NY Times used to have a series where the reporter would sit with two celebs. One that stands out was a conversation with Anjelica Houston and Sophia Coppola. Both are third generation Oscar winners. That’s the kind of interview I like to read.
Vapid interview, don’t bother. mho
I kind of think that lloyd’s of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.
Nice story. Thank you for posting it
Years ago I picked up the book ‘Gone Girl.’ I got about twenty pages into it and put it down because I couldn’t stand the smug, entitled yuppie narrator.
Later, I watched and enjoyed the movie, and read some of the author’s other books.
It made me realize what a good writer she is; she made me hate a character so much that I couldn’t read the book.
Serious question.
What’s the last thing in entertainment that you think was known to everyone in the USA? I’m not talking about Taylor Swift dating a football player. I mean a brand new act coming out and all kinds of people excited.
I can’t think of anything.
Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]
The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.
I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.
Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator’s premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new ‘companies’ begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry
It was amazing, then got weak after Dalton left. mho
I was thinking about it this morning.
Look at Beatle-mania or Spice Girl-mania.
Back in the day, 100 million people were aware of one big thing and it brought them together.
Today with the internet, you’ve got a million different ‘big things’ each with 100 fans.
Robin and Steve Martin once did ‘Waiting For Godot’ at Lincoln Center.
Apparently there’s no video avaialble
Reminds me of an old joke.
A beautiful princess is galivanting across the sward one fine morning. She comes upon a muddy pond. A frog jumps out of the slimy water and bows at her feet.
“Oh princess, I am under the curse of an evil witch. If you give me but a single kiss I shall return to my true form. Kiss me and I’ll become the world’s best drummer.”
The princess gathers her skirts, bends over, picks up the frog, and shoves him into her purse.
“Aren’t you going to kiss me and break the witch’s spell?”
“Hell, no! I can make a lot more money with a talking frog than I can with the world’s best drummer.”
You could set up a small business with the pressure washer.
[old joke]
Two men are sitting outside the maternity ward. One guy says to the other, ‘first kid?’
‘Yes. How about you?’
‘This is number seven for us.’
‘Seven kids? Wow! Mind if I ask you something? How long after the birth before you start having sex again?’
'Depends on if they give my wife a private room or not."
Start looking for another job.
[off topic]
Back during the 1976 Democratic Convention at Madison Square Garde, the NYPD said it would arrest any unescorted woman near the place. Feminists like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan organized middle class white ladies to show up and demand they be arrested for being ‘unescorted.’
Ask questions, then just listen to the answers. Nod and add the occasional ‘go on.’
People will usually let you know what excites/interest them. If someone is wearing a football jersey ask them what the best game they ever saw was.
People don’t expect you to entertain them, they just want to know that you are interested in them
When you serve tacos, put an extra tortilla on the bottom of the plate. It’ll catch anything that falls off the tacos and now you have one more taco.
William Gibson pointed out that during the Depression someone could buy a workshirt for about 35 cents and wear it every day to the coal mine, until it was time to pass it on to their kid.