Monday, July 16, 2007
Le Festin (The Feast)
So, a couple of weeks ago, we spent some joyous hours seeing RATATOUILLE, the new animated film by Pixar/Dreamworks....brilliant beyond good....fun, touching, hearty, funny, lyrical...about a rat with aspirations to be a great chef! Not content with stealing food from even the fine trash of the French countryside, he yearns to cook and cook well...so an accident propels propels him into the sewers and finally the kitchens of Paris, where he settles into a routine of benign deception with a lowly cleaning boy in one of the finest kitchens in that City of Light.....the rat relays instructions on how to cook delectable dishes to the boy who, with human dexterity, executes the rat's orders and exciting l'histoire gastronomique is made! The journey is a deeply humane and hysterical one, many laughs along the way...Peter O'Toole even voices the superb and catalytic character of the food critic "Anton Ego"...........we had such a good good time with this film. Peter bought me coffee mugs with characters from the film painted whimsically on them....and is playing the soundtrack aloud for me, even as I type....there is the most wonderful song emblematic of the film, and sung by the delicious Camille, called The Feast....the final verse:
La fete va enfin commencer
Et sortez les bouteilles, finis les ennuis
Je dresse la table, demanin nouvelle vie
Je suis heureux a l'idee de ce nouveau destin
Une vie a me cacher, et puis libre enfin
Le festin est sur mon chemin
Une vie a me chacher et puis libre enfin
Le festin est sur mon chemin....
and it translates:
The party will finally start
And take away the bottles, the troubles are over
I set the table; tomorrow is a new life
I am happy at the idea of this new destiny
A life spent in hiding, and now I am finally free
The feast is on my path
A life spent in hiding and now I am finally free
The feast is on my path....
gorgeous.....right?
This is how I feel after several weeks of pretty much unalloyed time spent up at the House Upstate. I arrived back here in NYC this morning, and will of course go back to the House over the weekend next, but that sense of long stretches is over, as I head into the brief rehearsal and performance time for that Wyatt Earp musical (see my website for further info on that) and then the more serious business of trying to figure out what comes next....I know it not...but with Peter by my side, I know what ever it is will be fun and good. I am feeling like performing again, and this comes as sort of a surprise...so we shall see what is up with that...still not a word about my involvement or non-involvement in the Adam Sandler film....my agent seems ot think that is good news...I think it is because they have cast someone else...Hollywood time is so unlike anyone else's , so it could mean anything, but I am certainly not counting on it....in fact, have let go of any real substantive thought about it, except that it was fun to be so considered for a while....and to work on that lovely character was fun too, even for the taping auditions....so..."the feast is on my path".....true for us all, but we always think it is the destination that is the real deal....and we hurry so to get there, wherever "there" is....
Our dear pal Kevin Kilner is here for a few days...actually, he has been here for a few days already, and leaves tomorrow...Peter was lucky enough to be able to spend some real time with him...we three shall go out for dinner tonight and i will get the news of his life with his daarling wife Jordan...he had to come here for some auditions...a TV thing or something....and will fly back West sometime early tomorrow....nice to see him. Glad he feels he can crash here whenever he needs to. He is friend of long standing, very like family. I have known him far longer than i have known Peter...and Peter likes him very much. So they have had some good visiting time.
Paul and Steve head out West to their San Francisco apartment Thursday....for a month. I will miss Paul.....as usual. But it feels good to be back in our Manhattan home with the dearest husband in the world: Peter.
More soon.
La fete va enfin commencer
Et sortez les bouteilles, finis les ennuis
Je dresse la table, demanin nouvelle vie
Je suis heureux a l'idee de ce nouveau destin
Une vie a me cacher, et puis libre enfin
Le festin est sur mon chemin
Une vie a me chacher et puis libre enfin
Le festin est sur mon chemin....
and it translates:
The party will finally start
And take away the bottles, the troubles are over
I set the table; tomorrow is a new life
I am happy at the idea of this new destiny
A life spent in hiding, and now I am finally free
The feast is on my path
A life spent in hiding and now I am finally free
The feast is on my path....
gorgeous.....right?
This is how I feel after several weeks of pretty much unalloyed time spent up at the House Upstate. I arrived back here in NYC this morning, and will of course go back to the House over the weekend next, but that sense of long stretches is over, as I head into the brief rehearsal and performance time for that Wyatt Earp musical (see my website for further info on that) and then the more serious business of trying to figure out what comes next....I know it not...but with Peter by my side, I know what ever it is will be fun and good. I am feeling like performing again, and this comes as sort of a surprise...so we shall see what is up with that...still not a word about my involvement or non-involvement in the Adam Sandler film....my agent seems ot think that is good news...I think it is because they have cast someone else...Hollywood time is so unlike anyone else's , so it could mean anything, but I am certainly not counting on it....in fact, have let go of any real substantive thought about it, except that it was fun to be so considered for a while....and to work on that lovely character was fun too, even for the taping auditions....so..."the feast is on my path".....true for us all, but we always think it is the destination that is the real deal....and we hurry so to get there, wherever "there" is....
Our dear pal Kevin Kilner is here for a few days...actually, he has been here for a few days already, and leaves tomorrow...Peter was lucky enough to be able to spend some real time with him...we three shall go out for dinner tonight and i will get the news of his life with his daarling wife Jordan...he had to come here for some auditions...a TV thing or something....and will fly back West sometime early tomorrow....nice to see him. Glad he feels he can crash here whenever he needs to. He is friend of long standing, very like family. I have known him far longer than i have known Peter...and Peter likes him very much. So they have had some good visiting time.
Paul and Steve head out West to their San Francisco apartment Thursday....for a month. I will miss Paul.....as usual. But it feels good to be back in our Manhattan home with the dearest husband in the world: Peter.
More soon.
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