It is bright and cold in The Big Apple==>17º at 8:30am ... burrrrrrrr!!
Billi Pod’s report card on last night’s JOHN LEGUIZAMO GHETTO KLOWN==>A<==first preview performance. The audience for this sold-out show was really into his performance, which was, as promised ... “unabashed, uncensored, and uninhibited.”
He really laid everything in his personal life/history/background out there for his audience to absorb, and, frankly, sometimes I felt it bordered on being a bit too much. Having said that, I also recognized that it is his style to do just this. He really took some brutal shots at some of his movie cast-mates but his most brutal and troubling shots, in my opinion, were directed at his family, particularly his father. I didn’t know that at one time his father had filed a defamation lawsuit against him.
Despite these comments, I have no problem in recommending his show as a mesmerizing theater experience. Billi Pod says==>SEE IT!!
Tonight’s entertainment event is ...
7:30==>IN YOUR IMAGE-“In a small town just outside Manchester, England, a man dies alone in his rubbish-strewn flat. His two sons, forced to pick over the remnants of his life, must confront the ghosts of their past before they can lay him to rest.” (Off-Broadway - $9.00 TDF ticket).
This show is playing on the smallest stage at the 59th Street Theatre. It has gotten very good reviews and I am looking forward to seeing it.
In an earlier posting I talked about having dinner with Paul Hughes and Scott Reed, but I failed to post a picture I took of them in PHC on Friday, February 18, 2011, just before going out for our late-night dinner at Westway Diner, so here it is ...
What am I talking about you loyal and faithful readers are no doubt breathlessly asking? Well, it seems, according to co-owner Hank Steinbrenner, the reason the Yankees didn’t make it to The World Series in 2010 was because of Derek Jeter’s newly completed “mansion” in Tampa --
“OUT AT HOME! Yank boss: We lost over Jeter mansion. "Yankee co-owner Hank Steinbrenner took a not-so-veiled shot at Derek Jeter yesterday, blaming the team’s disappointing 2010 season on ‘players concentrating on building mansions’ rather than winning.” - New York Post (front page).
“HANK HITS HOME! Blames House That Jeter Built for Woes” - The Daily News (sports section)
“Criticizing Star, the Way Dad Used To Do It.” - New York Times (sports section )
Well, I know this seems kinda harsh, but Billi Pod needs to remind you readers that several times during last season he opined on this blog,
in the name of fair and unbiased reporting, that the Yankees seemed to have lost their “killer instinct” and seemed to exude a sense of “entitlement” rather than their usual “winning is everything” aura of previous seasons. Jus’ sayin’.
Yep, it’s gonna be an interesting season, that is for certain.
So, will close with the now soon to be completed ...
Musings from THE MIND OF BILLI POD (a memoir in progress):
“Bet you didn’t know that Willie Wonka was really a wanker.”
GO GATORS AND GO YANKEES!!
Billi Pod
“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”
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