Well, dear readers, now that it is no longer Labor Day, we must, of course, return to our labors. It’s already Tuesday and the mowers are out there mowing away loudly. I have a very busy week ahead, with many things to accomplish. I will have surprises this week, so don’t miss one single day of notes or you will be out of the loop, and if you are out of the loop you will not be with it, you will not be in the know, you will not be happening, you will not be in with the in crowd, you will be in a pool, floundering all by yourself. That’s fine, of course, since “pool” is “loop” spelled backwards.
For those who have been errant and truant, we do hope you are now back with us. Summer is over, holidays are over and we must get this here site back on track. The good news is that we somehow just managed to squeak by and best our best month of July. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, somehow, even with all the errant and truant and people running around, being a bit wild, even with all of that, we still managed to narrowly have August be our best month ever. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? Soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet, but not without hard work and lots and lots of posts and visits. So, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell the man in the street and the woman in the car, tell everyone, whether near or far, whether fat or thin, whether short or tall, whether rich or poor – this is the place to be.
By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), if you missed any of this weekend’s notes, you simply must read them, otherwise you will be out of the loop and we can’t have that, now can we? If you are out of the loop people will look at you funny, they will point at you and giggle surreptitiously. Look at the length of that word – “surreptitiously”. Someone was feeling their oats the day they made that word up. I think today we should all feel our various and sundried oats, because I feel we’ve been neglectful of our oats in the past week. On the count of three, let us all feel our oats: One, two three. Now, isn’t that better, feeling oat-wise? What the hell am I talking about?
Well, we had several High Winners in our Unseemly Trivia Contest, so let’s all click on the Unseemly Button below to find out the answer and who the winners were. If you don’t know that information, you will be out of the loop, you know, and that just isn’t acceptable here at haineshisway.com.
Also, I forgot to mention, if you missed the weekend notes you missed a splendid Meltz and Ernest song, so you simply must catch up or you will be out of the loop.
Well, they’ve stopped mowing and now they are raking. Raking is better than mowing although they also rake very loudly. These must be the Loud Gardeners. Such raking noise, you wouldn’t believe it.
Our handy-dandy Unseemly Trivia Contest was not so easy this week, and yet we had several winners. Here was the question:
In one long-ago theatrical season there was a hit play and this hit play had a rather amazing cast. The star of the show was also someone who had written plays and someone who would go on to win an Academy Award. The supporting cast featured a young fellow who would go on to star in one smash hit musical, one musical that wasn’t such a smash hit, and one smash hit play, as well as several motion pictures. The other co-star would go on to star in one of the most famous modern plays ever written, as well as several movies and a TV series. The cast also featured someone in a small role who would also appear in a small role in the film that won the star their Academy Award.
Name the hit play.
Name the star.
Name the two co-stars.
Name the actor in the small role who appeared with the star in the film that won the star the Academy Award.
Bonus and clue: That very same season, another up-and-coming star was appearing in a musical. That up-and-coming star would end up having a major connection to the hit play we’re discussing. Who was the star and what was the connection.
And here is the answer:
The hit play: The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
The star: Miss Ruth Gordon
The two co-stars: Robert Morse (How to Succeed, Tru) and Arthur Hill (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Owen Marshall, etc.)
The actor in the small role who appeared with the star in the film that won the star the Academy Award: Phil Leeds (Rosemary’s Baby)
Bonus question: Carol Channing (who was starring in The Vamp) would, of course, go on to play Dolly Levi in the musical version of The Matchmaker, Hello, Dolly!
Our High Winners are JMK, Michael Shayne, Arnold M. Brockman, Steve Gurey and ILuvNY2 (who didn’t put their name with their answer – and my brain isn’t connecting the e-mail address with the name). And our handy-dandy unseemly Electronic Hat has chosen our Highest Winner completely at random: Mr. Arnold M. Brockman.
Don’t forget, tomorrow is Ask BK Day, and I do hope you are formulating your excellent questions. Do remember that I can only accept questions up through 9:00 California Mean Time. I don’t really know why time is so consarned mean here in California, but it is. In fact, it’s vicious, time in California is. For example, it waits for no man. It waits for no woman. It waits for no animal, whether large or small. Time has no feelings for anyone, it just marches on not caring one or even two whits for anyone. Well, that is just mean, and here in California it is worse than anywhere else. I no longer remember what the hell I was talking about – I have gone off on a mean time tangent. Meantime, I’ve had it with talking about mean time, so let’s just move on, shall we? Unless “on” doesn’t wish to be moved, in which case we shan’t move “on”.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go hither and thither whilst playing the zither. I must get in my automobile and motor around the streets of this fair city, or I shall be out of the loop, fair city-wise, and we simply cannot have that. Today’s topic of discussion: Roll call. We haven’t done a roll call in many many many (that is three manys, which is, perhaps, two too manys – or should that be too too manys?) moons. So, tell us who you are, what you do, where you are, what you like to do for fun, to relax – in short, give us a brief bio of your very own self. Mine you know, so, your turn.