Bathroom Art

Found in Men's Room at Rehearsal Last Night.  It makes me wonder what this person was thinking.  "I really want to STICK it to the drug companies... Wait'll they see THIS!"

Ticket Master Blows

Just got Kathrine and I tix for Regina Spektor.  They came in the mail yesterday.  I just checked my bank and saw I was charged for $93!  These tix are $33 each.  So how you get the extra $30?  A "facility" charge + a "convenience" charge + "order processing".  Pearl Jam, where are you and why have you forsaken me?  Someone needs to take Ticket Master down a peg.  They are getting ridiculous.  

My Top Three Predictions for The Del Close Marathon

Check out my predictions for the marathon along with Besser and D.C. Pierson, and a bunch of other people's thoughts on some shows to see, and tips for staying alive... I mean comfortable in  this post at the Apiary.  

TWIB Notes

I'm watching Network today. And it's like watching the original Studio 60. Everything is there. The anchor who goes crazy(Peter Finch/Judd Hirsch in Studio). The young executive who's going to make the ailing show work(Faye Dunnaway/Amanda Peet). The old director who falls for the young executive(William Holden/Bradley Whitford).

But I'm bored. And there's 40 minutes left. And I'm tired of the hahaha, a revolutionary gets corrupted by the network.

This is one of those movies that I felt, I should see this, and it feels like homework. Snoozeville.

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At the elliptical machine at the gym, there's a readout for the number of watts you are producing. Who gives a shit about this? The only reason I could think it would be relevant is if the machine is powered by your electricity. Otherwise, is someone thinking---gee I really need to be producing 200 watts to get a good workout. I don't buy it.

TWIB Notes

--Today was my birthday.

--Yesterday, there was another important birthday; I became an uncle again. A little girl named Lillian Gween Yeo was born on Saturday night. She is my niece!

This is her. She might not look happy about it. But I am.

Cap In Hand

I went home for Memorial Day Weekend. To see the fam, and also to see Kayla play softball and to go to see the Nat's new stadium. It's beautiful. Check it. Supposedly, it's the largest scoreboard in all of MLB.
Here's Kayla getting ready to take the field. You'll note there is a lot of pink going on with these kids outfits. There's pink helmets, pink mitts, pink batting gloves, pink bats, pink shoes. Surprisingly, the balls are not pink. But yellow. So it's easier to pick them up in the batter's box.
Her team name was the Red Cherries They faced a team called the Vicious Puppies. The Vicious Puppies were just as their name advertised. Some good hitters on the Puppies. And the dads were just as vicious. In this league, kids are just supposed to take one base on a hit. And you bat all the way through. You can record outs but it doesn't matter if you get nobody out or everybody out. But these dads were having their kids go for extra bases if it got past the infielders or if the infielders bobbled the ball. Not cool.
Then on Sunday, we went to see the new Nats' stadium. Here's all three generations of Nat's fans in the Shelkey family. We had a lot of different food at the ballpark including some half smokes with chili, cheese, and onions on them, some boardwalk frieds, cotton candy, regular hot dogs, and of course--dots! I was a little disappointed the dots didn't come in the plastic baseball hat. But I guess you can't get EVERYTHING right in the first year right?
And finally, a style debate. I got a blue Nats' cap b/c my red one which Purnell awesomely procured for me before is a little too small. But now I think I got one too big. So I need that goldilocks one in between. Note: It is really hot in my apt, and I have my shirt off. So that's why you get to see the sexy shirtless hat pics. I feel like it's too early to turn on the air conditioning. So I am surviving on shirtlessness and a fan.

TWIB Notes

I cannot stand that commercial that is for some drug where the guy works on models. And then he asks the doctor how they can shrink the problem? The thing that upsets me? His model of the universe is soooo shitty. I mean, this is this guy's job. And yet his model of the universe looks like something I could do in 5th grade. Sidenote: I always hated those kids who did diagrams and models of things. Those aren't science projects! You didn't test anything!

Anyway, and everyone in the thing is ooing and aahing like it's this big accomplishment. Verdict: Dumb commercial.

