Match.com

A la Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)



This is one of my favorite scenes ever and I found it!

Holy Mary Mother of AWESOME!

You need to see Opening Night (1977). There is nothing like it. These pictures are boring but they were all I could find. This movie contains:

• one of the best performances I've ever seen (Gena Rowlands)
• the best exploration of what it's like to work in the theater (an exploration which DOESN'T make fun of us), especially perhaps for a woman
  
• one of the most shocking "shock moments" I've ever seen
• one of the most suspenseful sequences I've ever seen
• one of the most extended and nerve-wracking improvs I've ever seen (between Rowlands and John Cassavetes, no less, real-life life partners)
• one of the best apartments I've ever seen
• and one of the best DVD bonus features I've ever seen (a 20 minute present day conversation about the movie between Rowlands and Ben Gazzara)

If you act in or direct or write plays, you should see this. I've been waiting for it to be available on DVD and it was worth it. It's one of the best movies I've seen in years. Like all Cassavetes movies, it's a mental, emotional and time investment (2.5 hrs), but if you tune into it it pays off.

So, I uh, I guess this is really happening, then? Is that what I'm to understand?

EEEEEE!!!

I can't wait for Jerry Springer: The Opera at Speakeasy. Isn't this the most fun rehearsal photo ever! Tim has such nice arms!

Oh, yay, there's more of these!!!

Research.

So I had a FABULOUS voiceover audition today to play Mrs. Potatohead (not sure what for, but it pays GREAT), and I NAILED it. I may not get it, but if I don't I'll be shocked, because they asked us to watch videos of Toy Story 2 and approximate her voice, and I mean, I WAS her. I WAS Mrs. Potatohead.



And in my YouTube browsing, I found THIS hilarious Toy Story 2/Requiem for a Dream mash-up trailer, which will be more funny if you've seen at least the latter film. It's really well done, and kind of haunting...

Thoughts...

In this noisy and exhausting debate we're hearing about torture right now, this is one of the most interesting bits... watch Lawrence O'Donnell hit the nail on the head.

I have a new album I'm into. I usually just buy a couple tracks but I'm giving the whole thing a go, for once. It's called The Dead Texan by The Dead Texan. You probably won't like it. It's depressing.

We opened Picasso. Now that we're in front of big, generous audiences, I'm having a great time. May they stay this big and keep on laughin'.

Tonight Larry, a friendly critic, was asking me what roles I'd like to play next and when I'll get to play a really evil villain, and that I should beware of being typecast. I said I thought I'd gotten to play a wide range of roles over the last several years, but he could not quite concur. Huh.

What villains do I want to play? Fun problem...

Fuck!

Has anyone noticed that the temperatures in Boston from Saturday to Tuesday are forcasted to range from 75- 79 degrees?

I should be happy about this, but what this means for ME and other allergic-types is that the flowers and tress and bushes are going to BLOW. Pollen crisis here we come...

I'll be in the theater most of the time anyway.

I've got a long summer ahead of me.

Can you believe there was a time when Michael C. Hall was the uptight clean shaven guy and Peter Krause was the hot scruffy guy?

NOW look at him...



All easy and stubbly and bedroomy. I like the new look and I think Jennifer is probably great for him. And best of all, I'm like 3 or 4 years behind on Six Feet Under, so I think I better just start at the beginning again.

I will say that the finale of Dexter Season 2 was annoying. Lila's end was too much of a coda, not bitter enough, and not enough of an event. And where will Season 3 take us? Only people with cable can say. And I'm not one of them.

I am so psyched...

...to go into press opening on the worst day of my period with hay fever AND a cold that includes a watery right eye, a runny, sneezy nose and a painful, semi-productive cough. Too much information? That's YOUR problem!

Sorry, that was the drugs talking....

A good birthday!

Not that the 5 or so folks who read my blog don't already know, but I learned today that I was nominated for a Norton this year for Blackbird! And the awards ceremony just happens to fall on my birthday, so that's a party enough for me. Al Pacino will be there accepting an award for the late Paul Benedict, and they will be honoring Rick with a special award (so he and Rachel will be there, as well as many of my favorite people!) I am SO psyched to get nominated and since I very well may not win, I'd like to thank everyone who supported me!

