Well, dear readers, I must do the Hustle and write these notes quickly, for I have quite a busy day ahead of me. I simply cannot dally or tarry or even tarry and dally or even tally and darry, I must do the Hustle because haven’t you heard, I have quite a busy day ahead of me. Not afoot of me, mind you, no, I have quite a busy day ahead of me, and thus I cannot dally or tarry.
Last night I dreamed I was in Manderley. Last night I had the craziest dream. And I was prepared to tell you all about it only it has gone completely out of my head. I hate when that happens, because I do remember that it was a supremely strange dream. Ah, well, if it comes back to me I shall post about it.
Two very exciting motion pictures came out on DVD and I’m happy to say they are both lovely transfers. They are big films, dear readers, big roadshow films and I, for one, like big roadshow films. The first is from producer Samuel Bronston (King of Big Films) and is entitled King of Kings. I have always thought it one of the best of the spectacles, very literate and very well directed by Nicholas Ray. Jeffrey Hunter plays Jesus Christ, Rip Torn plays Judas, Ron Randell (who I would later work with when he was an understudy in a show I did at the Taper), Viveca Lindfors, Robert Ryan and every human being living in Spain also appear. The score by Mr. Miklos Rozsa is magnificent and, as I said, the transfer is very nice. The other film is Mr. Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal. Now, let me say here and now and also now and here that I like Mr. Preminger’s films, even the bad ones. The Cardinal is not great but it has many fine moments and some excellent performances, especially by John Huston. The film is lovely to look at and features a very moving score by Jerome Moross. Warners, rather surprisingly, has gone all out for this release and included a second DVD which has a two-hour documentary on Mr. Preminger, with lots of interviews with the likes of George C. Scott, James Stewart, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, etc. It was made in 1991, really before these types of documentaries had been done a lot, and apparently the producers have never heard of pull-ups or cutaways to shorten and make succinct interviews which are rambling and endless. However, there are wonderful clips shown, and it really made me want to see Tell Me You Love Me, Junie Moon, one of the few Preminger films I haven’t seen. It’s nice that Warners did this right (especially after the shoddy treatment afforded Mr. Preminger’s Exodus) – funnily, while the documentary does touch on most of Mr. Preminger’s films there are certain ones missing in action, such as Porgy and Bess and Skidoo. The best thing – The Cardinal cost me all of sixteen bucks and King of Kings fourteen bucks. Can’t have a better bargain than that.
My goodness, I am supposed to be doing the Hustle and yet on and on I go. We really must click on the Unseemly Button below, even though we must be doing the Hustle as we do so.
Are we all doing the Hustle? Do we look cute as buttons? Do buttons look cute? Oh, time is a fleeting thing with wings and it is flying by and I really must speed through the rest of these here notes because I must outrun time, I must give time a run for its money, I must not sit still whilst time, the bitch-goddess, moves ever forward, ticking mercilessly with no care for whether or not we can keep up with it. My goodness, that was profound. That was so profound I must eat a gummy bear.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must outwit time in all its guises, I must go hither and thither and have meetings and make copies of things and play Meltz and Ernest songs and have phone meetings. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask all your excellent questions. So, ask away, and post away and don’t slack – we need our usual big end-of-month push so we remain on track in our quest to soon be the most popular site on all the Internet. I shall check back as often as possible, as time, the bitch-goddess, permits.