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I placed two bets for the Preakness today and lost. It was exciting and then not in such a quick period of time. I guess that is what gambling is. It's over so quickly.
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I hate David Archuleta so much. I think I just have a problem with people that seem like everything is great with them. That it's all just smiles and happy faces. I like people to look like they have a little misery in their life. They seem like a more genuine person then. Is that a really awful thing to think? But I do. So I'm down for David Cook for the finals in American Idol. If Archuleta wins, it's a win for Pollyannas everywhere and I think we know that is one more point for evil.
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Huck Slim is up again tonight at Sidewalk Cafe. I am aiming on those people that read my blog incessantly and so will see this an hour before the gig and decide to go. It's going to work. I just know it!

TWIB Notes

APT
Dear Reader, I know you are waiting with baited breath(sidenote: the concept of baited breath is pretty gross, right? And how dumb do you feel to get baited by someone's breath? I wonder what smell on someone's breath would reel me in.. Must protect myself from future attacks). Pretty much finished painting the living room. So that means if I don't paint the bathroom or the kitchen, I'm done! The new couch arrives this week. Hopefully in time for the Oscars. Anyway, Feb 19th and one NY resolution? DONE! I'm working on the gym and website design next I think. And some character ideas.

AROUND THE HORN
So... Clemens. Clearly, he's lying. It makes you sad. Because there's no reason for Andy Pettite to lie right now. He could have done the same thing that Bonds, Palmeiro, and others have done which is to lie or just hope that it goes away. But no, he admitted he did it. And then answered truthfully about one of his best friends.

Who smells mini-series or tv movie of the week? (Do they still do those?)

More crazy to me was the assertion of another ballplayer that they were missing hundreds of players who used steroids/HGH. HUNDREDS! I like Pedro's assertion that he dominated that era and he was clean. He's right. And no one would ever say Pedro was on the juice. Dude has been injured more than anyone save Mark Prior.

Also, hopefully you guys watched or listened to some of the hearing. I was livid at the pandering to Clemens from some of the congress peeps. "Which uniform are you going to wear when you get into the hall of fame?" "You're going to heaven, I know that" What??

MICHAEL, THAT RESPONSE IS ILLOGICAL
Ten thousand years ago, in my youth, the show known as Knight Rider premiered. I still maintain it was one of the best pilots of any show ever. 2 hours! And at the end the guy's face is redone with plastic surgery and out comes Hasselhoff as Michael Knight. Pretty brills.

Well, I watched the new Knight Rider this weekend. And it wasn't as good. It was 2 hours long. And the best part was towards the end where Michael Knight's son(who will drive the new KITT) is at his mother's funeral. And off in the distance you catch a glimpse. Could it be? Is it? Are you sure? YES! It's the Hoff! And he has a brief exchange with the kid.

Here's something else... the voice of KITT is Val Kilmer, but it was slated to be Will Arnett! How awesome would that have been? But nope. We're stuck with Val. Who was fine. But I'd either want that St. Elsewhere guy from the first one or this new idea with a zany KITT.

LEMING OFF THE CLIFF
Speaking of illogical, my AI fave, Joshiah Leming, got kicked off before the final 24. This is total b.s.! He was the most interesting out of all of them. He was the first AI contestant that I actually looked him up on the internet b/c I wanted to get some of his music. Of course, he writes his own songs so that's part of it. But he's got an interesting lilting voice. Not the pop power r&b voices that most of the AI crowd has. Still, Joshiah said he sold 800 albums after this so I suppose he's still doing well. Is he really living in his car? What is that fake accent? I don't care. I like him.

But now, I'm rooting for the Austrailian guy and the Irish girl. Outsiders all the way!

PLAY REPORT
We saw THE SEAFARER on Saturday. It was good but not great. [SPOILER ALERT]I think mostly I was unprepared for the appearance of Ciaran Hinds as the devil. Up till then, I was enjoying the good times of the Irish dudes. The crack, as they say. Still, all the acting was really good. David Morse's accent was solid. So, I was content if not satisfied. Kathrine's pronouncement: Too much yelling.

TWIB Notes

Some notes from around the league. Err.. of Nate.

GIRL POWER
This is my newest guitar pupil. Look at Polly rocking out! Polly took guitar lessons when she was 10 years old so her guitar is 3/4 size. And hasn't really touched it since then. I started teaching her a month or so ago. She's getting better. And we changed her strings. Which were 10 years old. Those strings were older than all of my nieces and nephews. Speaking of...

