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"Farnsworth" Gets Nominated

In what some will no doubt regard as a precursor to the Tony Awards, The Farnsworth Invention has garnered a number of nominations for the Drama League Awards:

Among new plays, “Eurydice” is the sole Off Broadway offering on a slate of nominees that includes new Pulitzer Prize winner “August: Osage County,” “The Farnsworth Invention,” “November,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” “The Seafarer,” “The 39 Steps” and “Thurgood.”

Included among the nods is "Distinguished Performance of a Play," and "Distingquished Peformance of An Actor" for Jimmi Simpson (Farsworth) and Hank Azaria (Sarnoff).

Nothing against Azaria, but we're rather pulling for Jimmi Simpson, who was positively riveting in the title role.

It's All In The Genes....

Or so one Farnsworth descendent would like to think:

Philo is my great grandfather's brother. Yeah! This is the statue of Philo T. Farnsworth at the Capital Building.

Perhaps it's possible that this claim to fame will have some effect on my children. For one, Philo was a very tall man (as you can see from the statue). Perhaps I've got some tiny bit of his genes, hidden somewhere in my body, that may be passed on to my son in hopes that he will gain some height genes from me (and not the genes that have kept me at 5'2").