August 27, 2002

My Good Friend John: "I cannot imagine what it would be like to be a woman. There are times (pretty often actually) when I can sink into being a man, and it is just fucking excellent. I feel like a giant, and the ground weakens beneath my step. I imagine being a woman is not like that, but I assume it is better somehow, like being a happy stick of butter that can order the giants around."

WHERE HAVE YOU BEAN? I thought I was well traveled. I've visited 48 of the 50 United States, trekked across Canada and hit the high spots of Europe. But holy frijoles! These beans have been everywhere!

THE LONGEST DAY: It's a good thing I checked my TiVo's To Do List in preparation to leave town for the holiday weekend. It turns out that the FX Network is re-running all 24 episodes of 24 consecutively from midnight on September 1 until midnight on Labor Day. I don't have enough disk space to record them all, and I never got the opportunity to see the show beyond the second episode. Fortunately, season one will be released on DVD next month also, in time to catch up before the next series begins airing on Fox October 29.

IN A WORLD...: If the film Comedian is even 1/10 as funny as its trailer, it's going to be a must-see. (And while the voice may sound familiar, I'm pretty sure that isn't Don La Fontaine. Any idea who the actor doing the sonorous, silly voiceover is?)

"LITTLE ROOM FOR RELICS": Late-Night TV has No Use for Old Troupers Anymore.

Charles Nelson Reilly is buried 650 feet beneath the surface of the Earth.

It's not his body, though. It's his body of work. Master tapes of his 98 zany appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" are now stored in a former salt mine far below Hutchinson, Kan., where old shows go. Mr. Reilly is entombed alongside Charo, Red Buttons and thousands of other talk-show guests of that era.

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