Listen to Di talk about her early career on Trim™

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Di & Ryan strike a pose

After I’m sent to Sing Sing for the alleged crime of keeping an audio casting couch in my ToK WWWadio™ studio, I hope Holly Golightly will visit me.

Di was having some difficulties with this episode of Trim™ and as we were trying to decipher the mystery of an intermittent hum she decided to take matters into her own hands and, ahem, remove the problem.

Two faces of Tiffany

I did not suggest that she take it off, but I am a bit demanding, during a production, and I heartily applaud her commitment to the scene, which captured faithfully her youthful exuberance for getting off the ground, getting in the air and getting out of Iowa. Now, I may need to get out of Dodge until the prudes put down their pitchforks.

Yeah, yeah, just call me Uncle Perv the Podcaster. How was I supposed to know what was causing the hum? How big was that belt buckle, anyway? I should have had her send me a photo.

It wasn’t the belt buckle that raised my eyebrows and had me sit up straight, however. I admit to listening more carefully for the rest of the taping when she confessed what she had to do to get into character.

Will the real Tiffany please remove her tiara

Di also shared about her latest Saturday night out for a friend’s 50th birthday party featuring a Breakfast at Tiffany’s theme. Enjoy the photos and costumes, plus rent the film, sometime. It’s a classic.

Now, I have to go put the couch in order because I have an audition in a moment for a new podcast I’m working on. It’s called Bad Audio Hum and it’s going to be a hard lead to cast.

This original story (don’t try to rip me off) is about naive Holly Hummer who wants to make it big as a Las Vegas singer, though she can’t carry a tune in a bucket.

Things start looking up, though, when our young starlet falls in love with a mob boss who owns several high-rollin’ hotels along the strip, but it all goes south when she witnesses a string of hits. Thirty-three people very dear to Holly die tragically when they attend her first sold-out show. Is it bad luck, bad timing or just bad singing?

In order to survive, Holly ends up wearing a wire for the Feds while running for her life, chasing down a dream and bending over backwards to please her tone-deaf agent. Comedy ensues as she’s constantly being discovered in compromising positions by her main squeeze, Jimmy “Two-Fingers.” It’s easy to fall in love with Holly, if you have two fingers. One for each ear.

In a totally unanticipated moment, Holly falls in love with the Federal agent assigned to her, and when Jimmy loses his final two fingers in a wacky Waring blender accident, Holly and the Fed ride off into the Witness Protection Program. A piece of toilet paper stuck to the agent’s shoe gets the attention of an alert mob thug, which sets us up for a sequel.

This will be a great role for an up-and-coming actress as long as her magnetic charm doesn’t screw up my recording. It’s these behind the scenes technical snafus that can turn a potentially great podcast into just another B-podcast. Cut and print . . . that’s a wrap.

I wonder how much a good webcam costs?

The Kat