Striking out of H’wood
Richard Kind. From “Spin City,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and recently “A Tailor Near Me” written by “L.A. Law’s” Michael Tucker who’s wed to Jill Eikenberry.
“Kind is my real last name. People ask am I kind. Yes, but I’d rather be rich.
“Listen, about the current actors strike. We started on Betamax, then DVDs. We got residuals. Then cable TV where we never got residuals. Next came streaming and nobody’s figured out those residuals. Now new technology. AI. Nobody knows how or what to do. We need scientists on new technology’s negotiations so someone can decide what’s reality.
“Who knows this power? Nobody’s telling us any numbers. How far can it go?
“I remember even now my beginning. My first audition — 30 people. I wasn’t even a professional union member. To sing from ‘Pajama Game’ they asked me what key. Who knew what key. Suddenly the audition’s director José Ferrer yells, ‘My ex-wife had a hit with that song’ and starts a duet with me — however, I didn’t get the job.”
He has already nailed the next job, however. In Paris. The star role created by the late Zero Mostel in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”
History repeats
The film “Oppenheimer.” Great. Terrific. But may civilization realize its ending scenes depict clearly the predetermined horror of what a DC’s kangaroo court is capable.
Read newspapers. Watch TV. Pinpoint Georgia. We are now in the throes of a banana republic.
Again. Happening again.
Grammer says ‘Cheers’ to beers
Kelsey Grammer’s hustling beer. It’s name’s Faith. Same as his daughter.
“There’s love in it. Films I’ve done had love in them. It’s an offering of me where I don’t feel cut into pieces as I did if people didn’t like my work. Don’t like the beer — don’t order another one.”
Also hawking a movie theater shtick called Stage Access.
His on-camera intros promo films, concerts, Renée Fleming operas. “The lockdown stopped people seeing things. This reintroduces a return to theaters.”
On the SAG-AFTRA strike: “Disconcerting. I can’t promote my projects. We’ve shackled ourselves. People who’ve spent entire lives trying to find their voice and now their union tells them they can’t talk. Incongruous. Weird. I don’t see what the power move is in that.”
Meanwhile, knock the suds off a cold Faith.
Cross roads
Attention. In Delaware exists non great main area Delaware City. On the main drag was a business called — ready? Lewinsky’s.
If you’re rushing there, the exact address for Lewinsky’s was 92 Clinton St. Lewinsky’s. On Clinton.
I don’t make these things up. I don’t have to. If you grab a discount wearing a blue dress, this I don’t know.
If Hillary’s shopped there I also don’t know. Hunting around, who knows, maybe Hunter Biden.
Labor Day’s coming. To commemorate this great holiday when everyone’s off work and taking it easy, one friend made this resolution: “Going to have a relaxing scotch in the afternoon, and in the evening maybe a sexy Italian.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.