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March 4, 2005:

CRAOD AND MINGOO

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Well, dear readers, it’s already Friday, the end of another work week. Rihgt now I have a bandage on one of my tyopign fingers and it is making typing very difficutle indeed. I have no time to worry about corrections so we will just have to d o our best, which apparently isn’t to good. Hopefully, I will be able to remove said bandage in the morning and all will be well. I have a lot of typing to do today and I must not be slowed down by an unseemly bandage. Nor will I be slowed down by unseemly bondage. Yes, Virginia, no bandage/no bondage. No Bandage/No Bondage – that’s the title of my next novel. I think all you dear readers should put a bandage on your index finger so you can type just like me. Won’t that be fun? Yesterday, I had quite a lovely day. I wrote the requisite number of pages (even a bit more if you consider all the rewriting I did prior to doing new pages), I had an impromptu lunch with Miss Tammy Mingoo – now wait just a darned minute – Tammy MINGOO? I meant to type Minoff, but it came out Mingoo because of this fershluganah bandage. Now we shall have to always call her Tammy Mingoo. Where was I? Oh, yes, I had an impromptu lunch with Tammy Mingoo, I did some errands, and I even took a Jacuzzi in the evening hours. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?

Last night I watched a mtion picture on DVD entitled Bringing Up Baby, a film of Howard Hawks, starring Miss Katherine Hepburn and Mr. Cary Grant. I know this is going to sound like heresy, but I have never really cottoned to this movie. I’ve never really silked to this movie either. I’ve seen it six or seven times and I’ve tried to love it, I really have. Certainly one can’t fault the players, who are expert and wonderful. But there’s just something that seems so forced to me that I just never get into it. There are a few things that make me laugh, and I do enjoy the actors. But, for me, it’s not one of the classics. I know I’m a majority of one in this opinion, but it’s how I feel. I especially feel this way after coming off of The Palm Beach Story, which for me works better on almost every level. Well, that’s what makes horse racing I suppose. I thought the transfer was spotty and my feeling is if this had been issued by Columbia, all the usual suspects on the DVD sites would be raising holy hell. But, it’s Warners so all is forgiven.

What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because my bandaged finger, which is in the bondage of the bandage, is getting tired.

I’m quite looking forward to the Mickey Sinardi’s Showstopper Stars Spectacular tomorrow at the Beverly Garland Hotel. It will be interesting to see what kind of craod it gets. Craod – I ask you. Maybe there could be a new comedy team of Craod and Mingoo. Sybil Danning is supposed to be there. And Michael “Mod Squad” Cole. And Terry Moore. And, according to the flyer, one hundred more celebrities. I shall have a full report for you. I do hope the team of Craod and Mingoo are there.

I may have some very exciting news about the signing in New York. I hope to know today, and as soon as I know, whether it’s today or Monday, I shall let you know. If the exciting news comes to pass, let me tell you you will want to be there.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must write, I must do errands, I must do something by the light of the silvery moon, I must pick up packages and I must hopefully extricate my finger from the bondage of the bandage. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, Joe Hisaishi’s lovely score to a Japanese film entitled Hana Bi. DVD, next up will probably be Dinner at Eight or Bitter Victory. Your tunr. Let’s have laods of lovely postings, shall we, and don’t forget to put your bandages on so you can have just as many typos as me. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Craod and Mingoo!

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