Well, dear readers, I must deal with something that came up and today’s notes are going to whiz by because I have to leave in about ten minutes. I’ll be back during the day, however, and will post up a storm at some point. I hate when unexpected things happen that one must deal with, but that is the price one pays for being a human being in a world such as this. What the hell am I talking about?
My goodness, these notes are whizzing by, aren’t they? I have never seen these here notes have such pace, such piquancy, such verve, such whiz. I’m breathless reading them.
What a shame it is that I must deal with something that came up – today’s notes were going to be the most brilliant, laceratingly sharp, incisive notes ever. Today’s notes were going to lay bare the universal truths which need laying bare. Those universal truths have been clothed for far too long, haven’t they? And today, in these here notes, I, BK, was going to lay them bare, whether they liked it or not. But fate is not allowing it. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, fate is not allowing the laying bare of universal truths. Today, fate is only allowing short.
Here is one itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini universal truth that I can lay bare (well, lay bare except for the fershluganah bikini): We must all click on the Unseemly Button below in order for me to complete these here notes and go deal with something that came up.
I feel like I’m doing the opening of The Pajama Game here. I feel like I’m Racing With the Clock and frankly the clock is winning. I’m afraid my plan of laying bare the universal truths is simply going to have to wait for another day.
Don’t forget, tomorrow is Ask BK Day, so I hope you are preparing your excellent questions and I hope some of them involve some universal truths. If not, maybe they can involve some paramount truths, or some other movie studio truths, like perhaps some miramax truths.
I have watched a couple of movies on DVD and I shall have a report for you in tomorrow’s lengthy notes, because today I must deal with something that came up unexpectedly. Tomorrow’s notes will be lacerating and incisive, not necessarily in that order.
Look at this, dear readers, look at this feat of sheer magic – I have come back from dealing with what I had to deal with and I am inserting this paragraph within notes which were already written. Isn’t that amazing? Isn’t that just too too. The reason for inserting this here paragraph within notes which were already written is to inform you of our handy-dandy Unseemly Trivia Contest winners. First, the question:
As far as I know (which apparently isn’t far – since you dear readers are always coming up with alternate answers I had no idea could be right) between the years 1950 and 1980 there was only one instance of a well-known play becoming a well-known musical. Ha, you say and ha I say right back because I am not finished with the question. The point is this: in hopefully only this one instance has the original play and its musical version been directed by the same person. In other words, the director of the play was also the director of the musical. To make it clear, the person who directed the play was later hired to perform that same duty on the musical.
Name the play. Name the musical. Name the director.
Bonus question:
New York City Center would sometimes do short revivals of musicals, sometimes just a couple of years after their initial runs. Strange, but true. Hence, in the 1958-59 season there was a sixteen performance revival of Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella. It included some of the original cast, such as Lee Cass and Art Lund. It also included, in a tiny role, a child who would grow up to be a major theater star. Name the child.
And the answer:
The play: The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash
The Musical: 110 In The Shade
The director: Joseph Anthony
Bonus answer: The sweet little adorable child grew up to be Bernadette Peters.
Our High Winners who answered correctly but did not get the bonus question are td, Ron Pulliam, Matthew, Mark Lingenfelter – and our High Winners who also got the bonus question are Robert Armin, Michael Shayne, JMK, Freedunit, Stuart, and David Burrows. And our electronic hat has randomly selected Mark Lingenfelter as this week’s Highest Winner. If he would please send me his address, we will be sending him a handy-dandy sparkling prize.
Well, dear readers, I profusely apologize for the brevity of these here notes, but you know what they say: Brevity is the soul of wit. Why do they say that? And who is they? Frankly, I’m tired of they saying brevity is the soul of wit, aren’t you? If they say that again they will feel the back of my boot, they will. Then they will be saying brevity is the sole of wit and then they won’t be able to sit because of having the back of my boot on their bum. Well, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must deal with something unexpected that came up. Today’s topic of discussion: I don’t even have time to think of one, so let’s take the easy way out and do what we did yesterday, with a different country – what are your favorite Italian films? I’ll start – all early Fellini, in fact everything through 8 1/2, but most importantly The White Sheik, La Strada and I Vitelloni. The Bicycle Thief, Cinema Paradiso, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Leone’s the Dollars Trilogy, and on and on and on. Your turn.