Haines His Way

Her ensuing cab ride?  So she's trying to get her flowers by hiring a cab driver to sue for them - well, I'll get an ensuing limo driver....

...Oh wait, I had a point but may have lost it somewhere.

My Brain is frying from looking at the "final" Starfighter script too much today.  

Will we never get to page nine?

My mother invented a short-cut version of Eggs Benedict for when she doesn't feel like taking the trouble to make the full version.  She calls it "Eggs Benedict Arnold."

FJL and BK are being quite covert today.  

Expect a call soon BK...

Is the Times going to publish its review after the Brain has closed???  

The session on the Plaza Hotel arrangement went very well, but it wasn't long enough so I will be adding a number to it tonight.  The event is on Monday, Oct 1; the rehearsal is next sunday, 12:30-2:30. I believe.

After that, I rushed down to West 46th Street to meet Donna Lynne Champlin for the 4:30 performance of THE PIPER, which has a glorious Irish score played by a band of five (piano, cello, guitar, percussion, pipe and violin double) and an onstage violin played by the multitalented Nancy Anderson.  There's too much music and too little plot, which cannot make up its mind if it's a variation on the Pied Piper, Jack the Ripper, Irish politics in Boston around 1892, or the perils of being an ex-whore and dealing with a mysterious crippled bastard daughter.  The music won me over but the book, with an especially ridiculous conclusion, bothered me.  It was a mostly excellent cast featuring my friends Christiane Noll and Catherine LaValle, and the musical staging was by Janet Watson, wife of FANTASTICKS author Tom Jones and sister of the glorious 1960s ingenue Susan Watson.

Hello from E & T Edisaurus! I still don't have internet service at home and may not before heading to NY next week. But in one corner of our new house, we can mooch off the one neighbor who doesn't require a pasword, when they're in town and when they're home but not sleeping.

Consequently, I only get to read about 4 pages or so before the service disappears. This is beyond frustrating.

To compound things, my work has virtually disappeared after THE CLOSER. I had one day of work after the move (I cut a "Thank You" Emmy spot which never aired since Sally Field won!) and although I had a large project editing for the SAG awards, it's the time of year when Turner panics about money (actually it's about a month early this year) and pulled the job in-house with their editors.

I can't say I'm too unhappy about this development. I love the producer and we were looking forward to working together again, but this it didn't really give me any time to line up any other work to take its place. And now I can't surf the internet and read the posts at work, while loaading or waiting for approvals, and I can't read at home, and I feel quilty about going somewhere to read when my DH and I are trying to get the house more liveable.

I wanted to read all the posts before writing in but I'm not quite finished yet. Still, some of the tragedies and victories and things to celebrate have manifested and resolved themselves, so I'm going to chime in now, after reading of the triumphant premiere night of THE BRAIN.

Tonight at 8PM, est, for those of you who are at home and not at the NYMF, tune in PBS for Ken Burn's THE WAR, produced by my partner Peter Miller.

I've only seen one episode, but it was phmnomenal and I think the best thing Ken has ever done.

I have to say that I haven't been a huge fan of his work for awhile, but I loved the episode I saw. There are no scholars or historians...it's the story of WWII told by the people who fought it and those around them, from 4 parts of the country.

I know this is late notice but pbs will usually run these several times and it's my first chance to mention it.

The achival footage Peter found was phenomenal, much of it never before seen here as it came from the Japanese and german government.

So, tune in!

DR Cillaliz has met Peter (I think bk and Adriana and the NY contingent may also have when we premiered SACCO AND VANZETTI) but those who haven't will be able to meet him at the Sept 30th showing of THE BRAIN. He's bringing his wife and two daughters. I described the questionable elements but he seems to think they can deal with muscular men in gold lame, etc.  

He's looking forward to meeting all the HHWers, particularly FJL, who he is very grateful to, and thanking everyone who so generously supported our film but attending screenings or buying/renting the DVD. So be sure and introduce yourselves so he can thank you or in the case of der B, dodge his rotten tomatoes!

With all of the HHW people gathering in NYC, why has there been precious few photos??  Pictures!  There should be a LOT more pictures!

And now...back to light fixtures.

So I will try to respond to what I've been reading over the last weeks and repond with:

Condolences to DR Ginny and DH Richard for their loss. I followed the whole story and was hoping for the best, and was very sad about the outcome, but glad that you are both dealing with it as best you can. We'll buy you drinks in NY---I'm glad that you will still be able to join the festivities and may it be a welcome mental break.

My printer is not accepting directions from my Mac.

DR elmore3003 - did you try telling your Mac to ask the printer politely?