Let's try this again, shall we?
Ok, I'm going to give this another shot and see if I can't get it actually posted this time. The last 6 weeks have supposed to have been my down-time since we were on break from the Hollywood Master Chorale. Boy was it anything but that! Let's look at the breakdown, shall we?
Movies Reviewed:
1. Manda Bala
2. the hysterial Death at a Funeral
3. Resurrecting the Champ
and two for last Friday: I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With and my new favorite movie 3:10 to Yuma.
There is a TV section over at M&C and the editor April McIntyre wants me to write for her. She likes my style. I know, go figure! She created the Reilly Report and so far it's just been me spouting off about the pilots I've watched: Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Who knows what I'll do after that.
Speaking of TV,
daisybuttercup and I are going to a couple of the Paley Center's TV Preview Parties. We went to the NBC one on Saturday and will be going to the ABC one tonight. My new favorite show is Chuck on NBC. Be sure to check it out!
On August 27th I had a chance to go to a concert benefiting the International Myeloma Foundation. Michael McKean and special guests Annette O'Toole (his wife and co-writer), Judith Owen, Harry Shearer, and Chris Guest performed. It was incredible!
Enjoy an evening of great music and plenty of laughs when Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Folksmen) take the stage at The Avalon, along with a few special guests. The trio is headlining this Concert for a Cause to raise funds to battle multiple myeloma.
The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF)--conducting research and providing education, advocacy, and support for myeloma patients, families, researchers, and physicians--hosts the event.
This summer, Spinal Tap (aka Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) did their part to raise awareness of global warming and to encourage people and governments to go green at the Live Earth concert in London. They also appeared as The Folksmen in the recent film titled “A Mighty Wind,” directed by Christopher Guest, for which Guest, McKean and Eugene Levy won a Grammy Award for the title track.
Michael McKean first became involved with the IMF when a friend and colleague, Lee Grayson, was battling multiple myeloma. Since then, he has supported the IMF in Lee’s honor, by his celebrity appearance on the televised game show “Celebrity Jeopardy,” playing, winning and donating the proceeds he won to the IMF.
Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a bone marrow cancer that affects blood cell production causing fatigue, weakness, and pain. It is the second most common blood cancer after lymphomas, affecting more than 750,000 people worldwide and its prevalence is increasing. Myeloma research is helping lead the new direction of cancer treatment -- although there is currently no cure for myeloma, it is an eminently treatable disease allowing patients to live longer and productive lives. For more information about multiple myeloma, visit www.myeloma.org.
I fell in love with Judith Owen (who is Shearer's wife). She's a little jazzy, a little folksy and very sassy. I had to run out and grab her new cd the next day. When the guys started off their set with "Hell Hole" I though I was going to pee my pants. They plays Folksmen songs and Tap songs. It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that I'm so glad I got to do. Lord knows when these guys will perform again.
This week and next week are busy ones. It started off with the high-larious Avenue Q yesterday with new auntie Sallie. I'm getting the cast recording of this one for sure. There's the Paley thing tonight. I'm seeing the movie Trade tomorrow night, heading to the Bowl to see Pink Martini on Friday, The Director's Cut of Troy with Director Wolfgang Petersen on the 18th and then finally some muppet improv called Puppet Up on the 29th. It's Puppet Month for Mo! Seriously if you get a change to see Avenue Q (and not the abridged Vegas version) absolutely see it.
Ok I'm going to hit post before I lose this again. Have a great week everyone!