Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, today we shall have a lovely announcement. But before I get to said announcement (and it’s lovely) first I shall tell you that today, in addition to making a lovely announcement, I shall be getting a haircut. Isn’t that exciting? This is one exciting blog, I must say. Oops.
I forgot, more paragraphs equals easier reading. In any case, I shall soon be shorn like Samson by the ever wonderful and brilliant Teddy, who has been “doing” my hair since 1971.
Mr. Mark Bakalor tells me that we have had good “traffic” here at haineshisway.com. This makes me very happy indeed, because a blog needs traffic, or is it the other way around? After all, what good is a blog or a website without traffic? The only thing that’s good without traffic is the freeway, but here in Los Angeles, California, that simply will not be happening. What a boring blog this is today. I feel we need some pep, some vim, some vigor, some verve. I feel we need a lovely announcement. However, in order to read the lovely announcement, you will have to click that unseemly button below, because I have run out of space in the Main Entry Text thing.
Thank you for clicking that unseemly button. Perhaps we’ll find more unseemly things for our unseemly website.
And now, for our lovely announcement: Mr. Donald Feltham will be doing our very own brand spanking new handy-dandy The Broadway Radio Show, right here at haineshisway.com. Yes, you heard it here first, dear readers, we’re going to have our very own The Broadway Radio Show with Donald Feltham (our very own favorite dj). We’ll be playing everyone’s favorite showtunes and we’ll be having lots of interesting guests and surprises on said radio show. I’ll be announcing the date for the premiere show, but it should be in a couple of weeks or less. We’re very excited about this new feature and we hope you’ll tell all your friends to come and listen. The Broadway Radio Show will be in actual streaming audio, whatever the hell that means, and there’ll be a brand spanking new show once a week. Stay tuned for further details.
Last night I took Miss Tammy Minoff (who is now living right here in Los Angeles – she’s appeared on many of my albums) to a screening of a new short film. The screening was held at Hollywood’s historic Vogue Theater, which has been closed for fifteen years. It’s occasionally used by the AFI for screenings, and I was happy to revisit the sight of so many cherished movie memories. For example, the Vogue is where I first saw The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills. I developed a mad crush on both Hayleys and went every day for a week. I also saw What’s New, Pussycat at the Vogue, and, on a more personal note, my film The First Nudie Musical had a sneak preview at the Vogue.
It was a bit creepy there, they haven’t really kept it in tip-top shape, and the Vogue has now been officially declared a “haunted” space by a paranormal foundation. It most certainly must have been haunted last night, because they couldn’t seem to get the projector to work right and after an hour of waiting, we bailed. I don’t know if they ever did fix the problem. My only question is this: Wouldn’t it have just been a swell idea to arrive at the theater early and actually do a test run of the film and projector and sound? They didn’t, and they should have. Not that I’m casting aspersions, oh, no, I would never cast aspersions. First of all, I’m not even a casting director, so what business of mine would it be to cast aspersions or anything else? What the hell am I talking about? Oh, yes, the screening that never was. Tammy and I went next door to Musso and Frank (my favorite Hollywood haunt) and dined. I had the cracked crab, which I felt appropriate.
Speaking of The First Nudie Musical (we were, up there somewhere), I’ll be doing the transfer of the film for our DVD release on next Monday. We are also shooting a faux documentary and doing commentary tracks. My friend Catherine Skidmore already interviewed Mr. Joel Blum (currently co-starring in The Music Man on Broadway) who made his film debut in The First Nudie Musical. Another person who got their SAG card on the film is Mr. Jeff Greenberg, who is now one of the biggest casting directors (although he NEVER casts aspersions, so you aspersions don’t even bother) in television. Mr. Greenberg played a dancing dildo. But enough about me.
Yesterday, someone asked about bonus tracks on Do I Hear A Waltz? and Pete ‘n’ Keely. Of course, since those are cast albums they don’t have bonus tracks, therefore it doesn’t really matter where you purchase it. Also, if you’d like to go back and read past entries, merely click the Unseemly Archive Button.
Tomorrow I shall have another film review (everyone seems to enjoy them) and also I’ll be chatting about a little e-mail response that someone got from a certain company.