CAT SCRATCH FEVER
This is my niece Caroline. Pretty cool cheerleading outfit right? Wonder what sort of cool uncle got her that? Sidenote: They play Ted Nugent's song "Cat Scratch Fever" at Panthers' games. Because they are panthers. Still, I feel like it is the first time I have heard that song since being a child growing up in the 70's.

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, MONETARILY
Jason Garrett, the Cowboys' offensive coordinator, was given a raise by Jerry Jones, the Cowboys' owner. He now makes 3M a year. What is interesting about this is not only is he the highest paid assistant coach in the land. He also makes more than the head coach, Wade Phillips. I thought this would be remedied by a new contract for Wade. But it hasn't happened yet. This was a month ago. How awkward is that?

IDOL WATCH '08
Since there is not much new on the airwaves these days what with the WGA strike, I have been watching American Idol. Ok, that's a load of b.s. I would have watched it anyway. They are really amping up the whole this contest is a life changing experience for people with sob stories galore. "Singing on American Idol will bring my dad home from Iraq!" "This is my version of 'Funkytown' to let my sister with cancer, I am thinking about her." It's ruthless. And tasteless. But it makes for good trashy television. Still, I'd rather we just cut straight to the awesome and pitiful performances. I've said it before, I'll say it again--Ryan Seacrest earns his $ on that show. He has to keep a straight face talking with the crazies and show genuine compassion to the cry babies. He does it all. And he's able to keep his smarm factor down which was off the charts in season 1 and 2.

SUPER JACKED FOR SUPER TUESDAY
I'm pretty excited for Super Tuesday to roll around on Feb. 5th here in the NYC. Because it's the first time it really mattered. Get to make a real difference on who might run for the Dem nom. You want to know which way I'm voting? Here's a hint: I'm going with the young man.

PICTCHAS
Because I pride myself on being a good uncle, I did some research the other day. I netflixed "High School Musical". For youse not in the know, kids everywhere are crazy about HSM and Hannah Montana. They are really batshit crazy about this stuff. I got my niece Kayla this Wii game where you can sing all the songs from HSM. I wanted to do some duets with her but I didn't really know the words. Well, later I made a mix of the songs and then I watched the movie. Now, I'm ready!

But you know what? The movie's not half bad. The one thing is disturbing is they have this brother/sister team and their relationship is a little weird I think. They sing a song that the main love interests sing too. Until I saw the movie, I didn't realize they were brother/sister. Ummm... creepy. Still, it's a good song.

In other movie news, I think they are going too far with the "Computers Are Cool" notion. And just general technology. It's one thing to have a sci-fi movie. It's another to have current technology and spin a thriller from it, ridiculously. Enter ONE MISSED CALL. This movie is the evolution ripoff of The Ring. You'll remember in the Ring, people watch a video tape of some weird scattered grainy images. 24 hours later, they die. Then there was that movie where if people visited some website, 24 hours later they'd die. Well, now, apparently someone leaves a voicemail on your phone and it's your death. You're listening to a recording of how you die. And then ho hum. 24 hours later you die.

Come on people, it needs to have sort of thread of reality if you're making it out to be a modern day picture. What sort of voodoo is being done so someone can travel back in time with a recording of someone's death? I don't buy it.

Still, maybe this is more exciting than in the vast number of movies where you need some sort of exposition to take place, ,or plot development, and it takes place in front of a computer, normally Google.

APT
I start painting this weekend for the living room. New Year's resolution here we come!

The List: Resolutions, A Baker's Dozen

In order to make myself honest, I'm going to pen my resolutions on ye olde bloggy. Here's what I got for 2008:

1) Make a reel. I finally have enough stuff to warrant a reel. I've got the tv mini-series(Windy Acres), the Onion stuff, the ESPN stuff, some shorts(Farminals, Mohels and other Channel 102's, Meditation on Mini-Golf, etc), some random tv stuff including Jeff Foxworthy's Roast on Comedy Central, and Damage Control. These last two things I think will be good for a montage as my parts are minor. I play a secret service guy and a guy with a hazmat suit on. And then there are the commercials. So.. it is time.

2) Get a legit agent.

3) Check out pilot season, 2009.

4) Finish redecorating apartment. I'm almost done really. I mean, maybe figure out the walls. But bedroom is almost ffinished, and after I get my bonus I'm going to buy a new couch and paint the living room. With any luck, I'll have the scratch to get a new armchair too. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to hide and compartment my musical gadgets.

