Break a Leg Billy!

Billy Crystal’s big night is tonight. I love him; I root for him, even though he now looks a little like North Korea’s newly deceased dictator. Even though to many viewers’ minds it will be as if someone dug up Teddy Roosevelt and asked him to host the Oscars.

It’s not that way for me. And old Teddy Roosevelt could never do what Billy can do, however jovial he might have been with those great big chompers.

Just look at this tape from the early 80's. It's so funny with his bit about his high school full of meek Jewish kids facing off against the giants from Erasmus High.. And the part where he talks about puberty hitting. Billy sure had it ~  and my money says he still does.

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Mostly Dead

This is me napping. The cartoon just under this is by Bruce Eric Kaplan in a recent New Yorker. The set-up he gives on the site you can visit to see all his work says "In the middle of a cemetery, a thought bubble rises above the ground from someone beneath a grave.Of course people who say stuff like this aren't the real people;  they're the ones who say they're staying home for the summer if they're just hopping over to their 20-room 'cottages' in the Hamptons on summer weekends. I love it, feeling as lazy as I do this weekend. I don't feel exactly dead; just mostly dead as Billy Crystal says as Miracle Max in The Princess Bride. Watch the scene I'm referring to, which will take you right back in time to the comic heyday of Billy himself and Cary Elwes, and Carol Kane, all in this scene.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X90qKQAMh8A&feature=related]