PRE-LATED HAPPY NEW YEAR

It is ALMOST the End of 2008!
It is Almost the End of the BUSH MUSH..
It is the End of so many things ...BUT it is also the BEGINNING of things ...New Things and New Ways and New Thinking and Actions.
I never make resolutions as I never remember them..
But I Will Try To Be Diligent and Forthright.
Health and Work are two things one must address.
My bout with Prostate Cancer in March 2007 informed my entire New Year of 2008 . Recovering from that surgery was very difficult and was such a consideration of all my progress. But that is now in control and I look forward to strength and health in 2009. Of course weight loss is a must after the BLOAT of the Holiday Indulgence!
I am very happy to be working as the Year Changes.
There have been many a New Year that was by a performance onstage. One of the best was during SUNSET BLVD at the Minskoff Theatre. On New Year's Eve they opened the LOBBY which is all floor to ceiling windows and overlooks Times Square. All in the show and their guests were invited to share the view and watch the Ball Drop and the people Cheer in the Streets.
My friend Clark's Confetti was showered over the proceedings by the ton!
It rained that night and the inside the lobby was like looking into an Aquarium as the rain spattered the huge glass walls and the Confetti stuck and slid off the surfaces.
There were many more ..one that comes to mind is the Millennium 2000 in San Francisco while on tour with CABARET. We as a company rented the Club Fugazzi and had a great time dancing and celebrating. Joely Fisher was our Sally Bowles and the "name" in the show. A more FUN person to party with one couldn't want at any gathering. A Great Gal for Sure!
As a kid my Mom would usually have a party and at midnight she and my Great Uncle would dress up as the Baby New Year and Father Time ..I give you one guess who was who!
There were traditional LENTILS that had to be eaten as my Aunt Lena walked about with a pot of them...and Jumping off a chair with MONEY in your Hand shouting "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!" All that amongst the tin noisemakers,horns and streamers!
Other fun New Year's Eve have been spent at our Pals Oscar Chamudes & Jeff Bernstein's large apartment above WHOLE FOODS (how convenient) on 7th Ave and 24th Street. I made Jeff's Aunt Anna's Bourbon Punch..ONE SNIFF and WHAMMO you are
ZONKERS. One reason for that is that a dozen Lemons are Soaked inn sugar and a quart of Bourbon for 24 hours..WOW!
But my favorite way to ring in the New Year is to be at Home with Jeff, snug and warm and watch it all on the TV..This doesn't mean i don't Jump off the chair with the Money in hand!
So if you hear a MANIACAL --HAPPY NEW YEAR..and a THUD..you'll know it was Me Cheering in the Birth of 2009 from a nearby chair!
May all your dreams and wishes come true in the New Year and may the new President fulfill our hopes and be true as the man we elected to CHANGE things for the Better!
ONWARD and

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

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