First, a self serving programming announcement. I will filling in Sunday night co-hosting the Sportstalk show on KABC radio in LA from 7-10 pm pst. You can also hear it here. Name me a better gig. I have to watch the NFL playoff games all weekend.Feel free to call. 1-800-222-KABC. Surely I'll say enough stupid things that you'll have to correct me on.
LOVE LETTERS by A.R. Gurney is an enormously successful play. Ingenious in its design, an actor and actress sit at tables or stand at podiums and just read love letters. So no blocking or rehearsal or memorization is ever really needed. Actors can easily rotate in and out of the piece and frequently do. This can result in prestigious A-level actor pairings but there have also been productions by Charlton and Lydia Heston and Shirley Jones & Marty Ingells. Since I couldn’t attend either of those I shall wait to see LOVE LETTERS until one of the following pairings is announced:
Nick Counter & Lorena Bobbitt
Lars & the Real Girl
Amy Winehouse & Kenneth from 30 ROCK
James Wood & Sean Young
Paul McCartney & Heather Mills
Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama
Ann Coulter & Al Franken
Woody Allen & Mia Farrow
Sherri Shepherd & Gore Vidal
Kellie Pickler & Randy Jackson
Michael Jackson & Elizabeth Taylor
Billy Bob Thornton & Angelina Jolie
Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman
Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown
Mary Tyler Moore & Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Regis Philbin & Kelly Rippa
Dr. Laura & Dr. Phil
Liza Minelli & David Gest
Jack Klugman & Lauren Becall
Donnie & Marie
Bill Clinton & (the voice of) Monica Lewinsky
Paula Abdul & Simon Cowell
Lou Ferrigno & Marlie Matlin
Andrew Dice Clay & Amy Grant
Bjork & Bob Dylan
Katie Couric & Walter Cronkite
Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt
Richard Hatch & Tonya Harding
The President of Iran & Rene Taylor
Robin Williams
Great list, but I don't get the Nick Counter & Lorena Bobbitt pairing.
ReplyDeletePoor woman would find she had nothing to work with.
Ann Coulter and Christopher Hitchens
ReplyDeleteMike Huckabee, the vertical politician
ReplyDeleteParis Hilton, the horizontal heiress.
Ann Coulter and Reality.
ReplyDeleteIn 1992, I attended the taping of an episode of DAME EDNA'S HOLLYWOOD at NBC in Burbank. LOVE LETTERS was running in L.A. at the time. During a commercial break, I asked Dame Edna to please bring her legendary stage show to Los Angeles. (That event still lay 9 years in the future.)
ReplyDeleteDame Edna replied that she'd like to test the waters first by doing LOVE LETTERS with Lily Tomlin.
I don't get Richard Hatch & Tonya Harding...
ReplyDeleteHow about Sam Kennison and Rita Rudner?
Hallie
Sherry Shepherd and Christopher Hitchens
ReplyDeleteReality and George Bush
Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann
Jay Leno and the Writers
Isaiah Washington and TR Knight
Yoko Ono and Simon Cowell
Brian McNamee and Roger Clemens
David Caruso and Stella Adler
George Takei and William Shatner (Oh my!)
Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump
Mitt Romney and Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, and Portia DiRossi.
Larry Craig and Barney Frank
Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche
ReplyDeleteAnne Heche and Anne Heche
Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger
And lest we forget, the most obvious...
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
OJ Simpson and Gloria Allred.
ReplyDeleteThough my favorite was Lou Ferrigno and Marlie and Matlin. Very cruel but very funny.
Robert W. Morgan and Emperor Bob Hudson
ReplyDeleteDice Clay and Amy Grant got the biggest laugh from me, for some reason
ReplyDeleteHow about: Kim Cattrall and Kurt Russell, ideally in the voices they used in BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.
ReplyDeleteAhmedinajad and Rene Taylor ... now that's funny!
ReplyDeleteAnton Chigurh from "No Country For Old Men" & the cast of "The View"
ReplyDeleteWGA and AMPTP?
ReplyDeleteLou Ferrigno & Marlie Matlin...
ReplyDeleteThat is INSPIRED.
MTM and Ken Levine
ReplyDeleteAmy Fisher and Joey Buttafuco
Janet Jackson and Michael Powell
Michael Jackson and MacCauley Culkin
The readers of this blog and Jose Feliciano
Ken,
ReplyDeleteIs your Sportstalk like the sportstalk we have here for the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky?
A lot of semicoherent people who use the word "we" a lot make a bunch of stupid statements about the team?
My favorite are the people who say, "There's a kid in sixth grade out in Monkey's Eyebrow with a great hookshot. You gonna pursue him?"
Robin Williams - that's funny.
ReplyDeleteJay Leno wanted me to ask...
ReplyDeleteWas any of your Sportstalk show written by a WGA member?
Rene Taylor? Now wait a minute. I think you've stepped over the line.
ReplyDeleteFran Drescher and Lou Ferrigno conjure up another interesting situation. Now the remainder of tonight's comments will resurrect 40 year-old Helen Keller jokes.
Judging from the difficulty so many actors have reading from TelePrompters on award shows, I think I'd insist on some rehearsal.
ReplyDeleteHow about Paris Hilton and David Letterman?
Flava Flav and Brigitte Nielsen
New York and Tailor Made
Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey
Burt and Linda Pugach
Jack Black and Kyle Gass
Eddie Murphy and Scary Spice
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Matthew and Gunnar Nelson
Oh, this could never end...