My Way of Life
Last nights show started to pick up. We had a nice crowd and they laughed a lot. That’s always nice. We almost didn’t have any show at all. I left work in the afternoon after having an extremely uncomfortable acid reflux attack. Sort of like coke and pop rocks mixed with lava in your stomach. but luckily it subsided in a couple of hours and I was able to do the show. I’m told it’s caused by stress, diet and aging. Yay.
Monday night I went to the opening of A Comedy of Errorsat Chicago Shakespeake. I got in because my friend Doug Vickers, who was so brilliant in The Birds was in it and he graciously invited me. I had never seen The Comedy of Errors, and this was a play within a play. An eccentric British production company filming an adaptation of the play during WWII. Doug of course was hilarious and the entire cast kicked some serious ass, as the pacing was impeccable as was the direction. I met Barbara Gaines the director and Artistic Director of Chicago Shakes and she was very cool. She even said she knew of Hell in a Handbag. I met Ron West, the adaptor of the piece- he wrote the very funny backstage bits and I immediately recognized him as Dr. Strudwick, John Lithgow’s arch rival in 3rd Rock From the Sun, and he recognized mefrom Facebook. Weird.
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I had to go see “Backdraft” in the theater because some friend of mine had gone to Chicago and done some studying with Ron West and couldn’t shut up about him. So we all go to see this “hilarious guy” Ron and pretty early on in the movie he’s onscreen.
In the movie, he gets out of his car, walks to the front door of his house, opens it - and gets blowed up by The Backdraft. It’s maybe 10 seconds.
Six bucks and two hours I’m never getting back.
I’ve seen some stuff of his since then. It was funnier.
Thank you, Merrie, for ruining “Backdraft” for me! And here I was planning to go see it!