He was known for his high-octane personality and often pointed and profane barbs at his critics.
He was often lambasted by the LGBT community for his failure to recognize and then adequately and timely respond to the AIDS crisis and, also, for being and remaining in the closet. He never left it.
But, even his critics acknowledge that he was the right Mayor at the right time.
So==>R.I.P. MR. MAYOR!!
The cold weather has returned to The Big Apple. It was only 19ยบ at 8:30am.
On a very positive note ... today is Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow ... meaning ... we will have an early spring ... YES!!
On that very happy note, let’s move on to some really positive things, like Billi Pod’s report cards on yesterday’s entertainment doubleheader ... beginning with ...
HAPPY 50ish! The Mid-Life Crisis Comedy/Musical, about a birthday party given to help Bob’s midlife crisis==>A
This two-man show was totally enjoyable, funny, well written and performed.
It was not a staged reading as I thought and posted yesterday, but a “showcase” production for potential investors, for, I guess, a New York City production. The show has already been performed on the West Coast.
Then, for the evening was ...
THEATRE UNCUT, playwrights from around the world take on the state of world politics and economics in 6 short works==>B+
Over-all thought provoking and very well performed, especially the work by Neil LaBute, “In The Beginning,” about the relationship between a live-at-home young female activist and her well-to-do father.
The show closes with the matinee performance on Sunday.
Moving on ...
Tonight’s entertainment event is a return to Carnegie Hall for the third All-Beethoven-Symphonies concert series ...
8:00==>WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA @ Carnegie Hall - Beethoven’s Symphonies 6 “Pastoral” and 7 (discounted ticket)
I am happy to report that the New York Times gave the first concert an extremely positive review.
What about this afternoon I know many of you loyal and faithful readers and followers are breathlessly asking your inner selves? Well ... inner selves ... sit down, take a deep breath and ... now I’m serious ... take a deep breath ... and then read on ... but be warned ...
Billi Pod is seriously ... and he means ... seriously ... considering seeing ...
MOVIE 43, which received the following comments in this week’s TimeOut ...
“As sick-making sketch comedies go, this stupefying bad one - somehow rife with A-list talent - must rank near the very bottom. Yet if black is white and up in down, that could read like highest praise to you. Trust us, it’s not: Hugh Jackman shows up as a charming date with a pair of testicles dangling from his neck, while Kate Winslet gags as pubes fall into their diner. That’s an example of the infantile, off-the-wall concepts here, devised by close to two dozen writers and directors who firmly believe in puerilism for kicks.”
In addition to Jackman and Winslet, the A-list cast includes: Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Liv Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Kieran Culkin, Kate Bosworth, Jack McBrayer, Aasif Mandvi, Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Bobby Cannavale, John Hodgman, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, and Halle Berry.
I mean ... come on folks ... this is just the kind of humor that Billi Pod loves ... so ... stay tuned ...
In closing ... I still don’t care who wins Super Bowl XLVII tomorrow night.
Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>2.24 miles (or, 4,904 steps)
Total mileage since 7/1/12==>1,105.60 miles
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.”
No comments:
Post a Comment