Travesties

The interviewee just left. I think I behaved all right. Phew.

Sam Waterston is coming to a theater in town to do a Tom Stoppard play next week. Tickets are $50. Think I want to go with Boyfriend. Sam used to be my favorite actor (back when L&O was cool and my favorite show), and Tom Stoppard could be my favorite playwright. “Arcadia” remains my favorite, favorite, favorite play, so funny, intelligent, and exquisitely heartbreaking.

Of course, in recent years L&O has become really insipid, less about clever legal maneuvers and more about solving gory murder cases with implausible twists. And why does every single episode have to have at least 5 minutes of Jack McCoy pontificating to the jury? How insulting of our intelligence.

I rather like the new L&O – Trial by Jury, mainly because I think Bebe Neuworth is HOT. Love all these shows with middle-aged women (Jill Hennessy, Bebe Neuworth, Teri Hatcher). Makes me feel hopeful that being 40+ isn’t the end of the world, after all, as previously believed.