5) Take a real vacation in 2008.

6) Dovetailing on that, go skiing. I haven't taken a real vacation in like 2 or 3 years. And not out of the country since 2003 I think? And I haven't been skiing in over 8 years. It is time.

7) Begin actual savings to buy an apartment.

8) Develop fan base for Huck Slim; Book some bigger venues like Rodeo Bar and Knitting Factory. Record proper album(maybe at least 10 songs?) I definitely have enough new songs.

9) Buy new clothes(I have to force myself to buy clothes. Trying to start a habit to be better dressed.) including another suit. I remember filming one of the Onion pieces and Huskey was wearing this snazzy new suit(perhaps sponsored by his legion of Sonic ads?) from Burberry. And I thought, I need to step it up! I'm in my shabby suit-for-all-occasions-wedding-funeral-bah mitzvah that I've had for like ten years. Plus watching an incessant number of Project Runway and Tim Gunn's Guide To Style has been made more self-conscious about ye olde wardrobe. I went last fall(2006) and scored a Michael Kors suit with my fashion stylist Polly. Need to make it a yearly thing. It is time.

10) Write a show to perform at UCB. It's been a couple of years since the ill-fated Inquisitors. Time to try again. I have some ideas... got to get to work on it.

11) Have a party at my place. I had a celebrity party there ten thousand years ago and it was a ton of fun. Once I get everything done with the painting and such, I need to have another one.

12) Re-join ye olde gym. Time to get back on the horse.

13) Treat my blog better. Facelifts for both this site and huck slim.

So there you go. It's pretty ambitious, right? But I like to make a lot of goals, some that are "reach" goals and some that are easy, and some are that are normal. That way by the end of the year, if I accomplish half of them, I'll feel like a success. I mean let's look at them. #1, 4-7, 9, 11-12? They are all pretty easy. Number 2 is a toughie. Number 3 gets a lot easier if number 2 is conquered as well as 1 and 10. And number 10 just requires some getting off my duff and doing it. And I've already started working on number 13. See? Not so hard. This resolution stuff is a piece of cake.

TWIB Notes

FOUR EYES
Glasses. I done got new glasses. A pic for this to come too. Also, if you happen to spy my For Eyes commercial please let me know! Or if you see it on the interwebs please forward. I really want to see it. If I haven't told you about this before, it involves a dude trying on glasses and when he does, laser beams shoot out of his eyes and go around the store destroying things. The very last thing the laser hits is my butt. Which causes a small explosion and smoke. I had to wear a special pair of explosive pants for this(which had wires going up and down the whole thing which set off the little squibs(explosives).

This is a little scary as you'd imagine. Especially when the pyrotechnics guy says to you: "This is going to feel like a little warm(referring to my crotch). If it feels a lot warm, let me know." I could make some sort of joke about my crotch always feeling a little warm because of my unit. But I won't. I will just let you fill in the joke for yourself thus saving us both the trouble.

Anyway, there was also a nurse on set that made sure everything was alright with my pants and me after each take. We shot it a bunch of different ways as far as ouch that hurts fanning the flame shenanigans to indifferent New Yorker attitude to laser in pants encounter.

The best part is the contract which I have suitable for framing. The line for my part says, "Customer/Butt".

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SILVER BELLS
It's December 3rd and remarkably, I'm prolly 85-90% done with my Christmas shopping. Pretty exciting! I basically knocked out all of my nieces and nephews. Because I discovered something sad this year.

I am going to be the only sibling home for Christmas. Everyone else in the ol' Shelk fam is done married. So they are spending Christmas with the other side of the family. It makes for some lonesome times. Because normally they'll alternate with Thanksgiving. So you get a good Christmas or a good Thanksgiving but never both. Oh complexities of modern life!

But it's much lonelier when it's Christmas. And I thought, well if I'm buying all these gifties for these kids but they aren't going to be here, what's the point of bringing them home? I should just send them.

Which means, wow, the Christmas tree is going to be pretty bare this year.

