Of all the movies in the world right now: why would anyone want watch Blue Moon? You gotta have heart, miles and miles of heart. Sentimental, indulgent. Really? Does this translate ‘cross any territories? A Perhaps. A very unusual way. mmmmm..
I'm wise
And I know what time it is now
And still..These foolish things remind me of you
Speaking of showrunners…..HACKS has another season! #5 Spring 2026. And that’s it! Forever! Hannah wants to run for …her life! Ok, no Jean Smart jokes like David Byrne and Burning Down the House…how are all those Palisades and Altadena folks doing’ one year later.? The world has moved on…but does it change
Never again in this world, but oh/ Sure as you breathe I am there inside you…
Check out Megan Stalter in Lena Dunham’s Too Much. They’re all really great! No being nice, simply true! Loved the line about this American moving to her friend’s ‘estate’. Yes: London has it’s non Bridgerton moments btw. We’re talking Altman not…
anycat. Banlieue without baguettes.
non je ne baguette rien….HUNTRX version…so Rental Family. NO! All’s going too far! Reality..Ooops there goes another rubber tree plant…
Thinking of merry ‘ol England, King Charles’ doc Finding Harmony will be a wee surprise for some. Britain’s Royal Family always polarized people. Probably unjustly so. John Oliver’s 15year rant against American injustice born of British such. The word monarchy nowadays an even bigger problematic noun than before. Obviously. Credit where some ‘monarchy’ is due. Even as a kid/teenager/young adult the now King Charles has never wavered form his belief in a better society for all. Not the few. Passion for a sustainable society. Healthy before wealthy. Just watch the goddamn doc and then tell me he’s a ’snob’!
So pleased Ragtime’s revival still getting coverage. Wouldn’t it be great to have a dinner party with [Alan Cumming immediately raising his ‘paw’ without me even finishing the sentence. Such belief Sir Alan;)] A dinner party with Dick Rogers, Lorenz Hart et al and the composers of Wicked, Sunday in the Park With George, Nine, The Secret Garden, Les Miserables, Cats, and of course RAGTIME. No, not a play Steve Martin! The real deal!!!
Ooops, we forgot Jason Robert Brown. We have a little Vietnamese plastic stool. Won’t diminish your enjoyment of the evening. Oh! Wait! There’s a few very scratched fauteuils in storage from when a cat visited. Times are A-changin’…Or not!
And just to be clear, all those who’ve refused British Empire awards, John Oliver/ Alan Cumming et al, have done so in applaudable moral/ethical certainty, not some ‘knee-jerk’ Left Wing sentimental mentality! The idea of British Empire hasn’t simply been tarnished over the centuries…don’t finish that sentence ‘kittens’! Every Wednesday, the Queen now King Charles III meets with the Prime Minister. Perhaps. Perhaps in the past it was simply a ceremonial gesture. Now, now it could be very useful. No monarch has ever used its power to dissolve British government. Yet! Governments come and go without even a Michelangelo. King Charles III has seen everything. And architects may rightly criticized his comments on the National Gallery extension as a “carbuncle”. And maybe his new town Poundbury on a Duchy estate could have been more innovative. Residents seem very smiley though. Surely a world away from the poorly designed/executed 50s-70s even 80s estate tower blocks throughout England! Now decayed and indeed a “carbuncle” on their inhabitants’ psyche.
You cannot but have both empathy and sympathy for Prince Harry. Meghan. Prince William. Two brothers with the same mother/father yet seeming such different kids. But they can’t never just be ‘kids’. All families [OK well most..clearly not ‘yours’;)] are dysfunctional varying only in degrees. Modern climate change?! Yo! Kiss and tell let alone born again tell never a great idea. Though sure sells books, spin-offs etc. .
Probably best King Charles III didn’t listen to this podcast on his way to America. Possibly best that everyone else did. If only to keep our brains active and alive! We don’t need no education ….!!!
A break. Gonna check on my ostrich client, tryin’ convince her that burying head in sand ‘schtick’ just don’t work no more.
Richard Pryor anyone? Undisputed Mel Brooks for, well, normal folk?! Suffering art for ain’t any given. Ain’t necessarily so! As Jennifer Lee, Pryor’s wife noted in interview: there was Richard on stage and screen and…well, at home. She fell in love with the latter. And lovingly scattered his ashes, finally, [thanks to a doc?] where peace was. Sometimes Anima Mundi forces are truly. And they were: just so for Richard Pryor.
Nathan Lane i’d make a great Willy Loman;) Nothing cynical in Willy; optimism only in Nathan! Arthur Miller never wrote a bad play, some only more perfect than others. Nor Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie and Death of a Salesman, what an impossible double bill. Parents seeking only better for their offspring. Only!
One of my treasures from the 90s. No Google translate back then!! The spine always purrfect until trod upon opening a window yesterday. Never even lugged it to Strehler when I interviewed him. …now that dinner party’s filling up…hey old friends..
Just had a ‘paw-mail’ from Christoph Waltz: “I’ll find where Cedric lived in your brain and re-animate him!” See: courage! Oom-Pah-Pah…
Is Only Murders in the Building too knowing? Well, we’ll find out in Season 6 set in London? Does NYC co-op politics/ duplicity/ greed travel? Surely. How they tweak that NYC uniqueness, there’s the rub. A willful docu quality placing Only Murders strangely in place: not Agatha Christie, nor certainly Mel Brooks. Nor Hitchcock. Did the once crazy Steve Martin thinking o’er all those decades distill to this mortality? Quintessence? You decide. Paradise perhaps easier for to fall asleep. Haven’t seen Season 2.
Ornella Vanoni [1934-2025]
