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August 12, 2006:

THE HOME STRETCH

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Well, dear readers, we finally got the print for the Kevin Spirtas DVD and he is at this very moment signing away. We’ll then get the print back to the plant and I’m hoping to have finished DVDs by Wednesday, and they’ll ship out that afternoon or the following morning, still ahead of street date but not by much. One interesting thing none of us caught on the print was the omission of the special features blurb about the commentary track. So, we’ll just have to make sure everyone knows about it because it’s a ton o’ fun. So, we’re in the home stretch, which is ironic since I just stretched in the home. Speaking of stretching, yesterday was a day. I had to get up early, jog, and then do a bunch of little errands before meeting someone at the DGA. After that, I hurried to the home environment of Mr. David Wechter for our work session on The Brain. We discussed our feelings about what worked and didn’t work in the reading, and then talked through the two most problematic characters and the other fixes we wanted to make. Then we started on page one and went through the entire script, making notes on every page and figuring out the general direction of scenes that needed major altering. By the end of the day, we’d done major work on the two characters, really defining them and fleshing them out, and they’re much better now and we’ve roughed out changes in almost all their scenes – David will work on some, and I’ll do the others and then we always polish together. I’m working on the new song for one of those characters and I now have more to work with in terms of its lyric and direction. We also made the hero of the piece more of a hero and we really defined what the show is about (other than being an affectionate and hopefully amusing send-up of a genre we all love – the show has to be about something, as simple as that sounds). So, I think we’ll be able to finish this new pass within a week or so and have the new script ready for the auditions. We both felt very good after our day’s work. I then had to hie myself back to have supper with dear reader Maria and her beautiful daughter Rachel. Rachel is leaving for San Francisco and wanted to have a farewell dinner at Genghis Cohen and so we did. The food, as always, was yummilicious. After that, I came home, the print arrived, Kevin came to pick it up, and we ended up going out to have some pie at Du-Par’s.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because she of the Evil Eye will be here bright and early and I must get my beauty rest.

If it’s Saturday it must be time for our Unseemly Trivia Contest question, so I’ve whipped up a quickie. Have you ever whipped up a quickie? If so, I don’t really want to know about it. Here’s the question:

This flop play was written by an author who would go on to have much success as the book writer for at least two all-time classic musicals. He would also write at least one really successful play that was turned into a successful film directed by a major filmmaker. Interestingly, the title of the flop play would ironically be used as the title of a film many years later, a film completely unrelated to the flop play – the irony being that the title of said film had a connection back to the author. So –

Name the flop play and its author.

Name the two all-time classic musicals.

Name the successful play turned into a successful film and name the film’s director.

What was the connection to the author vis a vis the title of the flop play being used as the title of a film unrelated to the flop play.

Remember: DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS TO THE SITE! Send them to me at bruce@haineshisway.com. You have until midnight Monday to send me your answers. Good luck to one and all and also all and one.

Today I must get some writing done on the play, then I must start entering the fixes on The Brain and doing those rewrites. Then I shall be toddling off to dine with the Jones’.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, jog, write, rewrite, fix, and sup. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite books written about the motion picture industry? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we?

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