Well, dear readers, here we are, post Columbus Day and I am coming down off my Columbus Day high. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I was high as a kite on the fourth of July on Columbus Day. A natural high, to be certain, but a high nonetheless. After a shaky night’s sleep, I awoke and puttered around the house and frittered away an hour or two. Have you ever frittered away an hour or two? It’s lots of fun. Of course, if you fritter away too much then soon you’ll be fritterin’ away your noon time, supper time, chore time, too. What am I, The Music Man all of a sudden? I then took a little drive, and then I came back and did a bit of writing. Then I partook of our Unseemly Live Chat for a half-hour or so, and then Miss Juliana A. Hansen came over and we had Chinese food (not in bed) and watched a motion picture on DVD. She left, I partook of the Jacuzzi and now I am writing these here notes in a totally relaxed state (California). Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
The motion picture we watched was entitled Sullivan’s Travels, a film of Mr. Preston Sturges. Juliana wanted to see a classic film and a romantic comedy and I immediately suggested Sullivan’s Travels because it’s all that and so much more. This film contains some of my favorite lines of dialogue ever written, and it features two of the most incandescent star turns ever from Mr. Joel McCrea and Miss Veronica Lake, who are perfection in every way. The Sturges stock company fills the other roles and they are all wonderful. The film works on so many levels – it’s funny, it’s got heart, it’s romantic, and it’s even downright serious at times. It all somehow works, thanks to the deft writing and directing of Mr. Sturges and the expert playing of the cast. If you’ve never seen it, you better just get a copy now (from Criterion) and watch it. You’ll be very glad you did.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I am coming down off my Columbus Day high but I don’t want to come down too much because it was so enjoyable.
Yes, I had me a Columbus Day high and now I want it to continue into today, so I can have me a Tuesday Day high. I must do quite a few things today – lots of phone calls, a few bills to pay and put in the mail, writing to do, all whilst experiencing my Tuesday Day high. In fact, I think all hainsies/kimlets should experience a Tuesday Day high. We shall be at one with each other and we shall romp about like hyenas in a frog pond, singing ditties and part songs and art songs and heart songs and even a la carte songs. By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), if anyone has a clew as to what the hell I’m going on about now might be the time to say it loudly and clearly.
Tonight I shall be going to the Pasadena Playhouse to see Side by Side by Sondheim, which I’m looking forward to and dreading at the same time. I’m going with Miss Tammy Minoff as she and I both have friends who are involved. I shall, of course, have a full report for you.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must have a Tuesday Day high, I must not putter or fritter today, I must buckle down Winsocki and work, work, work (that is three works). I’m determined to write at least five pages today and perhaps even more. Today’s topic of discussion: What play and/or film had you laughing so hard and so loud that you could not breathe and you thought you were going to die? For me, the answer is simple: Catskills on Broadway, specifically Mal Z. Lawrence’s set. I literally had tears running down my cheeks and was laughing so hard I thought I was going to keel over and have a heart attack. And I was not the only one – our very own Mr. Nick Redman sat beside me and he was laughing harder than I was, and the entire audience was laughing harder than we were. I’ve never really heard or seen anything like it. Film – for rocking the theater laughter, I must say that Some Like it Hot was an amazing experience to see in its first run, long before it was a “classic”. And Mr. Wilder’s One, Two, Three was the same way – non-stop laughs from start to finish; big, huge fall-out-of-your-seat laughs. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, as we come down off our Columbus Day highs and continue on with our Tuesday Day highs.