Mike Durrett CONFIDENTIAL

Mike Durrett: CONFIDENTIAL

Double Feature Kitties: 'Kitty Cat Dance' and 'Fly Guy'

Morty's uncovered a new Simon's Cat cartoon and a performance art music video.

He has eclectic tastes beyond snapper.

Simon's Cat in "Fly Guy" via YouTube

"Kitty Cat Dance" via YouTube
More: Simon's Cat

Mike Durrett: CONFIDENTIAL

Off the Wall

Saving Facebook: My Confessions

Can't believe how fast time passes. I remember when we all lived in the same apartment building, upstairs and down, like the Ricardos and the Mertzes.

I so miss those days. I got to be Lucy.

Working The Fab Fox [Theatre] this week. They let me wear a big hunk o' keys off a belt loop. How could I say "no"?

I'm getting into the new digital projector and its computers. Trying to figure out how to make my email show up on the big screen. That would give me something to do during WOODSTOCK.

Mike Durrett is exhausted after six straight days of prep and/or showing movies at The Fox. 76.25 hours, plus 4-hours or so daily commute. But, hey, I'm in show business.

Got four contractual bonus meals this time. It's like Vegas with Quiznos.

Probably today is the first time in 30 years I've uttered the term "Hasbro" -- and it came up in two entirely different scenarios.

I am afraid. Very afraid...

Anyone who truly knows me knows I act like I'm in my 20s, if not much younger when I'm being silly. I'm much older when I'm angry, though. I like to bonk idiots with my walker.

My mother probably saw BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S in original release (probably at the Fox), but she certainly saw Audrey [Hepburn]. She took to Holly Golightly's upswept hair look and that was Mom's style for years.

I was tackled and forced into crewcuts.

Upswept crewcuts.

Mike Durrett: CONFIDENTIAL

Mikellaneous

My Recent Confessions and Observations on Twitter, Where Everything Must Be Said in 140 Characters or Less

My doctor told me to stay away from salt. So the ocean is out this summer.

Whenever I think about TRANSFORMERS, I turn myself into a nap.

Ho hum. TRANSFORMERS. ... Hasbro-beens.

Watching the wall-to-wall Walter Cronkite coverage on TV. I had forgotten his THRILLER video...

Spending too much time prepping screening of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. First hints: sleep deprivation & legal name change to Mikey Golightly.

GUNFIGHT AT THE SOMEWHAT LACKING CORRAL ... #failedwesterns

HAIR BALL IN THE SADDLE ... #failedwesterns

ALUMINUMFOILADO ... #failedwesterns

DUEL IN THE SUNGLASS HUT ... #failedwesterns

HOW THE WEST WAS TWOFERRED ... #failedwesterns

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During Blake Edwards' "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) at the Fox the other night, I was struck by several details while performing my projection chores and, fate determined, munching Cracker Jack a la co-star Buddy Ebsen. The production encompasses a surprising array of personal pleasures: a favorite movie poster, moment, song, director, actress, and actor.

Although I've seen the romantic comedy on numerous television occasions, my Fox viewing was the first 35mm revisit since I was nine. I've long recognized Audrey Hepburn's remarkable, classic beauty, but the added jolt of her two-story high head on the theatre's large screen revealed even greater charms. In a film nearly one-half century of age, this lady looked as fresh and stylish as today, although the motion picture itself is firmly rooted in Kennedy-era hip, baby.

Below are several excerpts from "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Tops among them is the opening main title sequence, so simple and elegant and lovely and perfection. There's not much in cinema that fills me with warmth like the few minutes of the statuesque, bedazzling Miss Hepburn strolling up and peering into the famed jewelry store's windows on an early, peaceful New York morn, as the lush strains of Mercer and Mancini's "Moon River" enter our consciousness.

And she pecks a pastry.

I get tingly and contemplate puddles.

Next, I've posted sweet Audrey crooning that signature tune, written specifically for her, followed by the original "Breakfast at Tiffany's" theatrical trailer, curiously absent of "Moon River."

Oh, and that favorite actor of mine?

Kudos and kibble to Cat -- all nine of him, baby.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" Main Title via YouTube

"Moon River" via YouTube

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" Trailer via YouTube

Mike Durrett: CONFIDENTIAL

Big Weekend

I faced facts. It's time for another $20 haircut.

I go whenever I look like I should be on a twenty.

Mike Durrett: CONFIDENTIAL

I Got Nuthin'

Okay, I'm back to blogging.

Okay.

I am back.

Right here.

Right now.

Back.

Um, I got nuthin'.

"JK Wedding Entrance Dance" via YouTube
Thanks to Randy Stewart

Hey, Kids,

I'm prisoner in another no-sleep hell week at work, so I'll be a bit scarce here until the weekend, maybe. Check out the archives and catch up on all my sordid details. Morty's, too.

Mike