In order to make certain I'd catch Red eye's primetime debut I had made early reservations at the Cafe` - and good thing early enough for the owner to sit down and join us after we were through with our meals and present a $180.00 bottle of wine decanted in a canter for us to drink and chat over - (the owner being Mario Lemuiex's friend and personal chef - and the Sewickley Cafe` a place for the likes of Mario and Sydney Crosby to frequent) -
Greg, you're a *"sweaty toothed madman." The show was one of the best I've seen so far - And, it all worked well - It was like the moment of "communion" for me that Wallace Fowlie so eloquently describes in **Dionysus in Paris: a guide to contemporary French theatre (or when I'm out on-the-road at a show with my good friends, Rusted Root).
It was like Newsweek meets Nylon Magazine - sexy, funny, smart, fast paced and edgy - And, as far as "high brow" talent goes for the cast of characters in the motley crue you seem to associate with, they were all "on" and the chemistry was gorgeous. You all were "on."
Moreover, the camera seemed back-on too. The work was more realistic and organic rather than overproduced and stale like the past couple weeks. It better captured the essence of the set and its unique cast of characters and its offering. This isn't Money Line or Brit Hume. It's "Red eye." Go for it. (The email write-in that complained about too many Rachel leg shots and, that maybe Bill should take his shirt off, seemed to prompt a series of shows being shot in a boring, rigid, same-old-same-old manner).
You have the opportunity to transmit a ground-breaking show and, of course, with respect for past and present contemporaries, break the rules and broadcast to the world something new and exciting and offer an alternative to how we typically view ***everyday media.
Red eye prime time debut = A+++
...(and, as usual, Julia Allison and Rachel Marsden = A++++).
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*a line from Dead Poet's Society - when Robin William's character guides an important illuminating breakthrough in Ethan Hawk's character and he unleashes the poet inside of him in front of the class -
**http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Wallace%20Fowlie --- (my dear friend) ---
***http://www.mystrawhat.com/Everyday/aaindex.htm
Best of the Roses,
John French mystrawhat.com
Things We're Afraid to Say: Webs of Everyday Media
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