Well, dear readers, our Annual Oscar Bash was, as always, a sparklingly sparkling even, filled with merriment and mirth and laughter and legs, and if you don’t believe me check out the fifty-six pages of postings, over 1650 of ’em. There were some notable errant and truant hainsies/kimlets who’ve attended our other bashes – I don’t profess to know why they decided to be errant and truant on this festively festive evening, but I’m sure they had their reasons for not mingling with the wonderful people who did show up. At our most, I think we had about sixteen attendees, definitely down from last year – and we had about eleven GUESTS. Still, it was our third highest posting day in our eight years, and I’m jiggy with that. Prior to the partay, I had done the long jog, eaten various and sundried foodstuffs, played some CDs, and watched a motion picture on DVD.
Said motion picture was entitled Portland Expose, a super low-budget sort of noir, starring Edward Binns, Virginia Gregg, and a very young Frank Gorshin. The film was all shot on location in Portland and I’m sure would be of interest to some of our Oregonians for the wonderful location shots. The film isn’t very good, but it’s short and I enjoyed it because I’m a fan of Mr. Binns and a couple of the other character actors were very good.
And then, of course, there was the Oscarcast. I’ve read some reports by people who thought it was the best Oscar show in years. I must have seen a different show, because it certainly was fairly dreadful for a lot of it’s very long running time. The writing was pretty terrible throughout, and the two production numbers were total embarrassments – horribly arranged, and badly conceived and written. Where was Marc Shaiman? It reminded me of the Allan Carr broadcast at times. Ben Stiller was singularly unfunny, some of the gowns were truly mind boggling and not in a good way, and I got a little bored of the love fests in the acting categories – a little of that went a long way. I also did not like the format of the show – I finally realized what they were trying to do, but it just didn’t work – too many important awards right up front, which front-loaded the show and made the middle extremely flabby. I am glad that Slumdog Millionaire did so well and I was happy to see Mr. Penn get the award, although I liked Mr. Langella equally as well. I will say the show wasn’t nearly as entertaining as our dear readers were.
After the show, I did some proofing, wrote some preliminary notes for tomorrow’s work session, approved the cover for our next soundtrack release, didn’t approve the cover for the cast album release, which is being redone, and listened to some more CDs. All in all, it was a very pleasantly pleasant day.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I have a very long and busy day today and a very busy week, and I must get my beauty rest.
Today, I must get up early and do the long jog right away. After that, I have several errands to do, and then I must toddle over to the home environment of Miss Adryan Russ, and from there we’re all meeting downtown at some dim sum restaurant, where we will eat dim sum. I will not eat much of anything, because after we return to Miss Russ’s home, we’ll be reading through the script of the long and now shorter musical, after we first play through all the songs that have been rewritten or re-jiggered. Then one of the authors has made homemade three-cheese ravioli, which is why I shan’t be eating the dim sum – I’m saving it up for dinner. After the dinner, we’ll begin our notes session. That will continue Tuesday morning, and then we’ll begin going through the show scene by scene to figure out exact song placement, what dialogue will be cut to accommodate the songs, and what I feel is still wrong with the book. These folks have been working on this musical version of this script for over a year, but it’s been a kind of wacky collaboration and not in a good way. I have been stressing that from here on in they must really function as a team – nothing is going to get better if they don’t. And they have to let me oversee and lead the team. There can’t be any more bombast – just good, hard work, and everyone being on the same page. I will be very strong about all this.
This phase of the work sessions will be done Wednesday morning, after which I have a very important meeting and I mean VERY important. Thursday, I’m having lunch with Mr. Brent Barrett, and Friday will be very busy with various and sundried things, too. And somewhere during all this, I have to address and affix postage to a LOT of packages – I’m hoping to have some help. And there’s also a LACCTAA meeting on Tuesday and doing the final fixes on the newsletter so that that can go out by the end of the week.
And then suddenly, unbelievably, we’re into March and I’ve got to cast and make ready for the Nudie Musical reading, which means all the music has to have lead sheets done – I’ve got the guy to do it, and I’ve just been waiting until the demo is finished to give him the stuff. But I’m glad I waited, since a couple of numbers are going to get adjustments.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the Swim, because today is the birthday of dear reader Druxy. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to dear reader Druxy. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO DEAR READER DRUXY!!!
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, do errands, attend a lunch during which I won’t be eating much, have a long, involved work session, and eat homemade ravioli. Today’s topic of discussion: What is the most romantic music you’ve ever heard – music that just puts you in the mood to canoodle and cavort? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I prepare for the busy week.