Roger Lee Leasor
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Roger Lee Leasor
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Retired wine guy. Unretired actor, storyteller, and book hoarder.
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Lexington had a rare impressive fog a couple of mornings ago.
It triggered...
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Cue the Fog………Ack!!
If you hang out with theatre people for any length of time (say 15-20 minutes), you will hear many stories and quickly perceive that many of their stories fall into genres. Most theatre folks have …
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November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Lexington's first and best-ever sports bar......sorta.
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Monday Night Football at the Saratoga
Pro football seems to me to be a fading proposition. – We’re scrambling the players’ brains. Their brains! That can’t go on. – Every third play is either a penalty or a game-stopping in…
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November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Hope from the past...
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All the President’s Men
Phone cards, typewriters, and sharp hairstyles Notes on a re-screening (#9, I believe) of All the President’s Men. Rotary phones, paper slips at the Library of Congress, typewriters, walkies-…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Serious actin' is damn serious bizness.
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Drinking With Stanislavsky
“Is that what you call drunk?” It was a gentle question from the director of the play, delivered quietly, but the sneer behind it was clear. I was appalled. I was nineteen and had never had an alco…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I've been through the 60's twice and enjoyed the hell outta them both times.
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Welcome to the 60’s
I have a friend who recently turned 60, or as he ruefully admitted to me; “I’m entering the 60’s.” My reply to him was that he’s a little late. I entered the 60’s almost 60 years ago and enjoyed th…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Niblets, fast flippers, and serious theatre work...
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Pinball and the Jolly Green Giant
October of 1969 was a golden time. The nation had shown hope a few months before when 400,000 scruffy young people had assembled on a farm in Woodstock, New York and flipped a non-violent bird to t…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This is what not having ESPN leads to...
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A Recipe for Something Amazing
Movie night! A week that began with Hamilton and a Constitutional Convention of dancing patriots staggers to Howard Vernon madly operating (literally) in Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968). Puttin…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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They don't make 'em like this anymore.
I think laws may have been passed.
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The Wyoming Whirlwind
Movie Night! First, sing along with me, buckaroo; “And that ol’ sheriff, he said; ‘Git you early to bed, And always keep yer hat screwed on real tight, In case you git in a fight.” –Ralph McT…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Today's word is;
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Quisling
A geezer moment. Remember with me if you will, a couple of decades ago, when on TV, usually in the evening, during the non-prime-time that local stations would set aside time slots for PSA’s (publi…
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November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Perhaps last night was the beginning of a...
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Turning Toward the Morning
One of my favorite voices belongs to a singer/songwriter/sailor/boat builder from Maine. His name is Gordon Bok. I’ve never sailed nor built a boat and I’ve never been to Maine. Thus, I don’t alway…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I'm thinkin' Mr. Battle of the Bengals is NOT looking forward to film day this week. #bengals #bengalsfootball
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Having just had a weekend of cadaverous flicks...
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Here Comes the Bride
Sometime after my twenties, it occurred to me that I didn’t have all the answers to everything. It was another ten years before I realized I actually didn’t have the answer to much at all. Still do…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A meandering remembered...
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On the Road + 70 years
I think I first read Jack Kerouac’s road-trip opus about 1968. The wheels that inspired Kerouac’s chronicle had rolled a few years before I was born, but I was now in my teens and had been driving …
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October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Long before Acting 101...
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Acting School in Your Own Back Yard
Actors are silly people. Wait! I’m not qualified to make such a sweeping generalization. Yes, I have acted on stage, but as painfully pointed out to me by attendees and reviewers of my efforts as D…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I'm convinced if God had worked on it another day, we'd all be born in a tux.
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The Well-Dressed Bulldog
Movie Night! Monocles, tuxedos, feathered boas (are there any other kinds?), three-piece tweeds, hats & scarves (on the guys!), pencil-thin mustaches (on the guys), pin curls (NOT on the guys),…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Listening agenda on a rainy morning...
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Butterfly’s Relentless Pizzicato
I experienced Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for about the 50th time; three live productions, two radio broadcasts, and countless various recordings. Since I first heard a Met Saturday broadcast …
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October 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Thinkin' it might be an un-silent weekend...
Sing!
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My Un-Silent Planet
The planet on which I live is not a silent one. It moans… …parents of another language resort to non-verbal sounds of despair over their separated children housed in cages in the land of their drea…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Recalling a time of less news consumption...
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Swamp Dreaming
It seems like a good night to pull my eyes and ears and head out of the 24/7/365 news apocalypse, and instead, sail into some YouTube videos of Blossom Dearie, Oscar Peterson, and Thelonius Monk…an…
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October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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TCM alert!
Ingmar Bergman's WINTER LIGHT (1963) at 4am this morning.
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Winter Light on the Summer Solstice
It’s Movie Night in Central Kentucky. It’s summer with 132% humidity; just the night for a cold beer or Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light. I have radically mixed feelings about the films of Ingmar Berg…
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October 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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This was a real nice clambake.
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Earnest Words
Janie and I had a lovely night at the theatre a while back. We watched a crisp and energetic cast perform Oscar Wilde’s brilliant “The Importance of Being Earnest”. It was one our happiest nights f…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Pre-historic reality TV...
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Cowboy Bob and Peyton Place
My grandfather, Papaw, moved in with us when I was in junior high. Later, when my dad was transferred to Omaha during my high school years, Papaw went along with the rest of the family. I stayed be…
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October 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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So...ya wanna be an actor?
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Foxy’s and the Flaming Embers
I’ve written about how I got into the alcohol business (see “My Last Job Interview” in the blog archives), but I haven’t described that gem of a first retail job. It was a tiny liquor store on Nort…
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October 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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From a pioneer in non-verbal communication...
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The Gatton Signals
Imagine being in a play, standing onstage, in front of a hundred…or a hundred thousand people, and not remembering what your next line is. I wouldn’t think about that if I were you…you’d only get d…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I gotta get new batteries for my radio!
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Play-Off Ghosts
In my pre-teen years, in my pre-driving years, I listened to Reds baseball devotedly, especially late night games from Los Angeles and San Francisco. I would tuck my cigarette-sized transistor radi…
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September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Gasping at every opponent's loud foul balls...
Livin' & dyin' on every pitch...
Counting & checking off the opponents' remaining outs.
I've definitely forgotten how much "fun" this is.
I'm too old for this.
Go Reds!
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September 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM