All That Glitters 141

A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.

Books
READ: Shakespeare's Sonnets, ed. by Katherine Duncan-Jones [these are some gay-ass poems, y'all].
COMING UP: Charles Nicholl, August Strindberg, Robert Gottlieb.

Plays
SAW: The Feast: An Intimate Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater/Redmoon) [more on this later].

Movies
SAW: The Artist [that dog should've gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor].
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
THEME: Jack Lemmon.
KITO'S SELECTION: Some Like It Hot (dir. Wilder, 1959) [See Glitter, below, for a clip].
MINE: The Odd Couple (Saks, 1968) [I really liked the layout of Oscar's apartment].

Art
SAW: "Teenie Harris, Photographer" @ Harold Washington Library Center [fascinating photos of Pittsburgh's predominantly African-American Hill District during the middle of the 20th century].

Television
WATCHING: 30 Rock (NBC), Parks and Recreation (NBC), Project Runway All Stars (Lifetime), The Simpsons (Fox), The Good Wife (CBS), Glee (Fox), Parenthood (NBC) [I've finally caught up, just in time for next week's third season finale], Top Chef Texas (Bravo) [go Paul!].

Current Interests
Conservatives, lesbians, Chicago theater, photography, animals, Daniel Radcliffe, food, TV, Kito, female vocalists, the 1980s, single ladies, anti-gay bullying, the Beatles, comedy, Eugene O'Neill, the Oscars, books.

Fool's Four
FOUR THINGS I'M LOOKING FOR IN AN APARTMENT:
1. An office.
2. A dining area.
3. Sunlight.
4. The answer to all my problems.

Flashbacks
ONE YEAR AGO: "Larry Bommer: rememberer of old shows, righter of wrongs."
TWO YEARS AGO: "Something to keep in mind at a karaoke bar: there are unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."
FOUR YEARS AGO: "I am Dr. James Dobson's worst nightmare."
SIX YEARS AGO: "Playwright Richard Greenberg never lets the fact that he has little to say get in the way of his saying a lot."

Glitter