Well, dear readers, just when you think you are partied out you need to get out your pointy party hats, your colored tights and pantaloons and the cheese slices and ham chunks because darned if we don’t have another birthday to celebrate – our very own young Hapgood in seventeen years of age this very day. So, let us party until the cows come home, let us dance the Hora and the Swim, let us be randy and raucous not necessarily in that order, and let us give Hapgood a rousing haineshisway.com birthday wish. On the count of three: One, two, three – a rousing haineshisway.com birthday wish for Hapgood!
Last night I watched a motion picture entertainment entitled The Day of the Dolphin, which has just been released on DVD by Home Vision. I’ve never seen the film all the way through, and I must say I was very taken with it. Fa and B, the two dolphins, are amazing and should have won Academy Awards for their work in this film. The movie was a big old bomb when it came out – they tried, rather foolishly, to sell it as an action adventure, and that it most certainly is not. It’s wonderfully directed by Mike Nichols, well-written by Buck Henry, with beautiful camerawork by William Fraker and a haunting score by Georges Delerue. The cast is wonderful, too – in addition to the dolphins, excellent performances from George C. Scott, Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere, Fritz Weaver and a host of others. There are new interviews with Buck Henry (very droll and amusing – it’s clear he doesn’t think much of the film, but I disagree and think he did a good job and that the film basically works), Edward Herrmann and Lauren Whatever, who has a small role. This woman was so cute back then, but she is a living example of why no one should have plastic surgery. She looks nothing like what she looked like and is pulled so tight that she can barely speak. Hideous.
I have made my reservations to see Miss Melissa Errico at Feinstein’s at the Cinegrill. I’ll be seeing the show on Tuesday night, August 5, and I hope that some of you West Coast Hainsies/Kimlets can join me there. I will warn you that it is not cheap to attend Feinstein’s at the Cinegrill – it’s a $35 cover and you must spend another $30 on drinks and/or food. The old non-Feinstein’s at the Cinegrill was much more reasonable. These sorts of prices are fine for the bigger stars, but I have to believe that the club will suffer otherwise.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because we have been in this section for far too long.
I need to get off this Ben and Jerry’s coconut fudge chip almond ice cream kick that I’m on. I could eat it every day if I let myself. As it is, I’m eating it two or three times a week. I do adore it and if you have a Ben and Jerry’s near you, try it immediately and you will be as hooked as I.
Camp has been getting decidedly mixed reviews – some critics are loving it and some, like the LA Weekly, abhor it. Having read both good and bad reviews, my instinct is that I will not like it much, although I will see it with an open mind. It’s a good subject for a film, and I’m sure there are things in it I will enjoy, but it sounds as if the characters and plot situations are standard issue cliches and I really can’t stand the way the marketing and press is shoving this thing in my face. I will try to catch it on the weekend perhaps. However, I know WEL liked it very much, and I’d be interested to hear other opinions, especially unbiased ones.
I hope the above paragraph didn’t come off too too ornery, but the more I read about this the more it’s sounding like Fame – a movie that I could not stomach on any level.
I have been informed by dear reader Susan that there is some kind of gathering next Sunday night for dear readers Kerry and MusicGuy whilst they are in New York. So, I may change the live chat night, so stay tuned – I’ll give plenty of notice.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work and lunch and write and dine and whatnot. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite Noel Coward songs? I’ll start, but I must be brief so I’ll just say my favorite – If Love Were All. Your turn, and let’s have lots of posts for me to read.