If you don’t read MUG because you don’t live in New York or … well, that’s the only potentially good reason not to, actually. Anyway, if you don’t, you didn’t see today’s list of “What we’re dreading in 2005.” What a perfect day for such a list to appear — Inauguration Day! In fact, as I write this, I’m listening to some horrible operatic song at the ceremony (which I’m sure is extremely patriotic but doesn’t really do much for our aesthetic rep around the world). Today might even be a good day to post “What we’re dreading for 2005-2008,” but that might take a bit too much foresight.
Anyway, I just have to say what a brilliant list this is, starting with “Star Jones. The whole thing. Make it stop.” I believe I said as much the other night. Other highlights include: “That Frank Wildhorn is writing a new musical,” “That Sondheim isn’t,” and “That The Amazing Race won’t be on every week of the year.” I’m not sure there’s one item with which I disagree.
I would also add the following:
- That Michael Bay has directed a new movie.
- That Fox could turn its back on Arrested Development.
- That Chris Columbus will make Rent 2005’s Phantom of the Opera
- That Kathy Lee Gifford will write another musical.
- Speaking of musicals, that this (mentioned yesterday) will actually happen.
I’m sure there’s more I dread, but that’s all that immediately came to mind. Maybe it was hearing the incredibly misleading words “ownership society” again, but I got distracted. Obviously, the easiest thing to dread is that 2005 is only the first of four more years.
Out of Focus 