Tuesday, January 19, 2016
IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU BACK WHERE YOU BELONG: Bette Midler will star in a Hello, Dolly! revival next season on Broadway. Bette already has Grammy and Emmy, and a 1976 special/non-competitive Tony for "adding lustre to the Broadway season." No Oscar, despite 2 nominations (The Rose and For The Boys). It's her first time in a musical (rather than a revue/concert or straight play) on Broadway since 1967, when she was a replacement as Tzeitel in the original production of Fiddler.
Monday, January 18, 2016
IT IS NOT "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST": Trivia - name the Oscar-winning film whose full title is spoken the most times within the film.
N.B. Don't hover over the link unless you want the answer spoiled.
N.B. Don't hover over the link unless you want the answer spoiled.
Friday, January 15, 2016
DEMAND SATISFACTION: Longtime ALOTT5MA Fave Jay Rayner (remember when that was A Thing?) lists his 12 Dining Commandments, "atrocities" he hopes to see gone from restaurants in 2016. This one has come up regularly in Philadelphia:
All restaurants must install big enough tables to accommodate their small-plate-sharing menus. The small plates menu was your idea, not mine. Most tables can’t manage more than four dishes, and you want us to order seven.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
YOU'RE NO KELLY BISHOP: That's my response to today's announcement that Debra Messing will play Marjorie Houseman in ABC's upcoming Dirty Dancing remake. Still no Johnny Castle casting.
HOW CAN WE NOT TALK ABOUT FAMILY WHEN FAMILY'S ALL THAT WE'VE GOT? Time to complain about (see title, absence of black acting/directing nominees) and hail (Stallone, the Inside Out v. Straight Outta Compton battle in Original Screenplay) this year's Oscar noms.
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