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Endless Distraction
"Life is too short to read the New Yorker" is one of those catch phrases that gets tossed around here and there. Unfortunately, lately life has been a bit too crowded to read the New Yorker (and the enormous stack of other periodicals I've got here at my side, or the well intentioned book list, for that matter, though I did get pleasantly waylaid by a fat novel recently).
And I've been easily distracted, as I was when I picked up this week's New Yorker (the Style Issue, for those playing along at home). I tried to read Anthony Lane's review of the Michel Gondry film The Science of Sleep, but I got waylaid.
What do Ed Asner, Rita Moreno, Patricia Neal, Gena Rowlands and Kitty Carlisle Hart have in common? I'm struggling with this myself, but it is in my mind because one of the little ads on the side of the "Current Cinema" reviews page (the ones that so often invite you to purchase Cat Art or Celebration Bowls or musical note jewelry) is in invitation to join those actors on an 11-day journey: the 34th (Baltic) Theatre At Sea cruise.
What? Why? Are all these folks friends and just happy to get to take a cruise together with a little acting thrown in? Are they all so desperate for cash or bored that cruise theatre has become the thing to do? I can't imagine any scenario that makes sense because everyone reminds me of a different era. When you say "Rita Moreno" I think of the Electric Company and West Side Story. Patricia Neal reminds me of A Face in the Crowd. Gena Rowlands is inseparable in my mind from the movies she did with her husband John Cassavetes and Kitty Carlisle Hart, well she's certainly a personality, but I know her best from the Marx Brothers' A Night At the Opera.
The mind reels with Death on the Nile scenarios, and the whole project seems so odd: a cruise with constant theatre.
I must finish reading that movie review otherwise this issue will never get recycled, but it is so hard to focus and shake the intrusive thoughts of what possible plays these actors could perform at sea for almost two weeks.
One thing is certain. I won't be joining them at sea, and if things keep up as they have been, I won't have finished the magazine either.
posted by Elise at 8:19 PM
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