Haines His Way

So, does "mot" rhyme with "Not"?  Or does "Not" rhyme with "mot"?

Or does the title "SILENCE" imply that the poem is not meant to be read aloud.

Oh... But if the intent was to be "bilingual", then you have a wonderful play on words - and the English and French language!  An aural as well as a visual juxtaposition!

WOW!  Sooo deep.

I was just about to comment on the aural and visual juxtaposition, not to mention the deep philosophical issues raised thereby and its relevance to the political situation created by the non-ratification of the EU Constitution by the Dutch voters , but I'm just not in the mood anymore












 

That's all for now.

Stay tuned for our fascinating montage of casino carpets, which will be posted when we get home!

That's all for now.

Stay tuned for our fascinating montage of casino carpets, which will be posted when we get home!

Oh, the anticipation!

Broken legs to all stage-bound folk!

I'm back from a non-stop morning.  My head is swimming (no mean feat - I mean, my head is out there in the pool while the rest of me is in here typing - I have a wireless head, you know).

What is it about actors in LA?  If you asked an actor in NY to read the leading role in a new play at an impromptu play reading, you could get ANYONE there instantly.  Here in LA it's like pulling teeth.  You would be shocked at the lame excuses to do anything other than go to a commercial or TV audition.  The laziest bunch of losers I've ever seen.  Tammy must have called twenty people - all busy.  One of the actors had done the same excuse for the first reading we did - I told her to pass on a little message from me saying that if I ever have this guy at an audition he can just leave the premises because I will not consider him for anything ever anywhere.

Finally got Mitsubishi on the phone - the new lamp will be here in the morning, and they're sending someone between eleven and one to install it, since I told them I was not comfortable doing so.

BK-
I'm just curious as to what the dude's lame repeat excuse was.

vixmom, one of the most mesmerizing pieces of theatre I ever saw was a production of Hiawatha done by the National Theatre.  It used nothing but the poem and composed music and was bascially a holiday show for kids, but this adult was utterly enchanted by it.


WONDERFUL, WEIRD HOLLYWOOD:  Yesterday I had a meeting right in the heart of Hollywood on Cahuengha right between Hollywood Blvd. & Sunset Blvd.  After the meeting, I went to Hutson's B-b-q joint across the street right down from my favourite newstand.  Hutson's ain't Dr. Hogly-Wogly's but it will do in a pinch when you don't want to drive all the way out to Sepulveda in the Valley.  Inside Hutson's is Mickey Rooney, looking like a wrinkled little gnome, spilling b-b-q sauce on his pants.  I guess he was with his one of his sons.  Outside on the street was porn-icon Ron Jeremy chatting with ex-madame Heidi Fleiss sporting some of the worst plastic surgery I've ever seen, veering into Michael Jackson terrain in its extremity.  Only in Hollywood.   I remember back in the eighties, Mickey Rooney at one time had some sort of commercial stake in Hutson's and it was, for about five minutes, called Mickey Rooney's Hutson's B-b-q.

1970 (for films released in 1969), the last true classic year for Best Song Nominees, including Rod McKuen's lovely "Jean," Fred Karlin & Dory Previn's "Come Saturday Morning," Michel Legrand & the Bergmans' classic "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", E. Bernstein & D. Black warming up for "Merlin" (joke) with their theme to "True Grit," and the winning Bacharach/David "Raindrops," a makeup award for them having lost in 1968 for what should have won:  "The Look of Love."

Loved the photos, DRs Sandra and Laura.  Looking forward to the carpet montage.

Rod also scored A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Joanna.
Also, I don't know if it was intended for a full production or what, but he did this show released as a cast-recording called THE BLACK EAGLE which is quite bizarre and enjoyable. It's a two or three record set on vinyl.

The actor's excuse was some sort of meal, same as the first time we asked him.  What a total jerk.  And he's always complaining about his career.  Maybe a few less dinners would help him out.

DR CP - do you suppose that Ron and Heidi and Mickey went home and said: "I saw the writer of HERCULES at the B-B-Q place...only in Hollywood."

And yes DR CP and DR RODZINSKI I also enjoy Mr McKuen's poetry and songs.  His autobiography - or autobiographical - book about finding his natural father is very moving and interesting, if you haven't read it.

He did a couple of neat songs in the otherwise mediocre (song wise) movies ROCK PRETTY BABY and SUMMER LOVE.

McKuen's score for JOANNA was nearly the BEST part of that movie.

I worked with Rod McKuen once, on one of my early albums for Ben Bagley; he sang two Kern songs I did, "What's Good About Goodbye," which was way out of his range so a lot of melody got rewritten to accommodate his voice, and "That Lucky Fella," which he did delightfully.  He was very sweet and enthusiastic.  I liked him enormously.  

I don't know from McKuen's poetry..I have never been much for poetry...but I do like many of the songs he wrote.