"I am sorry I was moved to speak with enthusiasm."

I saw Boston Marriage on thursday. It's every bit as bad as they say. Some of the dialog was genuinely funny but there were a number of unfortunate double entendres involving a muff. I know it must be hard to resist the temptation to go there, but he could have made some small effort. Pidgeon was Pidgeon and Steenburgen was Katherine Hepburn with a British accent. That coupled with absolutely flat delivery and rapid fire Mamet dialog made her nearly impossible to understand. Silverstone was good, but a little broad for my tastes. Overall the play was just too cold. It was hard to root for the characters. Their relationship was the only thing at stake and yet they never gave you a reason to believe in it.

"I needed a job and I wanted to shoot a gun."

Last night was the BSG portion of the Paley fest. They screened LYBD I. It was really cool to see it on a big screen with good acoustics. The panel was very funny, but not terribly insightful. They spent half the time talking about how they were cast and we've all read and heard those stories before. I took a lot of notes and I might get a chance to type them up this weekend.

My favorite part was the quiz at the end. They each had a question related to their character and the prize was a signed poster. When it was Mary's turn she read her question and went, "This would be so much fun to answer all together. Oh, but there's a poster at stake. Alright." So she asked, called on someone, they answered and she sat down but instead of moving to EJO's question, she stood again and went, "Now we can answer as a group!" She delivered the question exactly the same way, "According to President Roslin, what is the proper way to deal with a cylon?" and we all chimed in, "Put them out the airlock!" She was so thrilled and grinned like mad. When she sat back down she was the very picture of the phrase, "pleased as punch." I love her.