A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella [I go around acting like such an expert on dance now].
COMING UP: Zbigniew Herbert, Roald Dahl, Michael Chabon.
Plays
SAW: Changes: A Science Fiction Tap Dance Opera (Chicago Tap Theater) [a papasan death ray was involved].
Movies
SAW: Battleship Potemkin.
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS
THEME: Irish Americans.
KITO'S SELECTION: The Brothers McMullen (dir. Burns, 1995).
MINE: Long Day's Journey into Night (Lumet, 1962) [Kito's analysis in toto: "A little long, don't you think?"].
Music
PURCHASED: How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying: Original Broadway Cast Recording, The Pajama Game: Original Broadway Cast Recording [see "Glitter," below, for my favorite number].
DOWNLOADED: "Mr. Mistoffelees," Cats [judge not, lest ye be judged].
Food
ATE: "Cross the Bridge" [or something like that] soup [rice noodles and sliced meats] and lamb with cumin @ Spring World.
Current Interests
Oprah, attractive men, my day job, the BFF, Chicago theater, pop, comedy, movies, primetime television, travel, literature, my childhood, the burbs, musicals, Chicago politics.
Fool's Four
MY FAVORITE JUNK FOOD ITEMS:
1. Diet pop.
2. Peanut M&Ms.
3. Pop-Tarts.
4. The Real Housewives of Orange County.
A Foolish Flashback
FOUR YEARS AGO: "Number of entries preceding this one: 299."
Glitter
ELSEWHERE:
My reviews of Dixie's Tupperware Party and Black Ensemble Theater's All in Love Is Fair are in this week's Time Out Chicago.
