Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before the opening, I sprinkled every conversation with casual references to "this Stoppard show I'm opening in Thursday night." "Do come," I said to friend and total stranger alike; "the supporting cast is quite good, and I'm on stage the whole time." This line got me through many a dinner conversation in the week before my death...
Hart campaign manager Dixon said the allegations in the Herald story are "preposterous and inaccurate in their entirety. They have taken a casual acquaintance and a simple dinner with three friends and political supporters and attempted to make a story where there is none...
Today, the Rear Window continues to maintain this casual tradition. Kleiler shows his films in locations as diverse as Chet's Last Call, the Brookline Arts Center, and the Boston Food Coop. At a screening I attended last year, a series of Nick Zedd shorts were shown on a portable screen in the now defunct Studio 54 on Queensbury Street in the Fenway. The audience lounged on the floor, passing around beer from a Bud suitcase to friends and strangers alike, while Lydia Lunch spouted profanities overhead...
Despite its casual tradition, Kleiler expressed interest in bringing the Rear Window to a more permanent home, on one screen in a multi-screen complex for example. However, the large rental fees asked by larger houses to utilize their equipment (as much as $400 per night) make such plans unfeasible at the moment. The organization's limited budget would necessitate a more mainstream repertory program to pay the fees of such venues. Also, Kleiler remains committed to the Rear Window's more or less permanent home in Brookline, providing alternative programming for the area at the Brookline Arts Center...
...even larger than that big splotch on your head. Heh heh. A little joke there, dude. But seriously, why bother with the whole artificial death scene, man, I mean in the end it's all the same, right? I'm for just hanging loose, dude, like playing it fully casual--I say let's place a moratorium on doomsday machines, and then divert funds meant for the Defense Department to the Grateful Dead. You in, dude...