Well, dear readers, what a sparkling and lively live chat we had last night here at haineshisway.com. It was non-stop for over two hours and let me tell you the wooly was wild and the wild was wooly. I do know that at least one person didn’t get invited in because I didn’t see their IM, but we’ve now changed the way the invites are going out so that won’t ever happen again, and we apologize to Angela D. whose IM I saw too late. Do you know that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet? I mean, the joint was jumpin’, and we were so happening it was ultra-cool, man, cool.
I had to work until eight so my chatting was only sporadic. After work, David Wechter took me to Monty’s Steak House where we dined in high style. I am afraid my diet went to hell but it was worth it – I had a Caesar Salad, a New York Steak, aparagus with béarnaise sauce and we shared some onion rings. Actually, only the onion rings were off-diet, but the amount of food was huge and then there was the little matter of the hot fudge sundae that was brought to me for a birthday dessert. In any case, it was a lovely meal, but I didn’t get home until eleven, didn’t get to sleep until after midnight and now I am quite tired on this Tuesday morning. I have to buy new sneakers today because mine are coming apart at the seams. What a lovely non-sequitur that was.
On Thursday, I shall be working only until two, and then I shall be motoring to Palm Springs to do a book signing at six-thirty. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? If there is anyone in that area who’d like to stop by, e-mail me and I’ll give you complete details and directions. Hopefully, I will have my new sneakers by then, because mine are coming apart at the seams.
Today it is not gray outside. It is blue outside. Perhaps tomorrow will be green or even tangerine outside.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because the loud and unseemly gardeners are outside being loud and unseemly and I simply cannot think with that caterwauling. Is that how you spell caterwauling? According to my handy-dandy spell checker that word doesn’t exist. Oh, well, click away and let’s not be concerned with whether the cat is wauling with correct spelling.
Well, rather astonishingly, we had not one guess to our Unseemly Trivia Contest (well, we had one guess). Mr. Arnold M. Brockman came up with a true stumper, although when he sent me the question I got the answer right away. I’m not bragging, though – I got the answer because I have the answer in my collection of plays and I’d considered doing a question regarding the play at one time. Here was the question.
An off-Broadway show that was based on a famous novel which was later turned into a famous movie. The play starred someone who would be the co-star of a popular TV series. The sets were by someone who would become a multiple winning Emmy Award Producer and the Lighting for the play was by a multiple Tony Award winning Lighting Designer.The Play was Co-Produced by one of our own Kimmlet-Hainsies.
Name the Novel,Movie,Play?
Name one of the stars of the play and the TV series he co-starred in?
Name the Set Designer that became an Emmy Award winning Producer?
Name the Lighting Designer that became A Tony Award winning Lighting Designer?
Name Our own Kimmlet/Hainsie who Co-Produced this Play Off-Broadway?
And here are the various and sundried answers.
The play, movie and novel: ALL THE KING’S MEN by ROBERT PENN WARREN
The actor: JOHN RAGIN of QUINCY
Set designer/Emmy producer: GARY SMITH
The lighting designer: JULES FISHER
Our own Hainsie/Kimlet producer: ARNOLD M. BROCKMAN
And there you have it. I know I have been errant and truant and that there are one or two sparkling prizes still due – if you are due a sparkling prize drop me a line just to make sure I have your sparkling address, and I promise to get them out this weekend.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must try to shake myself out of this sleepy stupor I am in, I must check the spelling of the word caterwauling, I must buy a new pair of sneakers because my old pair of sneaker are coming apart at the seams which is quite unseemly if you ask me. Oh, and not to chastise, but do you know that there was not one single post made after our live chat began, at least not when I checked at midnight. Remember, we must post until the cows come home, even when there is a live chat going on. Otherwise, we shall be coming apart at the seams. Today’s topic of discussion: Why is it that certain shows, like Saturday Night Fever and the just-opened Dance of the Vampires, despite being trounced by just about every single critic, can somehow not close the following night? In days of old that is exactly what would have happened. Yet today, producers somehow keep this stuff open for a year, although they ultimately lose most or all of their investment. Is it just ego? We don’t yet know if Dance of the Vampires will run, but my guess is they will try to keep the thing open and run through the Tonys at least. Second topic – what do you think of these behemoth Euro-shows? Post away, post often and don’t forget to be thinking of your excellent questions because tomorrow is Ask BK Day.