I'll take it. Truth is I forgot this morning who PF was, but I had, during my exploration of words with UF initials run across Francesca, so maybe that WAS it.
Focus, osso.
FG
you, you, you, smartie!!!
Yep.
While we're waiting for fealola to come back and start a new round, I thought I'd report, as promised, on last night's performance of Henry IV. I still have some reservations about whether it's a good idea to combine both parts of Henry IV into one play (after all, Shakespeare wrote them as two plays, and I think we have to assume he knew what he was doing), but, taking those reservations into account, I enjoyed the show anyway. Kevin Kline gave a wonderful performance as Falstaff, making the character more sympathetic than usual (more emphasis on Falstaff's wit, and less on his less appealing characteristics). Ethan Hawke's portrayal of a Hotspur in a perpetual state of bad temper was funny, if a bit on the modern side. And good work all around from too many other good actors to name.
The show is apparently a hot ticket. I heard a woman in the row behind me telling her friends that her husband couldn't attend last night, and that she was pleased to have sold his ticket to someone outside the theater for $50. She was then very surprised when the young man who sat down in the seat next to her a few minutes later was not the same person to whom she had sold the ticket. Realizing that she had sold her husband's ticket to a scalper, she asked the young man how much he had paid for the ticket. His answer: $110!
Good Morning and Happy New year to Margo! Bree, I love your "New York Stories" -- keep em coming!
M N
M N
Real, live male
17 questions to go
(Frank Gehry is the man of the moment around here!)
Great story, Bree. I hope that fellow who bought the ticket enjoyed the show as much as you did.
Michael Nouri
Mike Nichols
Yes, thanks for the report on HenryIV, bree. Amazing that even B'way tickets are scalped - and Shakespeare no less!
Mornin', all - and Happy New Year!
May it be filled it wonder and joy (and the initials of at least some people I've heard of!) (who's Frank G and Mike Ni...??)
Elvis Presley
Happy New Year, Margo.
Mike Nichols is a movie director. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate and Catch-22 are just a few of his films. He also performed comedy routines with his former wife, Elaine May. He was just honored at the Kennedy Center. That Frank Gehry fellow is an architect. Osso or Fealola will have to tell you more about him.
Not:
Elvis Presley
Evan Picone (I don't know who this is, but the name came into my head - musta read it somewhere!)
Evan Picone is a clothing, etc., designer.
Not:
Elvis Presley
Evan Picone
YES, Mac. Edith Piaf is correct.