I still need to get something for the girlie and some other people, but the bulk of it is done. So there's that.
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BACK IN THE SADDLE
The Cowboys are 11-1. Pretty sweet! This means with a little bit of luck, they will prolly get home field advantage in the playoffs. Which is good news for a possible Super Bowl run. Of course, this still means they'd likely face the Patriots. But we'll conquer that when we come to it. I'm just happy the Cowboys are finally relevant again. This might seem whinerish a bit like a Yankees fan complaining, but we Cowboys have gone through lean times before. We just have also had fantastic highs too(the 70's, the early 90's)but between those periods. It's been a funk. I think that after the 90's superbowls it was a bit like the fall of Rome. Everybody got so happy with themselves that the team because ridiculously self-confident and begain to fall apart. My big brother used to call that team the Crack Wagon.

But now, we've emerged with a young plucky Tony Romo to lead us to the promised land and watching Cowboys games are fun again.
Sidenote: How bad do you feel for Joe Gibbs? He makes the big blunder call in the emotional game after Sean Taylor's murder. Yeesh. Poor Joe.
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BEDROOM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
I've been on a home improvement kick lately. The first task has been the bedroom. It's got all new furniture, plus a brand new paint job, and some other new stuff too. Next will be the main room. I'm gonna post a whole little photo tour of everything in a bit.
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TIME OFF
Going to Charlotte this week. So I'll be sure to take lots of pics of Linus and Anderson. And when I go home from Christmas I think I should be able to get some of Dylan and Kayla. Just not on Christmas proper. Then I will take some of me and my parents being lonely at the siblings who've abandoned us. Sniff. Sniff.

But I'm excited for this month because I have a lot of vacation time that I have to use or lose it. So I have two four day weekends and then the whole 22-New Year's off.

TWIB Notes

--Finally, they kicked off Melissa on Hell's Kitchen! I hated the sound of her voice. Long Island accents are particularly piercing. Is Rock going crazy? I think he's going to have a meltdown at some point. Don't the guys really have to step it up at this point? For those of you who aren't paying attention, it's now the girls(the nanny, the Waffle House cook, and the pastry chef) vs. the guys(sous chef, sous chef, executive chef). They SHOULD win if it was based on their experience. But that's why they play the games err... have the episodes.

--This is a song my brother wrote and we recorded it on our birthday. The fun thing is that I got a phone call while we were recording so you can hear me in the not so faint background. I like to imagine it has the same poignance that Simon & Garfunkel's "Silent Night" cover has with the evening news on in the background. Only, less artful. That was not an Art Garfunkel joke, but if you wished it was, you can just act like it was.



--I just went to an audition today in a waiting room filled with various people from different time periods. The best was a dude dressed up like a viking complete with like leather armor and a sword and one of those horn hats. Who has those things? I was chatting with Dave Hill who was there too about how many calls this guy must get. Are Vikings in constant need? Let's hope so. Or else this call spent too much dough on a horn hat.

--I'm in Rob Lathan's awesome life coach show(Get Psyched!) again this Saturday at UCB if you're around. It's @ 7:30 and we're after Eliza Skinner's show too. I'm excited to finally see that one.

--At least once a day, for the past 2 weeks someone has come up to me at work asking about the Manny. It's amusing. If only for the fact that no one normally comes up to me at work for stuff I do outside of work(maybe the ESPN stuff, and commercials). But at least not with this frequency. Today, a guy came up that I haven't worked with for like oh five years? He came up to me in the burger line and said, "I gotta hug this guy cause he can sing!"

That's all for now.

Controversy!

Perhaps you've seen the little feud shaping up between Dan Rather and Katie Couric? He said this in an MSNBC interview "The mistake was to try to bring the 'Today' show ethos to the 'Evening News' and to dumb it down - tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience."

People are up in arms about the tart business there. But it's not something that hasn't been said before. I don't think it was that egregious at all. I think he's right. It's precisely what has been happening with CBS News and anyone who doesn't think so hasn't really watched it lately! It's ridiculous.
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Some TWIB Notes:

--If you are watching tv and see this Stop & Shop commercial where a bag of cat food and dog food are talking to each other? And the cat food is hitting on the dog food? That cat food is voiced by me. Now, I just eagerly await my exploding pants commercial(I am not making this up).

--Cavs/Spurs: Most boring NBA Finals of all time? Prolly. Somehow it isn't as exciting seeing Bron Bron in his first finals as I thought it could be. But the problem is he has nobody to play with. And he just lacks the killer selfish instinct to be a one horse johnny.

