Kicking it into gear!

When Andrea dances on the 9 am show she looks elegant and graceful. When I do it I look well anything but elegant and graceful. But the producers still keep giving me segments where I have to dance. I did it with the folks from River Dance this summer. Yesterday it was me and the Rockettes. I am flanked by two of them. They were in town to promote the 75th anniversary of the show that has rocketed them to prominence. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular runs from November 9th through December 30th. Tickets are already on sale. http://christmas.radiocity.com/ The Rockettes tell me it will be spectacular. It should be since spectacular is what it's named. I am sure it will be, because let's face it, I won't be performing with them.

I started my day with the stars of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and ended the day with movie stars. Ben and Casey Affleck were in town last night for the Washington Premier of "Gone baby Gone." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/ Here's my review, it's a really great film. Ben does a stellar job in his directorial debut, and his brother Casey is terrific in the lead role. They were on hand before the screening in Georgetown. Ben spoke about the Washington connection to the film. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They helped Affleck with a lot of the technical questions, and even helped with some plot lines. A representative from NCMEC said that he felt the movie would do the same or more to draw attention to this issue than the Adam Walsh Story. The funny thing about Ben's speaking style, he is articulate, thoughtful, but he likes to use two words to punctuate everything. I swear he must have said "you know" at least a dozen times. Then he turned to his brother and said, "Cas you have anything to say?" Casey: "No I think you summed it up pretty good, I just want to say thanks for what you do." That was an obvious reference to the NCMEC, not me personally. After the film there was an after party hosted by Capitol File. Our good friend Jayne Sandman had the job of trying to keep all of those crazed fans from mobbing Ben.

Ben was a trooper he stuck around for a long time for pictures. His brother the star of the film wasn't hounded nearly as much as Ben. After this performance I'm afraid his time will come. If you get a chance catch the film it opens in theaters next week. My only complaint he does take a couple of shots at my business. But who hasn't taken a shot at the news media? Unlike most Hollywood movies that are black and white this one is definitely gray and it will leave you thinking when you walk out of the theater. What a novel concept.

Oh by the way I'll end with one final image of the dancing machine himself. I'll see you back here on Monday.