Suddenly, a musical broke out!
Improv Everywhere are really really cool artists, and if I happen to hear about a mission happening near me, I’m there.
Baldwin Hills, California. March 2008. A napkin. Lemonade. Art.
July 8, 2008
September 11, 2007
August 27, 2006
If you like good television…
May I recommend the upcoming Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
Mondays starting Sept. 18 on NBC; if you have Netflix, you can get the pilot now on DVD, as we did.
The show is from the original West Wing team of Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme. Here’s the setup: A writing/directing team (Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry) are brought back to save a Saturday-Night-Live-like show - four years after they were fired from that same show. The chairman of the network, who fired them before, still hates them, but he’s setting up the new head of programming to fail. It’s much better than I describe it here, including Judd Hirsch in a meltdown right out of Network, and a nice cameo by Ed Asner.
One minor difficulty with the DVD: Chris and I are both somewhat dependent on closed-captioning, and this preview DVD isn’t captioned.
February 7, 2005
Who Are Hastings, Clayton & Tucker?
During a recent flight, I learned this Important Legal Fact from the inflight magazine:
Barry Manilow is a registered trademark of Hastings, Clayton & Tucker, Inc.
Well. Does this mean that the man - the genius - behind I Write the Songs and Copacabana is a legal fiction? Did he never exist? And if that’s the case, who’s playing the Vegas Hilton?
My guess: The man inside c-3PO: Anthony Daniels. Note the eerie resemblance. And you never, never see Barry Manilow and Anthony Daniels together. Or even Barry Manilow and C-3PO.
And the Vegas Hilton does have a well-known connection to science fiction.
So what’s the real story? We may never know. The shadowy firm of Hastings, Clayton & Tucker, Inc. does not seem to have its own Web site. More details as we get them…