"My name...is HORACE"

As of today, July, 27, 2007, at 11:16 AM...

Everybody Go Home and Watch Kulte!

For today is Donald Sutherland's birthday.

Happy Friday the 13th

Okay, so posting a link to an article I found only because it was on imdb's hit list is the laziest form of blogging, but how can I resist this quote?

Jason is one inventive killer; he is like the Martha Stewart of the slasher genre.

The article also features the montage of every Friday the 13th death scene, which you've probably already seen if you're interested in such things.

Baktopia: How to survive Friday the 13th.

'Twas a noble idea.

And it seemed simple enough. Kathatine Hepburn made 52 films. I usually watch between three and four movies a week. So all I had to do was make sure one of them stars my favorite actressl. I already have most of her movies on tape or DVD and the ones I don't aleady have are readily available. Hell, I even tracked down a copy of The Iron Petticoat.

But then life intervened, as it so often does.

A show that I wrote was produced as part of a workshop of mini-musicals. A week later, the company I work for had its Big Annual Meeting. So I was left with very little free time and, well, I still haven't finished my review of Morning Glory, aka Film #3.

The concurrence of the show and the job resulted in my getting behind my one movie per week goal. Which meant catching up. And suddenly, something that was conceived out of joy became a responsibility. And it just wasn't fun anymore.

So stay tuned for some sort of reconfiguration of The KH Project.

JR

That sounds like rock and/or roll

I'm sure you've seen the OK Go video for "Here it Goes Again."



Very popular video. Won the first YouTune Video of the Year Award. I've only just now watched it for the first time, which isn't especially unusual since - surprise, surprise - the guy who writes the Katharine Hepburn blog isn't all that up to speed on current music.

But here's the thing. The guy in the pink shirt and vest? The bass player? Tim Nordwind? I know him. We went to college together. We made up half of class of 98 playwriting department at The Theatre School.

Tim is a brilliant playwright. One of the most creative I've ever read. His voice (as a writer) was so unique that he was my hero - something I told him all the time in college.

He wrote a play in college called... actually, it had several titles and I don't remember the final one, but the title isn't important. It was about the circus and I played the fortune teller, which isn't important either. What's important is that I based my entire performance on Katharine Hepburn's voice, circa On Golden Pond. Whenever I had trouble with getting into character, I just did a bad KH impersonation and presto! Worked every time.

I really should read the alumni newsletter more often, huh?