Well, dear readers, what can one say that one hasn’t said before? What can a person who has been doing these here notes since November of 2001, day in and day out as well as day out and day in, possibly have left to say? That is the dilemma I am faced with every night as I begin these here notes, and thankfully I do occasionally hit on something new to talk about. For example, in today’s notes if I talked about being a hermaphrodite that would be new. Of course, I’m not a hermaphrodite so while it would be new it would also be a false lie. I could talk about my desire to be the Queen of Sheba. That would be completely new, but I don’t really want to be a Queen of Sheba or anywhere else. You see the problem, I’m sure. I’ve talked about everything under the sun and over the moon and to the sides of the stars. We’ve heard it all, and yet we’re obviously going to hear it again. In other words, here’s today’s notes.
Yesterday, I got seven hours of sleep. That’s not new, that goes on way too often. But I did awaken to the good news that we finally have our guest star, the lovelier than lovely Miss Gloria Loring, mother of Robin Thicke, and hit songstress. Once we knew that, then we were finally able to finalize our flyer and eBlast information. I did some work on the computer, and then I went and had a chicken salad sandwich and a few rings of onion. Upon leaving, I ran into my old pal Allan Hunt – he was on the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and we’ve known each other since the early 1970s. He came to see my first musical, Start at the Top and to this day he can hum the original version and the rewritten version of the title song. He was lunching with Mr. Walter Koenig of Star Trek – he seemed like a very nice man.
After that, I picked up no packages, and then came home, buckled down, Winsocki, and finished writing the commentary for the next Kritzerland show. I’m sure I’ll be finessing it, but I think it came out pretty well. That took almost three hours, and then I put up the event page for the Kritzerland show on Facebook, did an update to the Kritzerland a GoGo Indiegogo campaign, and then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture entitled Hombre, starring Mr. Paul Newman, Diane Cilento, Richard Boone, Frederic March, Barbara Rush and others. Written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. (from the novel by Elmore Leonard) and directed by Martin Ritt. I saw it back when it first came out, really liked it, and went back several times. I’m not at all sure if I’ve seen it since – maybe on VHS or DVD – just can’t remember. I still really like it – it’s really well written with terrific dialogue, it holds your attention and Richard Boone is always great as a villain. It also has a wonderful score by David Rose. This brand new 4K transfer from Fox (via a Twilight Time Blu-ray) is spectacular – great color, contrast and sharpness – a beauty to behold, which is highly recommended by the likes of me.
Then I flipped over to the Flix of Net and watched the first thirty minutes of the supremely silly sci-fi movie The Angry Red Planet, filmed in Cinemagic, which I saw on my twelfth birthday in 1959. Sadly, the Netflix version is the same terrible open matte transfer used for the DVD. There’s enough headroom to drive several trucks through.
Then I went to Gelson’s and got some low-cal low-fat vanilla ice cream and some Gelson’s caramel topping (not too bad, calorie-wise). I had a little dish of ice cream with a little caramel topping and it was very good. I also had a tiny bit of Super Chinese slaw and a tinier bit of potato salad – of course those two items preceded the ice cream. It was a nice evening snack and not too caloric. Then I finally got around to uploading a couple of videos from the June Kritzerland show. First, here’s Kimberly Hessler singing a beautiful Elmer Bernstein song with lyrics by the Bergmans – from the movie From Noon Till Three. The song is called Hello and Goodbye and that’s Alby Potts on piano.
Wasn’t that just too too sweet? And here’s our very own Robert Yacko bringing down the house with the rare Leonard Bernstein Peter Pan song, Captain Hook’s Soliloquy.
Wasn’t that dastardly Captain Hook fun?
Today, I have to catch up on a lot of stuff and I have some things to plan out – it will take most of the day. I’ll eat, I’ll hopefully pick up packages and at some point, I’ll relax.
The rest of the week is meetings and meals, seeing a couple of things, and tub-thumping the last seven days of our Kritzerland a GoGo Indiegogo campaign – we must move ever upwards towards our ultimate goal. Keep sending excellent vibes and xylophones, and share the link with your wealthy friends who might want to be a Kritzerland benefactor.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, catch up on stuff, eat, hopefully pick up packages, plan out some stuff, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films of Mr. Paul Newman and Mr. Richard Boone? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping I did finally put the new in new by mentioning a hermaphrodite and the Queen of Sheba in one paragraph.