Haines His Way

DR Miss Karen - I think I forgot to clean off the chocolate chip "smudges" I left on the piano keyboard.

Yes, you did -- and a bunch of crumbs on the bench and floor -- but no problem, I took care of it.  I got everything cleaned up so I'd get my security deposit back....

I'll have WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB and MONK from last night to watch. Those should get seen while I'm cooking and eating lunch.

I mean... You told me to put that Levain cookie down... So I did.

Yes, you did -- and with that big ol' grin of yours, so The Enabler is never in hot water for very long... (and it was plural "cookies" cause you had the chocolate chip in one hand and the oatmeal in the other as you alternated bites while making that little yummy sound...)

I'm expecting some review copies in the mail today, so tonight's selections will be based on those titles.

If for some reason they don't arrive, I'll be Blu-raying it most likely, but not sure yet which film it will be. Maybe THE UNTOUCHABLES.

We checked into our swanky, beautiful hotel in West Hollywood. It has a huge tv and DVD player, etc. It also has an amazing view of LA. And on top of the hotel there's a pool with a stunning  360 degree view of LA. It's really magical. And in a quiet neighborhood, to boot! (Well, they probaby will boot you if you park in the neighborhood.)

We are getting a special rate through KCET, and would never spend this much on a hotel otherwise, so we have decided to splurge and stay at this hotel another night, instead of going to our regular cheapo one.

We had a great dinner at Chan Dara with DF Susan and another friend and his cousin. Jacques is French and loves to debate, so it always makes for lively discussion. I just usually sit back and listen while everyone gets wound up. He is so loveable and big-hearted that even if you disagree with him, you end up liking him anyway.

Today we're taking the producer and cameraman to the airport, then brunch with Susan at the beach, and then a long walk on the boardwalk. I hope we'll have time to shower off all the ocean before the book signing.

It's a beautiful day for a birthday in the Wood of Holly!

I wish I were there tonight to celebrate with fine food, finer company, and more laughter than you could shake a stick at.

Me, too! I mean, i wish YOU could be there. But I will try to be a good representative for all the DR's!

(Unfortunately, no pix until Sunday night....)

I love all those pictures, Michael Shayne! Some of them even look familiar---I must have seen some of those shows in my o-so-long-ago youth...

Hmm... A Cinnamon Sugar Brioche or an Oatmeal Raisin would go perfectly with this latte... Hmm... I wonder where I go could go to get one?  Hmm...

I wish I were there tonight to celebrate with fine food, finer company, and more laughter than you could shake a stick at.

Now that I will DITTO!

That's OK.  You can still sit next to me anyway.  

Just don't sit behind him, or you won't be able to see ..

.. or be seen (just ask DR Jane) ...

We had an interesting, if somewhat smallish, audience last night for Cinderella (Miss Oregon was out and her understudy played the part, which might have had something to do with it).  One of the grand old men of Portland theater (who has quite a few film/tv credits, you can look him up), Tobias Andersen, came and asked to meet me during intermission (he had forgotten we had met many years ago, LOL).  He asked if I'd be interested in working with him on some kind of musical adaptation of a 17th century Italian farce, or something like that.  He asked me what I'd been up to and since we had mentioned Susannah Mars,  I told him about my Frances/Judy show.    At which point, some guy who had been standing there said "Wow!  Indianapolis in 1967?"  And I asked him if he had grown up there--it turned out he had, remembered Frances (not well, having been born in 1960), but that his older brother remembered her very well and had gone on to be a successful screenwriter who had just moved back to Portland after years in L.A.  It turns out his brother is Angelo Pizzo, who wrote Hoosiers and Rudy!  

See Or Be Seen.

That's the title of...something or other.

DR edi, you should call my publisher and wonderful composer, Roger Bourland and say howdy.  Roger teaches composition at UCLA. He and his partner Daniel were my gracious hosts in West Hollywood last year.