Jerry Orbach, aka Law & Order’s Lenny Briscoe, Baby Houseman’s father in Dirty Dancing, and the voice of the candelabra, Lumiere, in Beauty & the Beast, has died from prostate cancer at the age of 69. I am a huge L & O fan, and he was my favorite character. They always gave him the worst one-liners, but he delivered them as if he knew how horrible they were. I’ll miss him.
Archive for December, 2004
I know I’m a little late for this, but I just found it and thought it was awesome. So here ya go:
Last night we said goodbye to our dearest friends, Kate and Neil, who left this morning to move to Austin, Texas. Kate was the first new friend I made when I moved to LA almost eight years ago, and the two of them have been some of our closest friends ever since.
We ate together, drank together, partied like rock stars together (over many very very late nights!). Neil and I sang Tesla songs together, Kate and I danced like fools to eighties music together. And we all went to the midnight showings of Lord of the Rings together because, yes, we’re just that nuts. Kate was always there with a shoulder when I was freaking out over something, Neil was always there with a smoke and a movie when we just wanted to hang out. Their house was always the center of things, a meeting place where you could always find good friends and good conversation.
I will miss them dearly but know that this is the best thing for them - Kate is going back to school and Neil just really needed a change of scenery! I made them promise to email me every day and send pictures and letters and we promised to visit as soon as we can.
Our lives are changing and friends begin to spread their wings and leave the nest that is L.A. But I’m not too sad, because you know the friends you’ll have forever, that no time or distance can change, and Kate and Neil are truly friends like that. They will always be there and we will always love them.
We had a very lovely Christmas. I got a kick ass new iPod from my mommy and daddy, a beautiful new purse from my hubby (all of you who know me well know what a huge handbag whore I am), along with the Lord of the Rings DVD box set (woo hoo!), the Star Wars DVD box set and a digital photography book.
Then we went over to his grandparents’ house and hung out with his family for a while. That was great. His cousins were there and they are a riot, especially his five year old cousin Eraine, who sat on my lap and played patty-cake with me for like an hour.
Then we went to dinner at a yummy Chinese restaurant in West Hollywood with our very good friends Kate, Neil, Ryan, Daria, Michael and Christine.
It was a very different Christmas than I am used to, since we didn’t have any parental-unit or sibling types around and instead spent it with friends. But it was great, and it reminded me that you don’t have to be related to someone in order for them to be family.
Ha Ha, Kate and Neil. You will just be settling in to your new home city of Austin and will have to deal with stupid Real World’ers. You’ll have to tell us if you see them out and about.
Also, the judge I work for and his wife gave us a gift certificate for a two night stay at their favorite hotel in Paris. They know that we’re planning our trip for the spring, and they are huge fans of Paris. I think we’re going to save it for the end of our trip, when we’re headed home. After a month in hostels, a nice private hotel room around the corner from Notre Dame will be perfect.
For Christmas, my wonderful parents gave us a gift certificate to stay here. So yesterday I made our reservation to go Valentine’s Day weekend. I can’t wait. We’ll eat good food, do some wine tasting. And our room will have a king size bed, a fireplace and a jacuzzi tub. Doesn’t get much better than that!
You really should be. It is so clever and funny and creepy. Marcia Cross (crazy Kimberly from Melrose Place) is the best thing on TV.
“Ever since “The Lord of the Rings”, epic fantasy novels have been high on the bestseller list. Ever thought of writing one? WELL HERE’S HOW.” [link via snarkcake]
Take a look at this chart:
It shows that the FCC received 5 times as many complaints of “indecency” in 2004 than in 2003. That’s a huge jump. And according to CNN, just about 100 percent of the complaints filed in 2003 and 2004 (not counting the 530,000 official gripes over the Janet Jackson episode) were filed by the Parents Television Council, a group boasting more than a million members whose self-described goal is “to restore television to its roots as an independent and socially responsible entertainment medium.”
Who are these people and why do they feel they can speak for me? I think I can decide for myself whether I’m offended by a nipple, thank you. Can you believe that there were over half a million complaints about the Janet Jackson thing?? People are seriously uptight ’round here.
