Haines His Way

You Doodit!

Read it here -- this is the Summer of the Man Crush!

Well, it sounds queer to me.

I don't follow Grey's Anatomy, but thought this was interesting:

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Isaiah Washington has lost his job on the hit ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," five months after creating a furor with his use of an anti-gay slur.

Washington's contract option was not renewed for next season, series producer ABC Television Studios said Thursday.

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.

They set up the story line so he could either go or stay and it would work .

Take a chance in your underpants....

I'll go get an Oops! Report.

OHHHH - does anyone have a June 11, 2007 New York Magazine they could send me?  On page 56 there is a story about Willie's Dawgs. The mural in the background was painted by my friends Paul and Mark (they went to NYC to paint it for a friend).  I gave my copy to Paul, but would love another copy to give Mark.   They used to sell it at Barnes and Noble, but they don't anymore.

This is one of my favorites of Mark's work
http://www.markkochen.com/bonsaicity.htm

I'm going to sit in the Jacuzzi if these lame peckerwoods who were supposed to be here at three-thirty would ever get here.  I'm having an earlyish supper this evening at The Smoke House, so I have to have enough time to get ready for that.  I hate lateness and these boys are masters.

Back from rehearsal - I made a few more tweaks and we're ready for Sunday's show.  What time do the Tony's begin on the West Coast?

Telecast DELAY begins at 8:00pm.  If you were up this way, I'd invite you to our "do".  

Sorry to hear your bad news, DR Elmore.

School is officially out for the summer.  My tenure at this school is now over as I don't plan to be there next year.  Summer vacation begins the preparation for the move.  It's exciting and scary (almost an SS reference).  

TOD  -

CD - The Creature Wasn't Nice
DVD - nothing
iPod - this morning on the way to work I was listening to a playlist of several versions (live and otherwise) of "The Lady's Paying" and "Eternal Youth Is Worth A Little Suffering" from Sunset Blvd  it's an odd playlist I know, but consider the source

I have to say that our daily newspaper theater critic is pretty lame here. We've got the Molly Ringwald/SWEET CHARITY national tour here this week, and in her review of the show, the critic lamented the fact that the show did not have a happy ending. The fact that Charity doesn't "get her Man" was a total surprise to this critic (who's not a youngster, by the way).

Can a decent theater critic actually go into SWEET CHARITY and not know how it's going to end? I mean, I can understand going into THE DROWSEY CHAPARONE and not knowing ANYTHING about it, but SWEET CHARITY has been around since 1966 (and the movie it's adapted from around ten years before that!! How could a self-respecting theater critic write such balderdash!

There are worse things for a critic to say or do.  When I first played the role of Andrew Wyke in SLEUTH back in 1976, the local theater critic started off his review by saying, "Since everyone is already familiar with SLEUTH, it will come as no surprise that there are really only two actors in the show."

I'm off.  I'm going to my parents' for dinner and then (where I really should be tonight ) the load-in for "Taming of the Shrew...in Hell!"  After that will be some sort of "Shrew" celebration.

One wants to feel sorry for Paris Hilton.

One does.

But, ulitmately, one doesn't.

   I really did try.

Am having scanner problems this morning.

Office scanner, that is.

It won't scan legal-sized documents, but it "useta"!

The tech who installed my scanner software was working in his Gran's garden a week ago, got bitten by a spider and now his foot is three times its normal size.

Needless to say, he's been on anti-biotics and is not here.

A Brown Recluse?