Well, dear readers, it’s time to do the bunny hop for today is Easter, a festively festive holiday. Have we all hidden our gaily colored Easter eggs. The lovely thing about Easter is that you can not only celebrate it in the East, but also in the West. Here in the West we originally called it Wester, but it never caught on, so now we call it Easter even though we’re in the West. I’ve got a nice bunch of marshmallow bunnies and chocolate bunnies, and bunny slippers, and I shall be dancing the bunny hop all the livelong day and night. I shall dress in pink and perhaps I’ll even go to West Hollywood in my pink attire. I have no special plans for Easter – I shall be hanging around the home environment and perhaps taking a drive in my motor car. I shall watch some DVDs, and listen to some CDs. Perhaps I shall take an Easter swim. I do hope we will have some of you posting photographs of your gaily colored Easter eggs, and also photographs of you all in your Easter pyjamas. Speaking of pyjamas, I had a lovely day yesterday. I went to Tower and bought a couple of newly released CDs, including Mr. Percy Faith’s soundtrack to the divinely awful The Oscar (I suppose that either awful or offal is appropriate when describing The Oscar). I had quite a lovely and large dinner – prime rib, a cup of Clam Chowder, garlic cheese bread, a baked potato, and for dessert a Chocolate Bundt cake slice, with berries and ice cream. The good news is that although it was a large meal, for once I didn’t finish everything on the plate as I normally do. I ordered the large cut of Prime Rib – fourteen ounces, but I left at least four of those ounces, which begs the question, why didn’t I just order the eleven ounce cut? I also read and proofed some more of the book (my second pass doing so). Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
After dinner, I watched a DVD entitled Islands in the Stream, starring Mr. George C. Scott, Miss Claire Bloom, Mr. David Hemmings, Mr. Julius Harris, Mr. Richard Evans, Miss Susan Tyrell and quite a few other fine actors. I hae always been quite partial to this film. “I hae always been quite partial to this film”? What am I, Scottish all of a sudden. I hae. Honestly, what a difference a V makes. I saw it originally at the Village Theater in Westwood at a sneak preview. It’s not a perfect film – it’s episodic, and each episode is quite different, but I just like the direction (Franklin Schaffner), the camerawork (Fred Koenekamp), the gorgeous score (Jerry Goldsmith – one of his greats), and the actors. If you want a lesson in great screen acting, just watch George C. Scott in one of his finest performances. The DVD is excellent, with some of the lushest blues and greens you’ll ever seen. The camerawork is purposely diffused, as was the style in the seventies, and I’m sure there’ll be the usual yokels complaining about the occasional grain. You’d think the yokels would learn what opticals are, then they’d understand the grain. Or why there’s grain in night scenes shot in low light (they pushed the film – film stock is better now in almost every way). In any case, it was lovely to see it again, and I find it quite moving.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because we’ve got to do the Bunny Hop and find our gaily colored Easter eggs whilst wearing our bunny pyjamas and bunny slippers.
Don’t forget, Donald will have a new radio show up for your listening pleasure, and this week’s show features yours truly, reading a bit from Writer’s Block. We also play all the songs on the Writer’s Block CD, plus other songs from other musicals of 1969, the year in which the story is set. It’s a fun show, so give it a listen.
Don’t forget, we’re going to have our first live chat in quite some time, tomorrow at five o’clock Pacific Mean Time. What fun we shall have. We shall dish the dirt and we shall dirt the dish, we shall laugh and laugh and just when we think we cannot laugh any more, we shall laugh again. It will be both wild and wooly and wooly and wild. Be there or be round.
I feel so damnably festive, don’t you? Let’s have the best Easter partay right here at haineshisway.com. And don’t forget those photographs.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, eat some marshmallow bunnies, I must do some grocery shopping, I must read and proof, and I must flit about in my bunny pyjamas, my bunny slippers, and my bunny teeth, whilst doing the Bunny Hop. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, as we all have the loveliest of Easters here at haineshisway.com.