand. Always wondered if it was his Welch accent or he was just drunk when he recorded it. Also, wrote a thesis in college on Dylan Thomas... That drove me right into broadcasting ;)
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It was a sad story.

Thomas was brought to New York by a civic group that ran 'The Poetry Center" to read in an on-stage production (reader's theater) of "Under Milk Wood". The very first night was regarded as practice and there was to be a formal recording session in a few days. Fortunately somebody left an old "Steelman" reel-to-reel recorder running with a microphone just lying on the stage. These were terrible machines; used only tiny reels and ran, as I recall, at 1-7/8 IPS. Fortunately there was no music in the production!

At any rate, though alcohol might have been a factor in what was to come, it was claimed that Thomas was (as rarely happened) stone cold sober for the performance. Not long after he was struck and killed by a car (some say a taxi) so the formal recording was never done. This accounts for much of the understandability problem. His Welsh accent IS noticable but nothing compared with that you'll hear, to this day, in Wales.

I have seen "Milk Wood" done on stage several times, including one attempt at turning it into a play with motion. The best, though, features readers on high stools, wearing black pants, shoes, socks and white shirts or blouses. Those not actually reading turn their back to the audience. Lighting involves a single spotlight for each reader but the light is turned on only when an individual is actually reading, facing the audience. When rapid "conversation" is happening a really good performance will have the spot on the reader immediately speaking turned up full; on the other participants in the "conversation" dimmed until they speak, etc.

It turns a rather flat radio play (as far as the live audience is concerned) into something really dramatic.

Funny story, too, though there really is no story; just slices of life in the tiny village of Llareggub which we all know, is that most British of curses turned backward!
 
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