May 3, 2006
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The Daily News
1 Oh, my. Sometimes time grabs you by the wrist...
2 Let me get this straight. Anna Nicole Smith was 27 when the obvious love of her life, kajillionaire J. Howard Marshall II, 90, took off for that great cattle range in the sky, and within no time, she took her battle for his millions all the way the Supreme Court, where all nine justices agreed that she deserved the $474 million.
3 She so obviously was in love with him for HIM. Who would even begin to doubt that?
4 Some people have absolutely no shame.
5 Ah well.
6 Life is for learning. Seems the wrong people always seem to get stuff they don't deserve.
7 Speaking of which: the magic number of 714, meaning home runs, is now moving over to Barry Bonds. He's about to break Babe Ruth's record.
8 He deserves it. Anna Nicole Smith deserves the $474 mill.
9 Life just sends up these messages.
10 I'm a perfectly nice guy. I'm not going to have $474 millions any time soon. I don't do steroids. I don't lie to people. I especially try not to lie to myself. I'm a nice guy. At least I THINK I'm a nice guy.
11 Nice guys.
12 Is there any point to being honest and goodly anymore?
13 I guess my heart says that yeah, there really is.
14 Nice guys might finish last, but they finish first in other areas I imagine.
15 Yesterday Robert Morse, who played Seymour in Little Shop all those years ago, came and visited with his wife Angie and his beautiful son Nathan. I had been talking with Nik Baeza who appears this weekend in Macbeth at City College, and the three of us just talked of the miracles and memories we all have shared in our Theatre.
16 I had recently been going through a tremendous amount of personal angst, insecurities, you know, the usual everday insecurities and heartaches that are a natural part of living, when these guys, a good generation apart, met and chatted as though they had known one another forever.
17 The Theatre stories were shared and were remarkably similar, and we laughed and enjoyed the afternoon, as though all three of us had worked on the same show.
18 And when I finally got home from a long day and a long rehearsal, I just sat down and read about Anna Nicole Smith, and about Barry Bonds, and some of my personal sadness returned, and I sat down to crank out today's DN.
19 And then I thought of Nik. And I thought of Robert. And I thought of how Robert remembered Evelyn who remembered Robert, and who is now the Artistic Director of the Pigeon Players, who directed our Fall show, and I think to myself...
20 Robert, Nik and I, and later Kara Hatin' <ha!> stood outside the Theatre and talked and laughed and looked in, and time stood still.
21 I just looked in the door and saw kids from the musical on stage practicing dancing, and I said, "This place is just one huge memory factory, man!"
22 And Anna Nicole Smith with her $474 million, and Bonds with his record for guys who use juice, will never have those genuinely real and fun things, ever.
23 And I came home, thought of the sadness, the deep, deep sadness, and soon realized that in many ways, many of us are richer.
24 I thought of my family, and of my mom and dad, and of everyone I love, and looked again into the Theatre, the memory factory, and my heart lit up.
25 Somewhere in this DN there appears a shade of wisdom
26 Some how. Some day. Somewhere.
27 Peace.
~h~
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