What’s up with Gringos? No Spanish before Bad Better Bunny?
Desi Arnaz and Bob Hope on Johnny Carson
Was watching this the day, yesterday, Diane Keaton died. Absolutely true! R U spooking me Diane or am I spooking myself?! Suffice: the world’s a ‘spooky’ place and this David Letterman interview reveals all earthly ghostly worth. Loving the dress sense: “A suit that I bought [for this interview]”. Only Dave: “bought as opposed to finding”. Only…may you spook us forever into reality Ms. Diane Keaton.
All the art openings, all the art fairs, surely this Tate Modern Nigerian Modernism show is one of recent years’ must-sees!
To Onobrakpeya, affectionately called Baba Bruce within art circles, Nigerian Modernism is "a transfer of the old ideas, old items, old technologies, old thought into a different, modern time". It is "projecting the present, and showing the way towards the future".
ME-OW!
RAGTIME surely one of Broadway’s legends. Novels never can be impossible. Non sequitur. Films thus. Possible. Climbing grace. Even. But a musical?!! Takes sheer cliff face brilliance to reach that summit. In the 1998 Tony Awards that year competition was The Lion King. Remembering Andrew Lloyd-Webber accepting Oscar Evita Best Song and quipping ‘It’s a good thing The English Patient didn’t have a song’.:) Akin the greatest musicals, books, films RAGTIME’s about one thing, yet equally about everything. Forevermore.
Back to Before: a penultimate number not quite thus.
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Is it lack of imagination that makes us come
to imagined places, not just stay at home?
Or could Pascal have been not entirely right
about just sitting quietly in one's room?
Continent, city, country, society:
the choice is never wide and never free.
And here, or there . . . No. Should we have stayed at home,
wherever that may be?
Halloween Week! KITTY and ANDREW’s impossible double-bill: Watch these two films in a row and KITTY’s ‘hat’ is ‘boatman’s prize’!
Seance on a Wet Afternoon Only the Brits could make that latter movie. Dampness seeping ever so into one’s veins.
Must I credit Jimmy Kimmel’s researchers for this: long live dying on air!:)
Not spooky, though surely Misty Copeland’s mountain of shy flowers suddenly will spring to stems and dance when the curtain falls. Never was easy: God love her for soldiering on and bringing so much joy. me-ow! “ ‘ ” “ ‘ ” “ ‘ ” “ ‘ ” “ ‘ ”
Honesty? Worth watching Anatomy of a Fall again or indeed a first time. Quite the exceptional screenplay. So many great French movies every year barely see the light outside their regions. So many actors could have played that lead. Sandra Hüller the blank slate. Every chalk mark. We’ve returned to the classroom. Exactly not fun. If observant we learn. Frustrated. A universal trait and critique.
QUAND BIEN MÊME LANCÉ DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ÉTERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE
Prunella Scales died. Faulty Towers anyone? A household name in the U.K. Back in the day when TV wasn’t global. Prunella so helpful and kind to me. Got me an interview with her agent..Maybe I wasn’t ready. Maybe, maybe I wasn’t a lot of things. But I knew when to ask! And listen. This is a tale not about me but about YOU! If you read this website and think it’s about me then: you’re an idiot. Unfair perhaps. It’s all about you having the courage to ask, to think, to say there is more to me than the ‘norm’. The courage to ask. 99% wasted time. Only need 1% for faith renewal. Don’t gonna be like ‘them’. Be inspired yet be YOU! Easier way than sounds. Be your cruelest critic not the biggest fan!
Funniest comment ever re: Faulty Towers. An American comedian on Have I Got News For You or some such: wasn’t till I visited Britain that I realized that FT was a hard hitting documentary. Some things never change…’)
Know what did ‘tear up’ many furry creatures this year was The Last Showgirl. Not particularly revelatory in script but in emotional execution OMG! Can’t blame a furry creature submissive to all those cat/dog/etc shows. What’s wrong with love, attention, the spotlight?! Well. When Shelly’s estranged daughter Hannah finally returns calls, reconnects, finally sees Le Razzle Dazzle: the disappointment in both. Heartbreaking. Wanting so quietly so much of each. And Jamie Lee Curtis, well, never ceasing to amaze everyone with invention! Pamela Anderson! Sui generis! No false notes.
Sadness, resilience, beautificence.
Archie Rice [The Entertainer]: Don't clap too loudly, it's a very old building.
Carol Burnett! Every appearance a joy! So there’s dread gone of another Winter:) No family, significant others, simply tending creatures in mind. Curl, purr, ‘drink the Cool cooky Aid’ on the sofa, watch Palm Royale. And The Diplomat [S3] and those Mubi movies. And some of those crazy creature showreels: rapping Iguanas keeping up body temp in Miami learning to ice skate! Spring seems rather so boring now! And who the hell is this amazing creature?! Effortless above the water.
The great Rosalind Elias [worshipped by many opera singers] She had the ‘balls’ to suggest/ask Samuel Barber that her character needed a song. He obliged. And though VANESSA isn’t an opera house staple it is something great, pure, prized. The simplicity of Barber’s response became in a way the opera’s keystone. Seeming almost nothing yet everything.
Us all will linger in mind long after heard no more. More for some than others.
Hearin’ Lainey Wilson singin’ above? Is it that one knows what’s missed. Still, still missing?