--Hell's Kitchen is on again! (It's pretty good. I'm not sweet on anyone has much as I was for Virginia, but still good.) I am so happy for something to cut through the summer glut. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm open to them. So far, I am watching Creature Comforts and Hell's Kitchen, and come next week, The Flight of the Conchords.

--Speaking of, we saw them last night. They were great! I think, dare I say this, even better than Tenacious D!

--Dyna was asking me if Brent and I are going to wear matching shirts again this year. Brent's wife Meredith does this cute thing where she buys us matching shirts every year and makes us wear them. Don't know if that will happen this year or not. But my favorite still was the Hawaiian shirts from our 30th. I should compile a photo collage of our matching shirts. Note to self.

--Huck Slim goes into the studio again this weekend. So hopefully after this w/e 6 new tracks will be ready for a demo. Exciting! Look for it soon.

--I think Toys 'R Us is running some sort of scam. Or maybe the cost of moving sand really is expensive. I wanted to get a sandbox for my nephew this week but the shipping on sandbox is $200! Yeesh. So I guess we're going to wait until I see him in person to go get it. It's just as well, this means I get to play in the sandbox too now.

TWIB Notes

A few things...

--I went to San Loco today where they had 20 cent tacos in honor of their 20th anniversary. YUMMMM!! I had three tacos and it was less than a dollar. That's what I call a deal.

--In the process of writing that first sentence, I realized that the cents symbol is no longer on the keyboard. This is sad as it means it is no longer useful. Oh Inflation! I hate you.

--Watched a whole special on Houdini today and saw something amazing. No, it wasn't something Houdini did(although he did a lot of amazing things.) No, it was the fact that one of the talking heads on the program was Teller from Penn & Teller. Yes, THAT Teller, the one who's whole bit in that magic duo is that he never talks. So I heard Teller talk. As you might expect, it's not that exciting. If you thought that he had some sort of screeching banshee wail of a voice? Well, he doesn't. The funny thing though was that they blacked out his face. As if that saved the secret of him talking, and yet they still had the little byline underneath his blacked out form saying he was Teller. Weird, right?

--The most interesting thing learned about Houdini is that he always said that no one could ever hurt him by punching him. I guess he had really strong abdominal muscles or something. So when he's over 50, he gives a speech at a college and later that day, some college students come by to visit him. And one of them wants to test his lifelong challenge and asks if he can punch him. Houdini agrees. And the dude punches him. Not once but three different times. And apparently Houdini wasn't ready for one of the later punches, he hadn't tensed his stomach muscles. And as a result of this he has appendicitis.

Well, Houdini has a show to do. And he refuses to go to the doctor, he decides to finish the show first. And he ends up dying as a result. Some people say he would have died anyway. But the punch story is interesting.

--In the topic of most annoying cheapie cable commercials, there is a new contender in the field. I was at an audition the other day with Anthony and he mentioned the Sir Charge(Surcharge) commercials for Time Warner. And yes, those are ridiculous. But there's also commercials for Daisy Mae BBQ. Now, if you haven't been to Daisy Mae, it's some tasty 'cue. Let me get that off my chest, before I trash their awful commercial. They must spend all their money on tastiness and none on ad budget. Because the commercial has this lame theme song that I suppose is supposed to sound like the Pogues or some sort of Irish band. But that's not the worst part. No, the worst part is this girl who is playing I guess a waitress and she's using this really weird lame faux put on Southern accent. It's actually hard to tell what sort of accent she's using. It's the sort of Southern accent one might encounter in 7th grade while taking Speech & Dramatics or something like that.

Which makes me wonder about these commercials, and the actors in these commercials. Who are they? Are they really actors? I am hoping instead that they are friends of these places. I hope that Sir Charge and Daisy Mae girl are just good friends of Time Warner and Daisy Mae BBQ. Maybe they work there. I mean, we KNOW Nino is invested in Nino's because he's NINO. So that makes sense to me. But when it's someone that isn't easily identified as belonging to the company?

I also wonder about all of those testimonial commercials. Because after awhile you realize that a lot of times, commercials are just filled with actors, even when they say or seem to represent normal people. But I can't believe that the person who was in those famous Broadway commercials("we laughed, we cried, it was better than Cats") are actors. If they are, they are awful. And if they are awful, why are these companies hiring them? But maybe they can't tell? I don't know. The whole thing just bothers me.