So glad I live in Boston and get to work with all these great people...and hang out in the Sanders theater for a few hours:

In case you were wondering where Drew got some inspiration...

I'm astonished!

This doesn't look half bad! Maureen was right, Drew worked hard to recreate Little Edie, and I think it's going to pay off. Good for her.

You poor, poor darlings!!!

Is there anything funnier than this? No. I love how "The Change" for Robert Young is that his right arm is no longer paralyzed and his face is no longer disfigured by the war, and "The Change" for Dorothy Maguire is that her hair is fluffed up and she's plucked her eyebrows. So The Enchanted Cottage (1945) magically makes the couple see one another as "fair and handsome," while everyone else sees the horrible, ugly, debilitating truth of a bad side part. I mean, really, Mrs. Price says they can't get jobs and shouldn't leave the house!

Oh, the humanity.

I am actually going somewhere finally.

This is another video from Viv, but now, on top of it being totally scary, it's relevant to my life because I am going to ESTONIA! For a day! While I'm on a cruise through Scandinavia and Russia! In August! Are you excited yet! Because I AM!



I hope Suur Toll doesn't throw any rocks at me! Actually if you watch the whole thing you'll see that Suur Toll was a pretty good guy. But that singing! Poky just ran out of the room!

Oh, and p.s.: I just had dinner at Henrietta's Table and a cockroach nearly climbed into my lap. NEVER go there.

Sexiest dance ever?

I just saw Sarah in Picnic, and she was GREAT, in a great role. Afterwards she was telling me about the dance scene in the 1955 movie, and how William Holden felt that a.) he was to old for the role and b.) he couldn't dance well enough for the role. Well he took the job anyway, but he had to be drunk to do this scene (which is apparent). And then I notice on YouTube there are a whole bunch of clips of this moment, saying it's the sexiest thing ever, which I don't think it is...



It's pretty sexy, but a little wooden on Kim's part. If you wanna see Classic Sexy, check out Eli Wallach and Carrol Baker in Babydoll.

Behold, THE SEXIEST classic movie scene ever:



I think Carrol may need someone to bring her a dry pair of panties after this take. Fun fact: It was freezing the day they shot this scene, so some of the cuddling is a result of both of them trying to be as close as possible to an off-camera space heater. I hope that doesn't ruin the sexy. It doesn't for me!

I would like my hour or my $25.00 back, please.

I don't mean to be a total asshole here, but I just came back from seeing/hearing The Books at the ICA and I think it may have been the wrong choice for me this evening. After darting away from a perfectly good dinner discussion with my sister and my cousins Ruthie and Catherine, I sat in the tastefully modern ICA performance space and watched two guys play guitars and a cello, hit play on a DVD projector, and push buttons on a computer which was playing most of the actual music for about an hour. I left before the encore.

There's nothing wrong with what The Books do. Their music is interesting and fairly original, and their videos are strange and at times enjoyable. But I'm in a business where people work there asses off right in front of you night after night, and to go see a couple guys sit in chairs and introduce videos while plucking a few chords and remembering most, but not all, of their own lyrics, is not exciting. It's droll.

Their videos are mostly available on YouTube, and the music on iTunes, and it's not like anyone in the audience was even bobbing their head along to the music. It was an almost entirely static experience. This doesn't stop me from respecting or buying their music, but next time I walk into a theater to hear a "band" and there's a movie screen hanging where the drum kit should be, I should just leave. And I should accept that most of the music I like is just computers and I'll enjoy it more in my car than in a theater, no matter now cool the ICA is.

I can't WAIT for Lila to die!

I'm drooling. It's gonna be sooooo good. I'm only a few episodes away, I think.

In just 3 minutes and 37 seconds...

Rodrigo y Gabriela take a studio audience full of people who have never heard of them and probably just want to hear the Top 10 List, and turn them into instant, committed, enthusiastic fans. The crowd comes together as one. That's what happens when you're totally awesome and doing something new. Even Dave is impressed.

Magic!

Thanks, Viv, for the intro!

Wow, that sure was... independent.

Eagle Vs. Shark (2007): I love you Jemaine, but I need a little more funny and a little less mullet.

What do YOU think?

I have really mixed feelings about this: