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Some stuff I wanted to mention recently, but kept forgetting to add:
- Last June, when CJ and I came down to LA to find me a place to live, I bought a copy of The Big Sleep, which CJ read and I didn't. I've finally read it. And I'm about to say something incredibly obvious about it...it's a great book, especially in terms of dialogue. It's as tough to follow the story in the novel as it is in the movie, but just as in the movie, you don't care.
The dialogue was so wonderful, I wanted to rush upstairs and redo all the dialogue in my script. Except for the fact that I couldn't move any longer. But I have a goal now.
- Vanity Fair magazine arrived yesterday, and I had to vanityfair it. Here's what you do: you sit in a comfortable chair and page through the magazine. When you find page that has ads on both sides -- and you will, believe me -- lay the magazine down and rip the page firmly and quickly. If you leave bits of the page at the binding, pick out as many as you like, but it is not important to get them all. Repeat the ripping until you get to the end of the magazine. Generally, you will find the magazine is at least half the size it was, except during "special issues", when it will be a third of its former size.
- The story on Ah-nuld in this month's issue is an embarrassing powder puff. I mean, VF is usually powdery, but this one takes the cake. (The cake powder?)
- I'm watching lots of Seventies TV on A&E -- Banacek, McMillan and Wife...you know. Did Seventies TV seem this badly paced and cheesy back then?
One of the cheesy elements is that they have normal entrances and exits to scenes. Normal meaning "Hi, how are you, Frank?" "I'm fine, Tim, how are you?" BORING. And the actors look uncomfortable doing it. Get to the scene, get out of the scene. Forget the goodbyes already. I think most shows have dropped these, thankfully.
- Darin is still sick. Anybody know what a low-grade recurrent fever may indicate?
- Short Shameful Confession: I really really really like Bruce Willis. I like Bruce Willis movies. Bruce Willis is enough to predispose me to a project, and I don't even think it's a sexual thing. I just like wry, I guess.
The Fifth Element: Two thumbs up from Darin and Diane.
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