Scripts Lesson 28

Extra Work: A spoonful of Sugar: Mary Poppins the musical (in your CD)


Script.

Don: Hello, I’m Don Dahler, welcome to 20/20 in touch, our weekday webcast. These days, if you have a TV, you probably come across that stern task master with a heart of gold: Supper Nanny. But what about to take you back in time to the original nanny: Mary Poppins: only now making its debut on Broadway in a lavish new musical : here’s Bob Brown.

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Bob: Do you remember seeing the film when you were young?

Ashley: Oh yeah, I watched that movie one million times

Bob: To listen to Ashley Brown you wouldn’t think it first that this 24-year old from Gulf Breeze, Florida would be the one to inherit this iconic role: the perfect British Nanny with the perfect British accent.

Julie: “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun”.

Bob: People do hear your Florida accent when you talk. And you’re playing a proper British nanny

Ashley: Uh-huh.

Bob: How do you go back and forth between the two?

Ashley: I think it’s just something you learn.

Bob: Ashley Brown, like the character she plays Is wise beyond her years. Talented in surprising ways. She has vocal trained since childhood, she already has played the role of Belle in “Beauty and the Beast”. And it was in her dressing room during that production that Tom Schumacher, the head of Disney Theatricals told her she has gotten the role of a lifetime:

Tom: And I walked in the door and up the stairs to the dressing room

Ashley: He umh, you know why I’m here, right? And I said, no, but I’m feeling sick, you’d better tell me

Tom: And then there was much screaming from her and I left but I said “keep this a secret.

Ashley: And I collapsed on the floor and he held me for about two minutes, I was bawling,

Tom: By the time I got down to 46th street I think everybody on Broadway had already heard.

Bob: 80 years ago Mary Poppins made her first appearance in the story as the creation of a writer named PL Travers whose own strange story was uncovered in a recent biography titled “Mary Poppins, she wrote”. Travers whose real name was Hellen Lindon Gawph spent an unhappy childhood in Australia before moving to England. Mary Poppins may have been cheery, P. L. Traverse was not. And when the Disney Studios bought the rights for a movie and Traverse consulted with composer Richard Chairman about songs that would be included in a Mary Poppins film, she was emphatic about what she liked.

Richard: And she came up with “Grease Sleeves”, Pop goes a whiz”, I mean, she had all these wonderful songs that she…and I had to explain to her one day “Mrs. Traverse, everybody loves “Grease Sleeves, but we’re going to try to do new material for this picture. She didn’t quite understand why.

Extra Work Lesson 28

Extra Work: A Spoonful of Sugar: Mary Poppins the Musical (in your CD)
Video name on I-tunes and the I-pod: "A Spoonful of Sugar for Broadway".

Video name on your CD: "A Spoonful of Sugar for Broadway" MPEG-4 file.

Questions about context.
1. According to Bob, what’s Ashley like?
2. Explain how Ashley got the role of Mary Poppins for the musical.
3. Tell us something about the author from the Mary Poppins novel.

Script
Find the script at  http://englishvillemexico.blogspot.com/2010/12/scripts-lesson-28.html .

Extra Work: How Power Transformed Women's Tennis (in your CD)
Exercise.
Write a brief essay describing the changes that Women's tennis has achieved during the last 20 years.

Find the news report at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29Tennis-t.html?pagewanted=6&hp .

Extra Work: Federer and Nadal Getting Ready to Meet in the Final.
Exercise.
Listen to this news report and tell us what these players have had to go through to be able to meet in the finals (they ended up not meeting then).

Find the news report at http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/12/sports/1247464552756/federer-and-nadal-near-showdown.html .

Vampire Weekend: Holiday

Vampire Weekend: Holiday.



Exercise.
Complete the lyrics:

Holiday, O, A Holiday!


And the best one of the _______

Dozing off underneath my _________

While I cover both my __________

But if I wait for a holiday could it stop my fear?

To __________ on a summer’s day never ________ so clear

Holiday, still so _____________

Our republic on the _______

I can’t forget just how _____ it gets

When I’m counting on my teeth

But if I wait for a holiday

Could it stop my fear?

To _______ on a _________‘s day

Never _________ so clear

A vegetarian since the invasion

She’d never seen the word BOMBS

She’d never seen the word BOMBS blown up

To 96 point Futura

She’d never seen an AK

In a yellowy Day Glo display

A t-shirt so lovely it turned all the history books grey

I’ve got wheels, I’ve got cutter spray

And a healthy sense of worth

Half of me is the ___________

But the other half’s the ______

So if I wait for a ________ could it stop my fear?

To go away on a ________’s day never ________ so clear

Scripts Lesson 21

SBUX at the Stock Market.
Script.
So the market took a big deep which means a lot of folks are stressed because their portfolios are not as valuable as they once were. But know the dial is steadily climbing and there’re still plenty of places out there wanting to give you the bad news but here at wallstrip we like to take lemons and make lemonade.


We see the recent market correction as a big opportunity…one second…

Hello! Yes, I am. I’m on my way there now. OK! Milk and sugar. Ok, all right, no problem.

So, where was I? Right, so these recent market correction is actually a great opportunity to get in on several great stocks that have deepened low enough to offer an excellent entry point. And first on the wallstrip list is a big, bold, epicurus brand that everyone knows about but not everyone owns: starbucks. For the first time since late 2005 starbucks is trading just below 30. Now everyone knows the story of this giant coffee retailer and how its innovating chairman Howard Schultz has taken the company…one second…

Yes. OK, 3 splenda, got it!

So like I was saying, right now might be a great time to get in on starbucks. They just announced plans to expand like 40,000 stores over one half of them outside the US and with the recent leak of Howard Schultz memo, the one where he talks about the watering down of the Starbucks experience, we can trust that he’s not going to rest on his laurels when it comes to quality…Oh my god…Sorry…

Yes! Chai latte, large, OK.

So, since going public in 1992, Starbucks share price has gone up 4400 percent and despite the reason their stock has taken, their first quarter earning went up 18 percent. They’re opening 8 stores a day, and customers all over the world love using their gift cards…Oh my god…hold on one second…

Yes, what would you like Howard? Yes, I’m writing it down. Nonfat, sugar free, Howa.., I’m trying to do something here…Sigh…

So with record stores going away of the dinosaurs and bookstores facing stiff competition from Amazon.com their experts realize that their stores were the perfect venue to start selling CD’s, and the occasional Oprah book best seller. If you love starbucks, there’s a blog for you. It’s called starbucksgossip.com and if you hate starbucks, like maybe a certain video blog that I know that says that the coffee is always too cold, there’s a blog for you too. It’s called Ihatestarbucks.com…oh, my god, what?

Yes, Adam. Black, sugar, fine. They even have 3,000 flickr photos tied with their name, nothing ever wants or cares , it’s just their damn coffee.

What!! I’m going as fast as I can.

Small? Tall?

Thanks, Lindsay.

Hello!

Oh my god. Yes. What would you like?

Small. Nonfat. Oh, you want that iced? Yes, sure, no problem. With cream? That’s really a good idea.



Japanese Stereotypes.
1.efficient.
2.too polite.
3.always give presents.
4.wear kimonos.
5.shy.
6.difficult to get to know.
7.not religious.
8.not interested in politics.
9.clean.
10.respect parents.
11.love American culture.
12.not environmentalists.
13.love electronic toys.
14.not physically affectionate.
15.do not have opinions.
16.quiet unless drinking.
17.intelligent.
18.careful.
19.fashion conscious.
20.love brand names.
21.rarely ask questions.
22.game-loving.
23.play in college.
24.fun-loving.
25.masters of technology.
26.good at math.
27.parents take care of adult children.

Why Legos are so Darn Expensive.
script.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Our next story is an economic mystery. Our Planet Money reporter Chana Joffe-Walt stumbled over it while holiday shopping.

CHANA JOFFE-WALT, BYLINE: The other day, I went to Toys R Us after work to buy my son some Legos for Hanukkah. He's never had Legos before, so I was very excited. But did you know that a basic box of Legos cost 59.99? For just 102 DUPLO pieces, 60 bucks. They're plastic blocks.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #1: Legos cost a lot of money.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Yeah, actually, they are expensive.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: Yeah, they're really expensive.

