I weighed 90 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice and it continues to go out of tune for every song.
Around midday I painted with the “crazy in love” pink hue the outside half of the last of four floral reliefs on my future bathroom mirror. On Sunday I’ll start painting the inside halves.
I weighed 90.75 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco because yesterday I forgot to buy Sponge Towels. So this time I got a pack of three, plus some shaving gel.
I weighed 90.7 kilos at 17:55.
I worked on getting caught up on my journal at was still a bit behind at suppertime.
I had a potato with gravy and two chicken drumsticks while watching season 9, episode 16 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup Carol announces that in March of 1976 she will be doing a special called Sills and Burnett at the Met. She introduces Beverly Sills and her husband Peter Greenough, who are in the audience.
Someone asks Carol if she’s ever had electrolysis. Carol says just on her chest.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are playing rock paper scissors when their daughter rushes in to announce that she’s met the one she wants to marry. Her mother reminds her that she engaged to marry the Earl of Shikawar. Vicki says she doesn’t want to marry him because he’s “a yutz like daddy”. Elizabeth and Philip decide that the best strategy is to give in. She brings in a soldier played by Tim and it’s the same one they encountered before who wouldn’t let them into Buckingham Palace when he was standing guard. Elizabeth tells the princess that this man once swallowed a live hand grenade and as a result he has no internal organs. The princess says she doesn’t care. Elizabeth gives her permission and the princess says they must prepare the palace for the royal wedding. Tim says he doesn’t want to get married in a palace but in the middle of the ocean. She gives in and says they can get a boat from the Royal Navy but Tim says he doesn’t want a boat. He wants them to be swimming when they tie the knot. Around this time the princess realizes he’s looney. Elizabeth asks him that when he’s out in the middle of the ocean doing the back stroke at night what will he see. He says he’ll see stars. Vicki hits him over the head with a vase and knocks him out, then they all leave.
Rita Morino does a dance with some of the male dancers while singing the 1968 song “Some Cats Know” by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller.
Harvey plays a disgraced officer and Tim plays his commander at a cashiering ceremony. They start laughing from the start and find it hard to keep a straight face throughout the gag. He strips the stripes from Harvey’s right sleeve but can’t seem to get the left ones off. He can’t get his epaulettes but only threads off his shoulders. The medals won’t come off or the buttons on his coat. But during the whole process Tim’s uniform falls apart and his pants fall down until he final drops the charges against Harvey.
In a bank, Vicki is a new teller trainee being supervised by Carol. Tim is a novice bank robber being supervised by Harvey. Tim fumbles everything he’s supposed to say or do. Vicki and Carol are laughing because Tim hasn’t given them a note yet. Harvey is mad and tells him to give them the note. Tim is nervous and hands Vicki his gun instead of the note. Harvey takes it back from her. The note reads, “Put $300,000 in this bag, Love, Killer”. Tim forgot to give her the bag. He gives her one but it’s too small for that amount. Carol pulls out the $300,000 bag from behind the counter. Vicki starts to count out the money as she puts it in the bag: “$1, $2, $3…” Carol takes over as the teller and Harvey takes over as the robber, so now it is pro dealing with pro. She puts three $100,000 bundles in the bag, plus the bank calendar, “and a piggy bank for your little friend”. Carol and Harvey are very impressed with each other’s professionalism and are feeling mutual attraction. But she reluctantly says it wouldn’t work because she’s 9:00 to 5:00 and he’s ten to twenty. She says, “You’d better go because I pressed the silent alarm”. Two cops come in. One is a trainee and one is his supervisor. Tim mistakenly hands them his gun and they are arrested.
Harvey and Carol are a married couple and Harvey is going away for two days. Carol has been accident prone in the past but feels she is cured. However, just to be sure, Harvey has hired a nurse to watch over Carol for the time Harvey will be gone. Nurse Hawkins (played by Rita) arrives and refers to Carol as a “proney”. Hawkins begins to remove all potentially dangerous items from the apartment and put them in a bag. She picks up a cigarette lighter and says that it’s extremely dangerous, She lights it and burns Carol’s nose. Carol says, “You did it!” but Hawkins says Pronies are always looking for someone to blame. Hawkins takes a knife from the counter and drops it into a bag on the floor but she’s already put the bag on top of Carol’s foot so the knife goes through the bag and stabs Carol’s toe. Hawkins hits Carol in the head when she opens a door. Hawkins sits Carol down in the chair where she left her needlepoint. Carol gives up and admits that she’s accident prone and begins to direct the accidents towards Hawkins just as Hawkins did to Carol. Hawkins gets knocked around, accidentally stabbed, and has her fingers broken until she’s willing to leave.
Carol, Vicki and Rita play dishwashers in a fancy restaurant. Their positions are so low that their dreams aren’t much higher. Rita fantasizes about being a secretary while Carol dreams of being a hatcheck girl. They sing “Much More” by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones from the 1960 musical The Fantasticks. They then sing “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This” by Cy Coleman and Dorothy fields from the 1966 musical Sweet Charity.
Beverly Sills was considered the queen of US opera. She made her debut at the age of 3 won a Brooklyn Beautiful Baby contest in which she sang “The Wedding of Jack and Jill”. She made her professional debut at the age of 4 on Uncle Bob’s Rainbow House radio show. She began to study singing at the age of 7. At the age of 8 she made her film debut, singing in the short film Uncle Sol Solves It. At 16 she made her stage debut with a Gilbert and Sullivan company touring 12 cities in the US and Canada. She sang on the radio in her teens and made her opera debut in Carmen at the age of 18. She was the first US opera star to rise to the top without European training. Her voice type was characterized as lyric coloratura. She sang with the New York City Opera from 1955 to 1980. She became an international star after playing Cleopatra in Handel’s Julias Caesar in 1966. She appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1971. She was largely associated with the operas of Donizetti. She made her Met debut in 1975 in in The Siege of Corinth and received an 18 minutes standing ovation. She recorded 18 full length operas. She won one Grammy Award. Gian Carlo Menotti’s La Loca was written for her to sing. In the late 1970s she won four Emmy Awards for her interview show Lifestyles with Beverly Sills. In later years she became the first woman to direct the New York City Opera Company. In 1994 she became the first female chairman for the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts. She was the Chair of the Metropolitan Opera from 2002 to 2005.
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