A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim [the lyrics are primo, of course, but Sondheim's commentaries? Niggling, pedantic, joyless].
Movies
SAW: The King's Speech [I mean, I was glad he got through his radio address and all, but it sort of irritated me how everybody in the movie acted like this guy's stammer was the most difficult problem anyone in Europe was facing in 1939], Psycho [have you ever noticed that the dude who plays Janet Leigh's boyfriend is really hot? Somehow it had escaped my notice in previous viewings].
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
THEME: French history.
KITO'S SELECTION: Quills (dir. Kaufman, 2000).
MINE: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928).
Music
PURCHASED: Finian's Rainbow: Original Broadway Cast Recording [at the closing sale at the Uptown Borders].
Art
SAW: William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg (ThinkArt) [splattered paint on boards from the former, photographs of Beats from the latter--and speaking of hot, how about that Jack Kerouac?].
Food
ATE: Coctel de camarones, ropa vieja, and pineapple sorbet @ Habana Libre [turns out I ADORE Cuban cuisine].
Current Interests
Patti LuPone, my appearance, travel, my dog Lucy, movies, Kito, the Reader, Liza Minnelli, copy editing, my day job, Chicago history, Glee, my adolescence, food, comedy.
Fool's Four
FOUR ITEMS I PURCHASED IN UPTOWN BORDERS' GOING-OUT-OF-BUSINESS SALE:
1. Finian's Rainbow: Original Broadway Cast Recording.
2. How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying: Original Broadway Cast Recording.
3. The Pajama Game: Original Broadway Cast Recording.
4. Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary [second edition].
Foolish Flashbacks
ONE YEAR AGO: "'Are you actors?' I asked. 'No,' his wife replied, 'just Russian.'"
FOUR YEARS AGO: "Haven't you heard that a scrotum lift is all the rage with older Hollywood now? Robert Redford just had his done a year ago."
FIVE YEARS AGO: "It is to my mind a display of monstrous ignorance not to know your Isabel Sanford from your Esther Rolle.
Glitter
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