a few updates and rants
2 May, 2007 at 2:02 pm 4 comments
Having got down to the last two from a gazillion agencies for The Pitch and getting through four full-on client pitch meetings at the other end of the country, we didn’t get it. Client decided to stay with the incumbent. WILL YOU PLEASE MAKE YOUR MINDS UP PEOPLE!
I watched The Departed last night (spoiler follows). Couldn’t they have thought of a few more imaginative ways of killing everyone off than just blowing their brains out? In fact, was it absolutely essential to the story to kill all but one of the characters off?
The Joseph/any dream will do consipracy theory continues. I realised last night that I’ve seen Daniel Boys from the program somewhere before – playing the lead role in Rent when I went to see it a few years ago. I’m not sure how playing the lead in a west end show qualifies him to enter a unknown-and-desperate-to-play-the-lead-in-a-west-end-show competition, but there you go…
I have to go and look around pet stores (detouring via the puppies and kittens) this afternoon, so its not all bad. Rants over, normal service resumes tomorrow.
Entry filed under: Life, Work. Tags: incumbent, Pitching, rant, The Departed.
1. ken richman | 3 May, 2007 at 1:03 am
Believe he was only the understudy so you were lucky (or unlucky depending how you see it) to see him in the role. The show promises the leading role to the winner i.e. it’s your face out there on the theatre hoardings, you the public pay to see, big difference.
2. almostalwaysthinking | 3 May, 2007 at 8:49 am
Good point Ken. I suppose the real prize is the fame that will inevitably come with winning – the actual role is more the icing on the cake.
3. NP | 4 May, 2007 at 12:22 pm
That sucks. Truly.
4. Rob Mortimer | 9 May, 2007 at 3:00 pm
The HK original (Infernal Affairs) is great, and supposed to be better than that version, ive not seen The Departed yet though…