Watched a good much of the Tony awards. Neil Patrick Harris as host was – wait for it – awesome! His closing musical number was great – he has such a nice singing voice! In fact, I wished he was more on the show than the presentation of the musical numbers from musicals now on national tours (clearly making the Tony awards show a huge commercial for musicals, rather than an awards show and a show to promote the nominated shows (which may or may not be still on Broadway and in need of audiences) or currently opened shows for that matter). I thought it was irritating that just before the end of the night, it was irritating to see… Jersey Boys? (insert eye roll here). Please, while it was mildly entertaining, it simply did not belong on this night and it wasn’t even the original cast (who had the best voices, including the original Frankie Valli actor).
Time’s James Poniewozik on the NPH’s role as host was pretty much on target (I had to think about the sushi reference; forgot about Jeremy Piven’s mess with bailing on the play “Speed-the-Plow” because of alleged mercury poisoning).
NY Times’ live-blogging on the Tony awards was a good read.
Congratulations to Roger Federer for (finally) winning the French Open, and ensuring his place as one of the greatest.
I’m not in the private sector, but I’m still waiting for the cultural shift to affect the legal profession – if and only if the old white shoe Big Firms can figure it out already – the old model of (legal) business isn’t quite working and you’re going to have to shrink and cut back on your extravagances.
Fascinating article in the NY Times on Judge Sotomayor’s ADA days. Indeed, it sounds like the gritty career of a lot of young ADA’s (putting aside that it was the grittier 1970’s/1980’s). It has been awhile since the US Supreme Court had someone with her career perspective, if it all; could be interesting, since it sounds like she has the capacity of being empathetic to the law and order side of things (yes, I’m using the word “empathy” – it’s not like it’s a bad word). (and apparently, she likes the tv show, “Law and Order” – which apparently is a trend among powerful women – hmm…)
The New Yorker has a conversation with William Bowen, the former President of Princeton, regarding Judge Sotomayor and the issue of affirmative action in universities. Interesting article.
Ending this post with commentary about tv – there might be a trend in which more Canadian television might coming stateside. I haven’t gotten around to watching CBS’ “Flashpoint” (starring Enrico Colantino, aka the ex-Veronica Mars’ dad as the head of a Torontonian SWAT team – wait, Toronto has SWAT?), but I was a fan of “Due South,” the last Canadian import (which CBS treated rather badly). I remember the days when Canadian actors played Americans; I’m still a little weirded out by the Brits and Australians playing Americans.