A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw [I don't care what anyone says: the ending is entirely unsatisfactory, and the makers of My Fair Lady were quite right to fix it]; Our Town by Thornton Wilder [the good news: I can't get David Cromer's voice out of my head when I read the Stage Manager's lines; the bad news: I can't get David Schwimmer's voice out of my head when I read George's].
COMING UP: Shakespeare's tragedies.
Movies
SAW: Where the Wild Things Are [it's a downer], The Phantom of the Opera [the old Lon Chaney one].
THIS WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
THEME: Queer Cinema.
KITO'S SELECTION: Eleven Men Out.
MINE: The Boys in the Band.
Current Interests
Sex, 30 Rock, American Theater Company, the South, my health, Sarah Palin, David Cromer, race, Philip Roth, the Film Center, Shaw, Adam Lambert, 80s movies, Glee, cubicle life, the grotesque.
Fool's Four
FOUR RECURRING DREAMS I HAVE:
1. The one about the rats.
2. The one with the weird bouncy flying.
3. The one where my teeth fall out.
4. The one with the scary subterranean gay bar (don't ask).
Foolish Flashbacks
TWO YEARS AGO: "'So I'm an eighty year-old woman,' I said. 'Stop the presses.'"
THREE YEARS AGO: "Consign 'Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends' to the rubbish bin? Perish the thought!"
Glitter
Over at The New Yorker's movie blog, the 1957 film version of The Pajama Game is the DVD of the week. Never let it be said that I couldn't pick up a cue.
ELSEWHERE:
My mini-review of Seanachai Theatre Company's Mojo Mickybo is in this week's Chicago Reader.
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