I'm assuming "The heart must bleed, not slobber." is Loesser's quote. I got it from the Frank Loesser songbook, in the introduction to The Most Happy Fella section:
"Loesser, although a deeply sentimental person himself, detested oversentimentality onstage; he took as his working slogan "The heart must bleed, not slobber. " The Most Happy Fella does not slobber, but it does make the heart bleed."
I have also found it a useful phrase particuarly when working with young creative executives (and they're usually neither creative or much of an executive) and young writers, who cannot distinguish between pathos and bathos, sentiment and rank sentimentality. I think it also makes a great watchword for all artists, who if not careful can go from a real poignancy of the heart into self-indulgent self-pity or self-obssession, both in their work and in their life.
Thanksgiving delicious side-dishes: hate giblets, love dressing if it is not too gussied up with extraneous crap and frou-frou...keep it pretty much bread, meat, nuts. Never much saw the point of cranberry sauce.
Roles I like to play: Cyrano DeBergerac, Richard III, Richard II, Flamineo in Webster's THE WHITE DEVIL, Pizarro in Shaffer's ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, Edward Damson in Shaffer's THE GIFT OF THE GORGON (the best play I've read in the last ten years), Henry II in both BECKETT & LION IN WINTER, and though I'm not a song and dance guy, I would love to do the The Poet in KISMET, Capt. Hook in PETER PAN (I'd love to do it in a non-musical version as well), and Jack Cassidy's role in SHE LOVES ME so I could sing ILLONA, or Cassidy's role in SUPERMAN just so I could sing YOU'RE THE WOMAN FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING. There are scads of other roles I loved to play.
