I'm trying to promote Peg and her shows and got it all set up with the Comic Relief Red Nose Day charity--which for the first time is bringing the USA under it's umbrella, so ideal for my purposes--and have created a Giving Page, transferred one of her old Kate Smith comedy sketches onto DVD and then into this machine, laid on new titles and the "Ethel and Albert" logo, and the only thing I need now is 15 seconds of film tops, of Peg, now, introducing it---and she is suddenly balking.
Because she doesn't get it. Even though I have explained this fifty times. Doesn't get why I want to "give away her shows for nothing". Doesn't get that the exposure for her would be fantastic. Doesn't get that Louise is coming down from Williamstown to shoot it (because I am not there to do it, and because if I ask Dawn, who lives closer, Peg will decide at the last minute that she doesn't like her and start bugging her about the Famous Collie Contract of yore, which Dawn incidentally helped create in good faith, and slam the door in her face). And she especially doesn't get why it would be in the spirit of the thing to wear a spongy red nose (2 going into the mail today, from here) while she says "Please give generously to Comic Relief".
[FYI, for more info: http://www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday]
So the next ten days, you can just tell, can't you, are going to revolve exclusively around TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR this red nose and will undoubtedly result in everyone getting pissed off and the whole shoot being cancelled. And or the bloody noses never arriving, having got lost in the mail.
Which again begs the question: why does one bother? One indeed wonders.
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