Something new - PROJECT POSTS!
As most of you know, I work creating art to give me my health insurance, but the rest of my time is spent in developing possibilities for increased income & creative satisfaction. I thought I'd...
View ArticlePROJECT: The Portable Italian Mother (BOOK)
The Portable Italian Mother is a humor/gift book that I have been asked to write. I was recommended to an agent, June Clark of The Peter Rubie Literary Agency, who was looking to replace a writer on...
View ArticlePROJECT: IMDB Presence (INTERNET)
A very important place for me to maintain a professional presenceas an actor, screenwriter and director is on IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base). I have had a listing on there for a number of years now as...
View ArticleEVENT: "Mafia Wives, Inc." LIVES at KGB Bar in NYC on March 10th!
Isn't it exciting? Please come! I've been invited to read an excerpt from my new comic novel, Mafia Wives, Incorporated as part of the Trumpet Fiction reading series featured at www.ducts.org. Ducts is...
View ArticleLIFE: The Saga of My Bathroom Sink.
I have been waiting six years for my landlady to replace my bathroom sink. It was one of those almond colored jobs that was all scratched up and looked perpetually filthy no matter how much I scrubbed....
View ArticleLIFE: The Saga of the Bathroom Walls.
Okay, the sink is in. It looks great. But calls for an entire bathroom redo as the colors don't go with anything else in the room. The sink is sort of a fake mushroom colored granite thing and the...
View ArticlePROJECT Update: The "Mafia Wives, Inc." reading went really well!
I just got home from the KGB bar in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where I read 20 pages from my comic novel, Mafia Wives, Incorporated. It was lots of fun and the audience, mostly strangers except...
View ArticlePITY PARTY: Hmmmm ... I suppose there IS hope for me yet!
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View ArticlePROJECT Update: Acting career moving forward!
I attended at seminar on "How to Get An Agent" in Manhattan on Saturday that was most informative. (And bumped into my old V/O pal, Sheila Head, who looked great and is also revving up her legit career...
View ArticlePROJECT Update: The "Portable Italian Mother" book
This is frustrating but not un-doable. Okay, The Italian Mother book is stalled yet again (this whole book was supposed to be completed by last December - we are still negotiating the deal!) Now,...
View ArticlePROJECT Update: Mafia Wives, Inc.
Mafia Wives, Inc. is, as you may know from my recent literary reading in NYC, a hilarious story of what would happen if women had to run the Mafia. (They take over the MOb and re-organize Organized...
View ArticlePROJECT Update: Bud Abbott meets her Lou Costello!
The agent audition thing yesterday night went VERY well. I was so lucky cause the gal I was paired up with was really great. The scene was supposed to take place on a Brooklyn street, so I was a...
View ArticleMEMORY FART: I just remembered something profound that Sharon Stone once said.
When asked about what it was like to kiss young Leonardo Dicaprio in the 1995 movie, Desperado, Ms. Stone said,"It was about as sexy as kissing my arm."That's why I love Sharon. Her acting skills are...
View ArticlePROJECT Update: Get an ACTING AGENT!
Okay, so it only took me a week to get my Thank You notes written for the two agents I met this past week, but at least they won't get lost in the avalanche of thank you notes from the more...
View ArticlePROJECT: YOUR Project!
Hey, why not join me in making the projects dear (near?) to your heart public ... it does require a certain amount of committment and makes you responsible for taking actions towards doing what you...
View ArticleTRUE STORY: The "Meryl Streep" of Spitting.
One of my favorite acting gigs was for the TV show, F.E. D. S. - it was a short-lived Dick Wolf show that starred Dylan Thomas, John Slattery and, I think, Blair Brown. I was cast as The Widow Abruzzi...
View ArticleACTING UPDATE: The Poop on my "Rescue Me" Interview.
I may have pushed this whole "conversational" interview style to it's edge. I had another PAID audition seminar this week. (I have come to terms with this practice - as barbaric as it is and SO against...
View ArticleACTING UPDATE: The Good Oops.
So I was all psyched about my upcoming paid audition with Nadia Lubbe (this gal must have had a helluva time in high school) even if my scene was a little confusing. It's one of the really funny...
View ArticleSullivan's Last Call plays at the Harvard Film Archives!
I'm here in Cambridge for the first screening of Sullivan in their Independent's Week series - there was a little Q & A afterwards - which was much fun. I got to tell about our only blooper when...
View ArticleBless me friends for I have sinned.
It has been three months since my last posting, and I must admit, that I haven't posted because nothing that exciting has been happening lately. None of the paid audition things have produced any work...
View ArticleGit along little doggy.
I will be taking some time to commune with nature and friends in the tiny little resort town of Park City, Utah best known for hosting the Sundance Film Festival in early January. This time of year,...
View ArticleSunday in Park City
It's very pleasant, visiting my friend Jennifer, She has a home here in Park City and also another in NJ and both are decorated like something you would see in a magazine. Only better, since she is an...
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NEWS: I'm interviewed about my art!
I'm baaaack! Just when you thought it was safe to roam the internet, I decide to do a post. Well, I must admit, I have been very bummed out as nothing very exciting has happened with my acting career...
View ArticleMOVIES you MUST SEE: Films Directed by Women In Theaters NOW!
Academy Award-winning director, Jane Campion once said, "When journalists ask me “why do you make films about women”? I am so amazed. It’s like asking me “why do you speak English?”… We are women, we...
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CALLING ALL "Artists & Friends for Humanity"!!
A month or so ago I was inspired by Oprah’s Big Give and was looking for a way to give back to my community that utilized my artistic skills. On Oprah's TV show, Nate Berkus has worked his magic...
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