JOFFE-WALT: So when I met Luke Siegel, Mario Tanassay(ph) and Nicholas O'Sullivan, fourth grade Lego experts, I asked them: Is that normal? How expensive do Legos get?

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Oh, like 200.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: No. No. I've seen even expensive - no.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: There's an expensiver one that's $400.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #1: One fifty, max.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: No.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: Well, I've seen one that's 400 before.

JOFFE-WALT: Lego appears to be basically immune to competition. It has about 70 percent of the construction toy market. And the question is why? Again, these are plastic blocks we're talking about. Lego's patents expired a while ago. So how hard could it be to make a cheap knockoff?

I brought this question up with Luke, one of the 9-year-old Lego experts, and, you know, said something like, what's so hard about making Legos?

LUKE SIEGEL: They pay attention to so much detail. I never saw a Lego piece that has a little bump on it that couldn't go together with another one.

DAVID ROBERTSON: Lego spends a lot of attention on clutch power.

JOFFE-WALT: Experts of all ages agree on this, although David Robertson had a fancier term for what Luke is talking about. Robertson is writing a book about Lego's remarkable success, which, he says, has a lot to do with clutch power.

Clutch power?

ROBERTSON: Clutch power, yeah.

JOFFE-WALT: What is that?

ROBERTSON: Yeah, the - well, what you want when two bricks stack together is you want that satisfying click.

JOFFE-WALT: David Robertson told me, look inside any Lego brick - he calls them bricks - and there are three numbers in there. Those three numbers tell you exactly what kind of Lego brick you are holding, say, a 2-by-4. They tell you when it was made, from what mold, and exactly what position in that mold.

ROBERTSON: So if this brick didn't fit right - if it was too loose or too sticky or snapped apart - they could go find mold 238 and look at the 15th brick impression in that mold so that they could fix it and make sure that it continued making every single one of the 60 million bricks that it's going to make exactly right.

JOFFE-WALT: For decades, this is what kept Lego ahead. But over the last several years, a competitor has emerged, with clutch power that at this point rivals Lego: Mega Bloks. Mega Bloks are plastic blocks that look just like Legos, snap onto Legos and are often half the price.

So Lego tried other ways to stay ahead, like suing. David Robertson says Lego tried to trademark its block, basically say nobody has the right to make a stacking block that looks like a Lego.

ROBERTSON: That didn't fly and it didn't succeed anywhere. Every single country that they tried to make that argument in decided against Lego.

JOFFE-WALT: Lego needed to do something Mega Bloks could not copy, something dramatic, big.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Build your own galaxy with (unintelligible) from Lego Star Wars. Each set...

JOFFE-WALT: Lego got exclusive rights to "Star Wars." If you want to build a Death Star, Lego is now the only company that can make that happen.

ROBERTSON: As a business decision, it was may be one of the best ever.

JOFFE-WALT: And Lego kept going, licensing other properties.

ROBERTSON: There's the Lego "Indiana Jones" series, Lego "Winnie the Pooh."

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: There is a "Toy Story" Lego.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Also, for my birthday, I want the Hogwarts castle from "Harry Potter."

JOFFE-WALT: David Robertson says buying rights to "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter" saved Lego. The money was huge. But more importantly, it taught Lego that what customers wanted to do with the blocks was tell stories. So Lego makes or licenses the stories customers want to tell. And by doing that, Lego has managed to keep lots of kids feeling the way Luke does.

SIEGEL: Like, if you were talking to a friend, you wouldn't say, oh, my God, I just got a big set of Mega Bloks. Like, they wouldn't be like, oh, my God. When you say Legos, they would probably be like, awesome, can I go to your house and play?

JOFFE-WALT: But Mega Bloks can buy the right to stories too. And it is doing that and now owns "Thomas the Tank Engine, "Hello Kitty," the video game "Halo." And, on the shelves for the first time ever this week: Mega Bloks Barbies.