Tryin’ findin’ smilin’ again, lookin’ at how not good life could’ve been. And along come two buses at once:
When Mr. Ricky sells out everywhere he goes one just knows there’s hope, well maybe not the planet, for those folk at least. Then a rhizome squiges the doorbell [advanced creepin’, respect!] turning them all mad. Or as some might say, normal.
Everything is cool as long as you get there. Mountainhead. All a bit ‘silly’, rather obvious, therein ‘the rub lies’, our future’s deadly “transhuman” game happening all too soon with all too much talk and no action. A ‘boys own’ adventure reeking of antiseptic.
But here on queue to cheer us up PBS’ Great Performances and their live filming of Kiss Me Kate [London’s Barbican 2024 Summer hit]. Premiered on Broadway in 1948, the following year it won the first Tony Award for Best Musical. If you’ve never seen these iconic Cole Porter songs in context they do “simply mystify you” leaving one in awe of his genius.
Embattled memory takes things apart; complacent nostalgia squashes them back together.
Anything: Meoww Goes: Mmeiow
New season of HBO’s The Gilded Age. I trust their research until not. Few films/series ever seeked/explored real olde New York. Respect: Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Soderbergh’s The Knick [NYC’s Knickerbocker Hospital serving primarily poor and immigrant patients]. What will NYC be in …OK it’s Happy Hour let’s not go there!
HACKS [S4 finale] OK no spoilers but is Network’s Paddy Chayefsky here still in spirit? Ever did die?! Somehow, somewhere we in time believe.
KITTY and ANDREW’s Weird Weekly Double Bill: Kinda’y ‘Criterion Cat’s Closet’…
Courtesy: LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY
Absolutely the kind of photography ANDREW and KITTY j’adore!
Why, only yesterday in Albany a cat was dog-attacked by owner for wearing bowtie and cravat! Sunday. The street. Church! Where is the hand of….?
Only watched this one vid of Gab Small, so throwing caution to the wind…mine eyes have busy life Gab! But we know human when we see it! Hunting MICE at night….those rumors just ain’t true. KITTY will get back to you about appearing on her syndicated lifestyle show.
DONT’T drink the Vodka or-less Debra Vance, stasis. Surely Aristotle drank. Too. Excuse Athens banishment. Mine ears a Cole Porter song comin’ on….Vodka dear…true dear…the true deer outside our window dear….are devouring, so in love..!
Oh, dear Patti LuPone. Are you still shouting! Yikes. So was/am I I! Decades later. Worlds apart. All could all hear you back Sydney’s Evita in the corridor even with firedoor closed! Yet never played Taming of the Shrew;)I Have no idea why/what/wherefore you shout. Nor still. What I have learnt over decades is shouting is for folk with no voice. And you Patti have one helluva voice.
Audra McDonald reflects on playing Mama Rose in Gypsy
Patti LuPone - Gypsy Tony Awards Performance
It’s all about finding your tribe, isn’t it? Alas, just when things look swell, an ant or flea will question: is it all really great? So many relatives died on your plate! Well, respect: Bolshevik: Ant/Flea Musical. Next Spring on a tiny Broadway plate near YOU! Lin-Manuel Miranda was BEE-zy, so Ivo van Mehy stepped up to the plate. Can we watch Real San Diego Housewives now?!
Supercalifantilisticexflealiadocious!
Let’s have a great Tony Awards 2025 even though everyone wants to SHOUT LIKE HELL! Let us all just sing…and believe..
And for all ya ‘cheap crits’ out there George Clooney’s Good Night, Good Luck is streaming for FREE tonight [June 7-LIVE-oh. do ‘break a leg’ Mr.C;)] on CNN. Ahhhh…everyone likes CNN again;) Was kinda hoping that after COVID arts streaming- Berlin, Hamburg, New York [Lincoln Center were streaming recent archive tapes i.e. The Wolves]. Could this be a new normal? Helas! You’re missing a treat and financial steal not binging the London National Theater’s filmed performances. It’s a possible model everyone, rights issues extant. End of Covid, Isabelle Huppert streamed live in The Glass Menagerie from Paris, 12Euros approx. Emotional earthquake tremors Why don’t we shake up theater potential? Enough said. So Smokehouse Pictures and Litter Industries have a deal Mr.C.! Filmed theatrical human entertainment, inclusive of creatures. Felines ready to scratch, rats ready to sign! ANDREW’s eyeing up a tiny island…OK, in the middle of a lake but it’s got frog ‘n’ toad approval. Ants and fleas face a challenge. Give them a dream! At least it won’t sink into the sea!
Was thinking overtime for an ending to all this. At least this post, maybe not the end of time. Helas! [scroll down to Both Sides Now- ANDREW before KITTY was even cookin’ in his belly and heart]. KITTY never born with ANDREW’s fingers. Helas. Or maybe hooray! Still young, optimistic, carefree. So with all the AMAZING talent and INNOVATION on Broadway nowadays: don’t be daunted! Today’s kids have the means to speak/sing/shout/think what’s on their minds. All’s needed, a room and an internet. No money, power, greed! A bit of confidence doesn’t equate ego. Though above all, where is your moral compass? That shit matters! Human compass lives matter! Otherwise one is everywhere yet nowhere, and ultimately in search of nothing.
