TV's Word of the Day

From Bones:

"Mawkish"

1.	characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.

2.	having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.

Thank you Bones for refreshing my memory and reinvigorating my SAT vocab!

Lol, Grey's

Wow. This was an unexpectedly funny episode. I loved when George exclaims, "Alexandra Caroline Grey!" with such a queer flair. How can they possible write him straight now? And the whole Bailey Star Wars thing.

And the Hallmark love affair between the two sick kids was so sentimental and so sweet- I even almost teared up. Damn Grey's for still getting me with their sappy music and good acting. Beth was fantastic and heartbreaking.

So it still has some of that old magic. something about these characters and the completely unbelievable but well written stories they fall into. I think it's because the show operates as an ensemble. Yes there will always be Mer & Der, like Ross & Rachel, but they are just one story line. What captivates me are the sidelines: Izzy, Alex, George, Cally, Bailey, Christina. Their weirdness are more free to go against the traditional hero- they are the Byronic heroes, yay!

Les Slightly Boring Liaisons Dangereuses

First, a shout out to the Roundabout Theatre Company. This nonprofit theater offers discounted tickets (less than $25) to all its shows for "young professionals" from 18-35 years old. This means I can afford to see Laura Linney on bway! woot. It also gets me into the theater for a price that a poor overeducated girl can afford. join hiptix today!

so...the play. yeah. well, the first half was entertaining. lots of scandalous frenchie behavior. i think jesse and i counted three ass slaps, two crotch grabbings and misc. groping in the first fifteen minutes. it was sort of all downhill after that. i mean, once the brashness of the play wears off, there's really nothing to keep you emotionally involved. i couldn't bring myself to keep caring after two hours of SAT words and flouncing about.

male nudity. multiple peni (yes i am aware that's not a word, but it's fun) waving about, although not at the same time, don't be confused. that's what kept me watching. it really grabs your attention to have the two male leads drop trou all of the sudden. and the women kept their clothes on for a change.

and yes there was sex. how does broadway to "adult" scenes? well, they were all sort of disturbing because they were performed right in front of you and they were kind of rough. and abusive. dangerous liaisons, i guess. it certainly prodded the distinction between rape and performance- what is prostitution, how much is acting or drama, or just bad taste? I don't know, but it made me think (more so than the questionable worthiness of the morality story). But maybe that's the point of the play, that the moral stuff is just thrown in at the last minute and the real fun is of course in the liaisons, the deviations from the "point," the wandering lusts and adultery to the usual punish the evil reward the good plot.

and laura linney was cool. she really has the cold biatch with a bit of vulnerability persona down to a fine art (the truman show, the nanny diaries). but i didn't really care about her either. i don't know if it was all the sex or the creepiness of the art direction but the play left me cold but entertained. an interesting experience.

The New MEL BROOKS Musical Young Frankenstein

My grandfather's work was do do! No, they didn't include this brilliant one liner in the Broadway show, but that was basically the only fault. I loved this snappy, campy version of Young Frankenstein. The music was fun (This is What I Love About the Brain, Deep Love), the acting was good (Megan Mullaly, wowza), the humor was there (put ze candle back) and somehow it just really really worked on Bway. So thanks Mom for funding this extravagant but extremely fun outing. We also had an interesting time trying to wade through the disability mythos of the play, where there was a whole number in orthopedic shoes as well as a Marx Brothers type shadow dance.

p.s. waaaaaa??

So I pop in PS I Love You because I read the book and that momentarily overcomes my dislike of Hilary Swank's pretentious oscar wins. And the book was nicely complicated and unpredictable- we'll see what Hollywood does to that.

And who shows up on screen except for...SPIKE! As in James Marsters without platinum blond hair. Wowza, that was disorienting. Here he was hugging Lisa Kudrow!