Doris to receive honor from L.A. Film Critics

[Lauren Benjamin]

Welcome, Flower. I hope you will enjoy your time here.

Lauren

[puck]

Thank you so very, very much Bryan for posting this audio tribute, just listing, it's really great, wonderful to hear such lovely words about Miss Day, especially by Norman Jewison, and to hear Miss Day voice. Thank you again.

[Ania]

LAFCA 37th Annual Awards Ceremony video


Greetings from Poland:) Ania

[Doris Martin]

LAFCA 37th Annual Awards Ceremony video


Greetings from Poliand:) Ania

My darling..it is fantastic.......Yhank you....

[Ania]

LAFCA 37th Annual Awards Ceremony video


Greetings from Poliand:) Ania

My darling..it is fantastic.......Yhank you....

The pleasure is mine page:)


Greetings from Poliand:) Ania

[HilB126]

Ah! I'm glad it finally came up! I was waiting for it to pop up on the UStream channel. Thank for posting the link!

[puck]

Wonderful, Ania, thank you so very much, but is there anyone how knows how to record it.

[howard]

What a wonderful video. Kept me smiling from ear to ear. Thanks so much for posting.

[webmaster]

Howard, have you dyed your hair or is that a wig you are wearing?

[ray]

Bryan thank you so much for posting this so I could hear it! I was in Orlando and just now heard this fantastic tribute! The world should hear and see this!!! It should have been televised!!!! I hope we hear more from Doris because we all Love her and need her to know this as I am sure she does now more than ever! Of course we all want to see her but to know she was part of this great tribute is more than we could have hoped for.

[Jas1]

Was great to see the actual award show - fabulous! Thanks for posting the links.

[Toby_Martin]

A big thank you for posting the video Ania! I'm glad that they edited it to cut out the feedback from the skype malfunction! Doris and Norman were so sincere and tender with their words for each other, and I think the President of the LA Critics was also eloquent in his introduction and as emcee, as well as the the other guy who led the torch for the other speakers and entertainers. Good job!

A side note on Nellie McKay, and her song choice, "Normal as Blueberry Pie". She wrote that song and is the album title and song choice on her tribute to Doris Day and her songs. It fit so nicely and I felt paid great homage to Doris's style, its a song possibly Doris might have sung, don't you think? "I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful guy.." I can imagine Doris singing it! And thanks Bryan for the kind words on one of my earlier posts, we owe you alot for this forum! A big shout out to you as well!

[paul]

Doris did sing the song whose title is "A Wonderful Guy" and is from the musical "South Pacific". It's featured on her "Showtime" album and reportedly Richard Rodgers, the composer of the song, after hearing Miss Day's rendition became very irate at Joshua Logan who had directed the movie version of "South Pacific" for pushing Mitzi Gaynor for the lead role. Logan NEVER liked Doris Day and while there are many stories including salary that have been bandied about as to why Miss Day did not play Nellie, a role she was born to play, Joshua Logan never made any secret of his dislike for Doris Day as a performer. Mr. Logan did suffer from serious mental health problems throughout his life which may explain part of the problem. Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Richard Rodgers and herself a noted writer, told the story about Mr. Logan's feelings for Miss Day in an interview in the 1980's.

[Toby_Martin]

Paul, the song Nellie McKay sang at the LA Critics Awards was a composition written by Nellie herself, called Normal As Blueberry Pie, and one of the lyrics from the song is "im in love im in love im in love with a wonderful guy" I also like the song from South Pacific that Doris sang, too bad Josh Logan didn't like her, everybody else did! Thanks for the interesting comment Paul!

[flower]

Welcome, Flower. I hope you will enjoy your time here.

Lauren

Thank you Lauren. I am already enjoying the forum so much. I am also excited because I just booked my
stay at the Cypress Inn for Doris' Birthday, April 3rd. I always wanted to be there for Doris' birthday and this is the year. My brother lives in Carmel and knows a few of the employees, so I am hoping to pick their brain for some great Doris stories.

[unadka]

Thank you very much to both members and Bryan for putting audio and video to the Forum. I downloaded video with Real player.
I was also near the tears by listening Mr.Jewison and dear Doris. She deserves all these kind words. We feel the same.

[paul]

The L.A. Film Critics graciously sent along a pristine video of the evening's festivities. I am posting the link so everyone can enjoy because the quality of it is so good and it should be seen.

The selection of clips is wonderful........and really shows why they chose Miss Day as the recipient.

http://vimeo.com/35146372

[Jas1]

Thanks Paul, those clips just make me smile so much - wonderful.