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sometimes i worry that i'm gonna be one of those goatse cake people who can't have any jokes are points of reference unless they appear on the internet.
Has anyone ever been to a party where, by the end, it just devolves into people gathering around a computer and playing their favorite youtubes? that bums me out so much.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 19 February 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20049808,00.html
So when did Ben —
That day. Ozwald Boateng found out [I'd been dropped from ABC] because the press people — everyone started jumping all over me. He doesn't even know I'm on Grey's Anatomy. He's never seen the show. But he hears the story and goes, ''Oh, wow, that sounds intense.'' He goes, ''You know what? I think you should meet a friend of mine named Ben Silverman.'' We've already had dinner, we talked about our plans, and by the time we wrapped up that meeting, it was around 10 p.m. So he calls Ben Silverman, Ben Silverman calls him back, and he says, ''Look, I have a friend of mine here, we're finishing our meeting, and I think he's someone you want to meet.'' And Ben says, ''Who?'' And he says, ''Isaiah Washington.'' And he says, ''My God! Yes, I definitely want to meet him.'' So we get to Mr. Chow's, where Ben was having a celebratory get-together about his new position as cochairman of NBC. I was brought to his table immediately, and he didn't know yet — I don't think he'd received it on his BlackBerry yet — but I think word got around the room that night and he finally figured out that I had been let go five hours earlier. And he brought out this cake, with a picture of himself as the peacock, and behind his head were the feathers of NBC. And below the cake were some talons, and under the talons was the symbol of ABC and the other networks. And he looks at me and says, ''You're those talons. Blow out the cake.'' And I looked at him and I said, ''You've gotta be kidding me. I just got here, I just met you, you're being very kind, but this is your party.'' And he says, ''No. No. You're coming to NBC. Blow out the cake.'' And of course, all the executives, the people from [Silverman's production company] Reveille, are all standing there looking at me, like, Hey, cochairman just said blow out the cake. You need to blow out the cake. So I go, ''Okay, I'll blow out the candles on your cake.'' And again, I just said, you know, This is a good night, Ozwald Boateng is taking care of me, being a great friend right now. It all feels great. But still, tomorrow, the sun has to come up, and I don't know what to expect. When the sun came up, there was a call from Ben Silverman to my agent, saying, ''We're very interested in talking to Isaiah about whatever it is he wants to do here at NBC. And we're very interested in having him meet with the creative team to be a part of Bionic Woman.''
― harry s tfuman (and what), Thursday, 19 February 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link