From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #272 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Tuesday, September 26 2000 Volume 02 : Number 272 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Richard & Rosie O'Donell...?!?!??!! ["Batgirl of the Night" Subject: [RS] Richard & Rosie O'Donell...?!?!??!! Greetings my friends, Well, now that I have your undivided attention due to my 'catchy' subject line(perhaps I should be working for the National Enquirer!), I will enlighten you. Saturday night...2am(technically Sunday morning)...Richard Shindell....and Rosie O'Donell...How are these three things connected you ask..? Well, allow me to explain. It was Saturday night, I was home alone :O, exhausted from 10 grueling hours of packing 'everything' I own into boxes for a November 1st moving deadline...now, if only I could find a new apartment to move to! As I curled up on the sofa with a stack,(and I mean a STACK!) of Dar & Richard Digests I had printed out to try to catch up, I had the cable on but I really watching it. I just kind of had it on for background.Of course I realize that I SHOULD have gotten up and put a Richard, Dar or Lucy CD on, but I was far too comfy on the sofa. Anyway, a rather silly movie from a few years back came on called "Exit To Eden", starring Dana Delaney, Dan Akroyd and yes, Rosie O'Donell. Well, as I intently reading the digests, the movie went alone it's merry way, I watched periodically when something interesting seemed to be going on. Towards the 'big finale'(and I use this term loosely) of the movie(which of course included a fight scene, some wrestling to get the gun away from the bad guy, etc)...Rosie O'Donell portrays an undercover cop that arrives 'just in the knick of time' to shoot the villain from a mere 100 foot distance. Let me just say that I only know the plot because I saw this ridiculous movie once before, years back. Anyway, Rosie O'Donell proceeds to climb up the trellace to the balcony of a mansion to save Dana Delaney. As Rosie reaches the balcony, she says this,"Sorry I'm late, I got hung up on the WISTERIA!" As I heard her say that word, I looked up at the television is shock. I was quite amused and I immediately thought of all of you, my fellow Shindell listers and how you would probably get a real kick out of my rather insane little story! To be honest, I had never heard of the word "Wisteria" before Richard's song. This just goes to show you that when you LEAST expect it you can have a Richard Shindell Moment!!! Because of this, "Exit To Eden" is now permanently entangled in the vine of my memory!! **Hmmm...I wonder if "Wisteria" is on the soundtrack? Hee-hee..somehow I kind of doubt it! :-) Your friend and part time movie critic, Renee 'Batgirl' Polgar dscully73@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:56:52 EDT From: Gf212121@aol.com Subject: [RS] Batgirl Beware Hey you guys, Renee, this is very important. You have somehow cross-hatched Richard Shindell and Rosie O'Donnell in your mind. The writer of 'Wisteria' and 'The Next Best Western' has been superimposed in your brain along with the boy-band loving pop culture schlockmeister of our day. You need to seek professional help as soon as possible. This may be more than a mere therapist or psychiatrist can handle. This may require a full-blown exorcism. I went through this once before, when I first heard Michael Bolton singing 'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.' It took me a while, but I got over it. Only recently have they let me use scissors again, but otherwise I'm fine. I met you a couple of weeks ago. You seem like a very nice person. Get this horrible image out of your mind before it causes permanent damage, and you end up outside the stage door at a New Kids on the Block reunion, begging for Donny's autograph on a 6 foot Koosh ball. With the utmost concern, Gene F. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:33:00 -0400 From: Elwestrand Subject: [RS] Essential Richard/Batgirl Hallucinations Well no time to read over the weekend so I am late to the essential song party, but of course I had to chime in! I wouldn't choose a song like "The Courier." I find it extremely straightforward, which to me isn't quintescential Richard. I prefer the headscratchers - the songs that keep revealing themselves over time. That is an essential Richard song to me. And the king of those songs, I think, is On a Sea of Fleur-de-lis. It is beautiful, multi-layered, full of longing and angst, mystery and a haunting sense of lonelines, etc.,etc.. But really, the reason Richard is so great is that he has such diverse material and such a range of moods. I don't think there is any one song that could define him. I personally am glad of that! And to the Batgirl of the night mixing Rosie O'Donnell and Richard, I just had to mention that, while the movie was horrible, the novel "Exit to Eden," by Anne Rice is great. It is a novel of erotica, but it is also at its heart a story about true love and accepting your true nature. I would only recommend it to readers comfortable with explicit material. And the whole stupid Cop plotline in the movie is not in the book. No Rosie, anywhere! Now personally I bet Anne Rice would really like Richard and most especially On a Sea of Fleur-De-lis. She is someone who has tremendously questioned her faith and also embraced the myths and beliefs of many opposing cultures.... Uh-oh now I am nowhere near where I started. I'll be quiet now. E ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #272 ***********************************