I have been BUSY this week. Mostly with non-acting-related, life-sustaining frustrating activities like car repairs, paying bills, trying to figure out how to pay certain large bills that found their way (unexpected & uninvited) to my home, handling other miscellaneous...
My adorable friend, Louisiana Mary, just got back from a slew of commercial auditions. I asked her how they went and she said, "Eh, most of them were lame." What did that mean, I asked. She said, "You know, I...
I got another call last night from the agency that sent me out last week ??? and my heart jumped, hoping I was called-back for that telecom spot. But I wasn???t, and I have a feeling the ship has sailed...
Well, I did it. I sent my final list to the photographer. Of course, there are 6 photos on that list so??? I???m still not certain which to definitely use. But, the re-touching has begun which brings me one step...
It has become habit for me to write, blog, journal or email when I'm mentally processing something. Right now I feel I'm mentally processing so many things at once that...it's a lot. So...if this is fuzzy...it's fuzzy. Consider this me,...
In this week's issue of Time, Richard Zoglin describes in his article "Bye Bye Birdie. Hello, Rent" the many ways in which high school musical theatre programs across the country are maturing and evolving, evidenced primarily by the nation's first-ever...
Yeah, that's a terrible pun. But Variety reports that producer Stephen Byrd is planning to make a film adaptation of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, starring the all-black cast of his current Broadway revival. From Variety: Byrd said he...
The disaster at the Sago Mine in West Virginia was almost two and a half years ago, but when actor Heather E. Cunningham, artistic director of Off-Off-Broadway's Retro Productions, came across Sally Nemeth's play Mill Fire, memories of that event...
Those who doubted that an action movie headlined by a 43-year-old former drug addict could gross $102.1 million on its opening weekend need look no further than the success of Iron Man for proof they were wrong. Aside from being...
In a Talk Back in our April 24 issue, Erik-Anders Nilsson criticized a petition calling for "qualified voting" in the Screen Actors Guild, which would require that members meet certain benchmarks in order to vote on a contract. The petition...
She made history as the first primetime star to come out on a sitcom, ABC's "These Friends of Mine," a dozen years ago. So why shouldn't Ellen break more ground by announcing her marriage on TV today, shortly after the...
Since it's Africa hot in Los Angeles -- brain-melting record heat wave continues! -- we can think of nothing better to do than head to the concrete confines of a nearby theme park where we'll be shoulder to shoulder with...
We remember it well, 1992, or at least the part where we did something we'd never done before and haven't done since: we walked out of a movie. Appearing at the box office ghostly white and trembling, we merely stuck...
Oh sure, blame the marketing guy. These Coppertoned specimens from "American Gladiators" (that would be Titan and Wolf) are strong-arming NBC's CMO John Miller, but they're just joshing around. This photo-op, held yesterday in New York, came shortly before the...
Anxiously awaiting spoilers! Big dies! Big doesn't die! Big and Carrie finally tie the knot! Carrie gets left at the alter! Steve has an affair! Charlotte gets pregnant! Samantha perfects the heartless fine art of being a class-A maneater! Please,...
