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The folks at Everything is Terrible just dug up this 1993 video where our good friend George Takei discusses McDonalds/Paramount Pictures promotional opportunities while walking through the backlot of the studio lot (including the sets for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine).
Needless to say, watching this might be the most awesome way to kick off the weekend:
David Henry Hwang continues his weekly report from rehearsals of the Broadway premiere of his new play CHINGLISH.
We’ve just finished our first week of previews, and learned many things, among them:
1. The laughs are all still there, becoming more solid and powerful over our first eight performances, as the actors’ performances get tighter and more focused.
2. The show seems to be playing more emotionally than it did in Chicago. Audiences are getting into the love story, following its twists and turns. As a result, the play’s surface comedy and its deeper underlying issues feel more balanced, perhaps giving the evening a little more gravitas.
3. We can still make the play a little tighter, and button the ending a bit more clearly.
There’s a Broadway tradition of asking colleagues you trust to give notes at this point in the process: when you’re doing your final fixes before “freezing” the show. The great American playwright Neil Simon was nicknamed “Doc Simon” for his skill at diagnosing a play. Of course, if you feel your show is in trouble, you might bring in help earlier. But we’re feeling good about our progress, so are just covering our bases for some final nips and tucks.
I’m a baby papa. Actually, make that babies papa. There, I outed myself. I am legally a parent and a husband – a man no longer solo but a caretaker of my out-of-womb seeds and a spicy Oriental lass of the Han-Gook variety.
If you had asked me 5 years ago whether I’d be married with kids (and a minivan too), I would have laughed really, really hard and said, “Whatever mofo, pass the lychee soju and let us drink like vikings and touch the untanned parts of pretty girls.”
But it is not 5 years ago, it is today. Instead, I am married with kids (two to be precise and perhaps more on the way). 5 years ago, I would have considered my current state of affairs a “worst case scenario,” second only to running out of Shiseido facial moisturizer and blotting paper before a big audition. Sigh…being an 18 year old, single father of two is truly sobering…
It may be hard to believe but I wasn’t always the cool and hip dude I am now. Believe it or not, I had awkward moments growing up and made my fair share of bad calls. So to help show that anyone can leave the shackles of pathetic-ness behind, occasionally I’ll post random excerpts from my journal so you can see how far I’ve come.
Kathy Griffin was on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night to plug her latest “film”–Kate Is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story. And guess who’s playing Jon? “Oh my…”
