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I miss Gorbachev.

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It was my turn to provide the inspirational quote for the morning huddle. I went with, "Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win, / By fearing to attempt," by that self-help guru, William Shakespeare.

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"DOGBERRY. One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would have them this morning examined before your worship." (Much Ado, III.v) #ShakespeareSunday

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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice! How do you get to the Kennedy Center? Insurrection, insurrection, insurrection!

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"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks." (R&J, II.ii) #ShakespeareSunday

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Theater friends: Is there a term for that point in the rehearsal process when you find some of your character's less positive traits bleeding into the offstage you?

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"I found her Chromebook in the hamper." "Maybe she wanted to clean her cache." "I'm going to roll my eyes now."

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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" (Merchant of Venice, I.iii) #ShakespeareSunday Of course, the man saying this is an anti-Semite. :(

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(World crumbling around us) Me: Hee hee hee, there's a polymorphism called MTHFR!

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In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepared A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it. (Tempest, I.ii) #ShakespeareSunday

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My director gave me an extra interesting note at rehearsal: "Can you be more of a jerk?" Huh. That's the first time anyone asked me to be MORE of a jerk.

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The good news is that my ten-year-old daughter is getting better at playing the drums and orchestra bells. The bad news is she's not getting any better at teaching them to me.

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"[O]ne that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny’st the least syllable of thy addition." (KL II.ii) #ShakespeareSunday

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Firstread through. Woohoo! The world may be a mess, but we can create. It's been years since I've acted in a full-length play, but it's just like riding a bike. I can create a character. I can learn my lines. I can--wait, I have to do a hula hoop?! Is there such a thing as a hula hoop coach?

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The live version of "Rag Mama Rag" on The Band's Rock of Ages ends with a piano solo (I assume the late Garth Hudson) that is one of my all time favorite codas. It sounds like a player piano in a saloon flailing valiantly against its tinkery limitations.

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Yesterday's solution to Letterboxed is JUDGMENTAL LOX. I see you, Judgmental Lox, lying so innocently on my bagel, thinking, I can't believe that guy put cream cheese on me. Doesn't he know not to mix seafood and dairy? And what's with the capers? He's just paying for salt.

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"The answer lies in developing the capacity to accept the finite disappointment and yet cling to the infinite hope." Here is the context of this quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. It's a draft of a chapter that may be comforting to anyone feeling a little short of hope today.

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"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."—King John – Act 5, scene 1, line 46. #ShakespeareSunday

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I just found I've been cast as James in this lovely play at United Theatre in Freehold, NJ. I am looking forward to this.

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At the gym, Dunston Checks In was on the TV and '80s music was on the sound system. Scenes of an orangutan running from Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, and Paul Reubens through a fancy hotel worked surprisingly well as a video for "Dancing with Myself".

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I'll write about David Lynch later. For now, I am sharing this picture of him and Mel Brooks.

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I had fun tonight auditioning for this beautiful play, Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker, in Freehold, New Jersey. I was the only man auditioning, and there are two male roles, so they need another man. There is still time to audition. (Everyone seems very nice.)

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If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a bride, l and hug it in mine arms. (Measure for Measure, III.i) #ShakespeareSunday

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I always figured since The Lion King is based on Hamlet (by way of Kimba, the White Lion), Timon and Pumbaa are its Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern. However, plot-wise, they function more like Falstaff and his friends, distracting the prince from his royal duties with base pleasures.

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Channeling my late grandmother, I called Lily "Shayna Punim".

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"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work, But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents."--Henry IV Part I (I.ii)

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Are there any subjects that you hope other people will bring up at social occasions so that you can share what you know and find fascinating about those subjects? Tonight, an acquaintance of mine knows significantly more about Zero Mostel than he did yesterday.

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Lily so often groans at my puns that I feel like I've won the gold medal in dad jokes when I make her laugh at one in spite of herself. I have to catch her off guard so she doesn't have time to prepare her eye roll.

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In discussions about wacky neighbors on sitcoms, Mr. Bentley on The Jeffersons doesn't get enough love.

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My dad, who has cancer, invited me out to breakfast. He insisted it be just us two for a private conversation. Turns out it was to tell me that if I want to take any weight loss drugs, he would help pay for it. This would annoy me, but I was relieved he wasn't telling me he has months to live.

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"Well, if I be served such another trick, I’ll have my brains ta’en out and buttered, and give them to a dog for a New Year’s gift." – The Merry Wives of Windsor (III.v)

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I've seen reports about who is on Christopher Nolan's upcoming Odyssey movie, but I haven't seen who plays which role. My guesses: M. Damon as Odysseus, A. Hathaway as Penelope, T. Holland as Telemachus, C. Theron as Athena, R. Pattinson as Antinous, L. Nyong'o as Circe, and Zendaya as Calypso.

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"You fools, I and my fellows Are ministers of Fate. The elements Of whom your swords are tempered may as well Wound the loud winds or with bemocked-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters as diminish One dowl that’s in my plume." (Tempest, III.iii) #ShakespeareSunday

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Does anyone besides me remember the '80s anthology series The George Burns Comedy Week? In one episode, "A Christmas Carol II: The Sequel", after being visited by ghosts last Christmas, Scrooge has become so generous that everyone takes advantage of and disrespects him.

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