Then I finished liner notes four, got them on their merry way, and did half of liner notes five, after which I had to be on my way to my editor's house to see his first cuts of the two Sandy Bainum music videos. They were really excellent, and I only had one minor little change in each - so those are locked and done and I will post both of them in the notes. I was there about two hours, then headed home. Oh, and I picked up two packages - one contained the new book of Leonard Bernstein letters, the other Serpico Blu and Ray. I put that in to see what it was like and what it was like was defective - a mass of digital blockage, so back it goes. Of course, thanks to Cyber Monday, one can't even access the Amazon site. I was intending to watch a motion picture and had started to do so, when I got a telephonic call that caused me to go absolutely ballistic. I have been so good and nice about making adjustments in our show and trying things that I don't believe in at all - but yesterday I got a suggestion that I could not believe and I said no - via e-mail. I said it was a number that was working perfectly at every run and every performance and that I was not willing to do anything to it. And then I was asked again this evening - and I said no again and I mean it. I would not even broach it with the actors involved and it's completely wrong-headed and on this one issue I'm not bending. I have made a couple of comprises along the way, and now, I suppose, it's time for the compromise to come from the other direction. I'm hoping we have no further discussion about it, because if we do I know Kay Cole will not be happy - she thinks it's just about the worst idea she's ever heard and she, too, dearly loves the number as I conceived it and will brook no changes to it - and believe me if you think I'm bad you should hear Kay Cole when she's not happy.
