Yesterday evening I ushered a performance of King Lear and the variety of celebrity turnout was quite grand. First, Neil Patrick Harris, in very fitted pin-striped trousers. Second, the ever-present Julia-Louis Dreyfus with her husband and a gaggle of kids (not all hers, though). She arrived late, so we had to hold her out of the performance for the first half hour. My boss was proud of me for not heeding celebrity. It wasn't that hard; she wasn't mean about it unlike every other obnoxious man who got there 45 minutes late and wanted to be seated in the front row! Boo stupid patrons--my favorite comment of the evening, "But I am a guest of the British consulate!" Who cares? During intermission came a few ones I had missed earlier--Julian Sands, who played the villainous Bierko on 24 but also a fantastic psycho theatrical man on an episode of Law & Order:Criminal Intent (a show that took up a lot of my procrastination time last year), John Lithgow, whom I once walked into while he was walking his dogs because I wasn't looking where I was going, Blythe Danner (my co-ushers had no idea who she is), and, finally, the tall curly-haired villain from Home Alone!
The show is endless--about three and a half hours! Plus intermission. Man, I am working it again tomorrow.
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Oh my god, what a fantastic celebrity turnout! How could anybody not know Blythe Danner?
The tall villain is also Cyril in Breaking Away, by the way. Best bicycle-themed movie I've ever seen.
The only bicycle-themed movie I've seen is The Bicycle Theme, which made me weepy and introspective. haha. I saw that with you, right?
and by Theme i mean Thief.
Oh my god, yeah. That was the most depressing thing I've seen in my entire life. I'd watch Breaking Away over that any day. Breaking Away is witty and fun, with a core of truth and dignity. The Bicycle Thief was nothing but angst all the way through.
Hey, I watched Breaking Away. Excellent.
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