Well, dear readers, April is already flying by, like a gazelle with dandruff. Now there is a word we don’t see or say very much anymore. Dandruff. Does anyone still have dandruff? When I was a wee sprig of a twig of a tad of a lad of a youth dandruff was prevalent, oh, yes, dandruff was prevalent. There were lots of TV ads for dandruff remedies, and one would often see men on the street with dandruff flakes on their suit coats. Have we progressed beyond dandruff in the new millennium? Has dandruff gone the way of the dodo bird? Have I just written multiple sentences about dandruff? I gotta tell you. I don’t know what the HELL I’m talking about now. I got off on a dandruff tangent and now I’m all at sea. Speaking of all at sea, yesterday was a very productive day in certain ways. For example, I got up. That was very productive. I then began doing the rest of the additions and fixes to the previous chapter all based on the research notes from the day before. I probably did two pages-worth, although it didn’t create two new pages, since I was replacing other material. I then wrote two pages, then did an errand or three, then came back and wrote three more pages then did another errand then came back and wrote tow more pages then supped. I’d say that was a very productive day in certain ways, wouldn’t you? After all that writing, I was ready to sit on my couch like so much fish, which I did.
Last night, I managed to watch two count them two motion pictures on DVD. The first motion picture on DVD was entitled Kaleidoscope, starring Mr. Warren Beatty and Miss Susannah York. I saw the movie on it opening day back in 1966 and I loved it, because it was about gambling and it was shot in London and Paris and it was witty and fun. I saw it several more times during that initial release, then didn’t see it again until last night. I was worried it would be very dated, and it was, but it was still delightfully delightful, with a fun script and good direction by Jack Smight, and a sprightly score by Stanley Myers. Mr. Beatty and Miss York are fetching, and Clive Revill, Murray Melvin, and Eric Porter provide able support. Of course, Warners can’t be bothered to release it in the US, but they did release it in Germany. The print used has its share of lines and dirt, but the color is very good and that’s what I care about. I then watched the second motion picture on DVD, which was entitled The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Mr. Will Smith. Of course, I’d read lovely things about the film, so I was looking forward to it. I was not quite prepared for how bad a film it was. Oh, its heart is in the right place, but the script is so bloody awful and repetitious that it was mind numbing. Every ten minutes we had a scene where Mr. Smith has something good start to happen, which is then immediately followed by a disaster. I went with it the first three times, but the next five I just wanted to scream. Sloppy, sloppy writing. The last five minutes is affecting, but it took two hours to get there and it wasn’t worth the journey. Of course, the first thing on the screen is the ubiquitous “Based on a true story,” which it is, only all the details have been changed for the movie according to the holy writ of Syd Field and Robert McKee’s Screenwriting 101. Why let the real facts get in the way when you want to load the screenplay dice and be manipulative?
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must investigate what is going on with dandruff in the year 2007.
Today, I intend to write as much as I can, and then this evening I have a work session with Miss Merissa Haddad and John Boswell – we’ll be figuring out our rehearsal schedule for this and next week, too. The rest of the week will be filled with writing, rehearsing and meetings.
I do have a lot of DVD watching to do – I got Happy Feet, and season one of The Streets Of San Francisco, and Royal Flash, and Bedazzled, and a documentary called Jonestown, which I’ve heard is very interesting. And I have a lot of CD listening to do, too. It will, in fact, be a listening and watching potpourri.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, write, eat, write, rehearse, and perhaps write. Today’s topic of discussion: Cheese, baby. What are your all-time favorite cheeses, and what would you recommend to a cheese neophyte such as myself? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we ponder WEHT dandruff in the year 2007.