Ok, first things first:
In an effort to bring you, our loyal viewers, more content, I will be posting a blog every Wednesday. Hooray! However, I have always been somewhat bothered by Wednesdays. Oh sure, it has always been seen as the marker between the begining of the week and the end of the week; the "hump" as it were; a repeating speed bump in time. But "Wednesday"? It's not even spelled phonetically. It also has more sylabols than any other day, one of which is completely unecessary. The day was originally named for the Norse god Odin, a god of war and death. War and Death? Two of the four Quartet Apocalypto? Come on, now people, do we really want to stick to that old pantheon of sorrow? This is a new age. Things, ideas, people are changing. It's time to update the nomenclature for measuring time. I propose that we no longer stick to the relics of the past. Therefore, in my own personal effort to drag us kicking and screaming into this modern era, I am casting out "Wednesday" and replacing it with...Jenday. That's right: Jenday. It's easier to spell. It's easier to say. It isn't reminiscent of the slaughter of thousands at the hands of a blood-thirsty warrior people. So next time the middle of the week rolls around, think aloud to yourself, "Hooray, Hooray, I'm glad it's Jenday!"
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The History of The Beret
It all started in 2004 when I was doing a show called "Room Service" with a local community theater company. The play is about a producer and a director trying not to get kicked out of their hotel until they can get their production of "Godspeed" up on its feet. It's a screw ball comedy with zany antics and lots of laughs. I was cast in the part of the director: Harry Binion. My costume consisted of a suite and cravat and, get this: a black beret. When the run was over I asked if I could buy the beret from the company, which I did.
Later, when Yuri and I were playing around with ideas for Jennifer, many of my more radical ideas were shelved, but the beret you've all come to know and possibly love stayed in.
Currently, I am in a production of "Moonlight and Magnolias". It's a show based on actual events about 3 guys locked in an office for 5 days trying to rewrite the screenplay to "Gone With The Wind". The writer (Ben Hecht) hasn't read the book, so the producer (David O. Selznick) and the director (Victor Flemming) have to act out the book for Hecht as they go along. The characters are fed nothing but peanuts and bananas and gradually slip into a sleep deprived state of madness. This is another zany comedy with a slap fight and banana-peanut free-for-all thrown in for good measure. I happen to be playing (guess who) the director. And I happen to be wearing (guess what...are you guessing? You're guessing, aren't you?) yes, The Beret.
Three roles as a director, each character dramatically different from the others, and in each one, my beloved beret has been with me to see me through. Just thought I'd share that little tidbit.
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you should eat your banana with a knife. take something from each project that you do, and adapt it into your next role.
Fortunately, I don't have to eat any bananas in the show. A) I"m not a big fan of bananas, and B) after getting chucked around the stage for several days, those things are a bit worse for wear. Also, Yuri is the only one stupid enough to let me play with knives.
Haha mmmmm berets.
My god, we have to do this every Jenday? Now you all know what we have to deal with on set.
Oh, Jimmy, always such the little complainer.