Well, dear readers, I’m happy to report that yesterday was a lovely day in almost all respects. I had several lovely phone conversations, I made up a lovely Benjamin Kritzer poster for our upcoming signings (surprisingly cheap to do, at Kinko’s of all places) and I had a lovely dinner with our very own Miss Tammy Minoff, who sends everyone here her best wishes for a speedy recovery (I told her that Mr. Mark Bakalor thinks everyone here is crazy). Because of dear reader, Mr. S. Woody White, who wrote so lovingly of The Smoke House restaurant in yesterday’s posts, I decided to sup there myself. And it was most excellent – in fact, I don’t ever think I’ve had a bum meal at The Smoke House. I ate a Shrimp and Crab Louis and Tammy had lobster tails with drawn butter. First of all, how did Louis get his name on a salad? I mean, I know everybody loves Louis but why couldn’t they call it Shrimp and Crab Arnold? Or better yet, Shrimp and Crab Bruce? I’m the one eating the damn thing after all, shouldn’t it be named after me? Damn them, damn them all to hell! I will bitch-slap those restaurant people from here to eternity. Tammy’s lobster tails looked yummy (but whose lobster tails don’t?) and her drawn butter was very cute. It was done on art paper with crayons and it was one of the best drawings of butter I’ve ever seen. What the hell am I talking about?
We got another very nice review (excellent for the film itself and the extras – average for the transfer – can’t win ’em all) at www.boxoffice.com. Check it out. We’ve been faring very well, review-wise, but I will go on record right here and now and also now and here that dear reader td’s review at www.dvdlaunch.com is definitive – not just because it’s a good review, but because he really understands the film and he writes very well and incisively about both film and transfer. Can’t ask for more than that. Also, if you haven’t read our interview yet, do so, it’s fun. And speaking of interviews, do check out our very own The Unseemly Interview Section, which is now up and running – with our interview of Miss Kerry Butler. The unveiling of our new section, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), set a new record here at haineshisway.com – we had more visitors here yesterday than on any other single day in our history. Do you know what that means? Well, I’ll tell you what that means because you have a right and a left to know. What that means is that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet, we will be hip, we will be in with the in crowd, we will be happening, we will be with it, we will be cooliscious, this will be the place to be and be seen. They will write about us in Time and Newsweek (not necessarily in that order), they will speak of us on E! Entertainment, John Tesh will write a theme for us, and soon no one will be able to touch us with a ten-foot-pole or a five-foot-czech, popularity-wise. Why soon we’ll have people visiting this site who don’t even like this site. Oh, wait, I forgot, we already have a few of those. Isn’t that exciting, isn’t that just too too?
It is lovely to know that people have grown to love this here site. Why, just the other day, one of our dear readers, who was only 5’5″ tall suddenly found he was 5’9″, so he really grew to love this site. We don’t allow groaning here at haineshisway.com. In any case, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell the man in the street, or the woman in the yard, shout it to the world at large that everyone simply must come and join our merry troupe.
Well, perhaps it’s time for all of us to click our collective heels together and say, “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like…” – oh, wrong clicking. No, we must all click our Unseemly Buttons whilst saying, “There’s no place like the next unseemly section, there’s no place like the next unseemly section, there’s no place like the next unseemly section…”
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore. I think we’re in the new section. I am the all-powerful, all-knowing Wizard of Notes. Pay no attention to that man behind the laptop computer. What am I, a friend of Dorothy all of a sudden?
Well, you all know what today is, but in case you all have forgotten what today is I shall tell you what today is. Today is our handy-dandy Unseemly Trivia Contest day that’s what today is. And today we have a guest quiz from dear reader, Mr. Michael Shayne. Here is his question:
This actor appeared in a Broadway show where Sondheim’s music is finally heard for the first time. He would go on to direct a musical whose male and female stars would never appear on Broadway again. However two of the cast members would go onto Tony winning performances and a third would win an Emmy for a ground breaking TV show.
Name the cast members who would go on to win the Tony award and the shows they won for.
Name the cast member and the ground breaking show that got them the Emmy award.
My, that is an excellent question. Remember, DO NOT POST THE ANSWERS TO THIS HERE SITE (DNPTATTHS, in Internet lingo – send them to me via e-mail at bruce@haineshisway.com or by using the handy-dandy unseemly Ask BK button available at most fine pages.
I hope to catch up on some of my DVD watching today and if I do I will have full reports for you tomorrow. I’ll also have a full report for your little dog, too.
Don’t forget, Donald will have a new radio show up for your listening pleasure, some new-fangled idea he’s got, so be sure to tune in because when Donald has a new-fangled idea it is always worth checking out. I mean, we wouldn’t want to throw cold water on Donald, because when he has cold water thrown on him he always whimpers, “I’m melting, I’m melting.”
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must get in my automobile and visit various and sundried establishments. I must sit on my couch like so much fish, I must eat foodstuffs to keep fit and healthy, I must laugh out loud for no reason whatsoever, just to confound those around me, I must, in other words, hit the road, Jack, but I will be back. In fact, I shall be back later today to check on your posts and to take part in whatever lively discussion is going on. Today, in honor of our guest trivia quiz, we have a guest topic of discussion from our very own S. Woody White: What is the first restaurant you can consciously remember going to and can you remember what you ate? That is a tough question – I suppose the first restaurant I ever went to was my father’s, but the first restaurant I can consciously remember going to was a coffee shop called Hody’s, which was near our house. Hody’s was very kid-friendly, and they had an unforgettable kid’s menu in the shape of a clown’s head. I’m quite certain I would have had a hamburger. Your turn.