Good morning, all! I'm off to Toyland, and then a luncheon date. After that, I will drop off some work for Mr Ron Raines and come home to see what fresh hell awaits.
I watched the TOP CHEF rerun last night and the latest eisode of MAKE ME A SUPERMODEL, whose casting director lady judge reminds me of the unpleasant Fran Lebowitz; whenever I see Ms Lebowitz on LAW & ORDER, I remember what a completely hostile bitch she was as a Drama Book Shop customer. As a result, the SUPERMODEL judge, whatever her name is, drives me a bit crazy.
I've been enjoying SUPERMODEL: the high-powered combination of vanity, ego, and shallowness is quite fun to watch. As for TOP CHEF, the jury's still out. I think they sent home the right person, although after the scene of her being antisocial while everyone's socializing, I suspect that the producers knew they had a dead fish on the line.
I also watched the second of the 3-part BBC adaptation of COLD COMFORT FARM from 1970 or so, with Alastair Sim and Sarah Badel. I love the premise of the novel: putting a Jane Austen character into the violent and sexual farm country of Thomas Hardy and DH Lawrence to civilize them. The BBC version is much more faithful to Stella Gibbon's comic novel, but I still prefer John Schlesenger's version with Kate Beckinsale, partly because of its wonderful cast and their over-the-top performances and also because it avoids the attempt to transfer to the screen - with peculiar visuals - Miss Gibbon's literary flughts of fancy in which she caricatures bad novelists of the 1930's.
DR FJL, I believe Patrick can get us house seats.
TOD:
DVD: some Netflix films I keep postponing
CD: Guy Haines, The Brain From Planet X, The Chocolate Soldier, Bluebeard, Liz Callaway
VCR: thos porn is stale!