I'm attempting to see as many oscar nominated films as pos before the "big day" so I recently endured BABEL. what is the big deal? Another "up its own ass" film. who cares. Then I went to the theatre. Was really excited to see the new(ish) Patrick Marber play HOWARD KATZ but while Alfred Molina was brilliant the majority of the cast were utter crap. Once again I am baffled by the NY theatre community insisting on foisting bad accents upon us when I have a friggin treasure trove of real British actors they could have pulled from. Why is money spent on this? Why are hours wasted with mediocre 'dialect coaches' ? Ssurprisingly it wasn't the crap guy who usually gets all the B'way gigs - good to know there's another crap dialect coach getting work out there. Tomorrow I get to endure a friend's show. we all know how great those usually are but my fingers are crossed that I don't have to resort to the old "congratulations!" or "wow...congratulations!" after-show wank.
Someone get me a donut and the complete Extras Season 1 dvd stat so I can shake this off...
