THE B SIDE
How do they get investors for something so poorly written? Or are they working to earn a Rotten Tomato Award? Or is it simply the chance to film as many […]
Acting – Performing
CORSETS & CATTLE CALLS
First time for me in a corset. Going for the 1880’s look. Now I know why they had Fainting Couches. It’s a whole different set of engineering, even if you’re […]
WALKING TALL
A can of corn goes flying straight across the convenience store, sailing above the aisles of food toward the front counter. Unarmed Kevin Sorbo, crouching behind an aisle, has thrown […]
SMILE DON’T SMILE
Frankly, getting the right headshot is a bitch. But, then, it can be fun. First there’s the journey. You spend years second guessing what the market needs. If you’re lucky, […]
NETWORK THAT FAME
Early Saturday morning, I’m off to UT campus to stand in a long line on the sidewalk outside Blanton Museum. Unusually chilly for an Austin April morning, some waiting in […]
STAND-UP
Down on 6th Street recently, Larry and I dropped in at Austin Ale House to catch the newest stand-up comedy show in Austin, Banter with Bogart. The location’s perfect, the food […]
CHANGES
The room was in hazy half-light and without detail. It had party energy. Not frenetic, but the kind where they play jazz. I’d just been talking to people on my […]
EXPENDABLE
Our car headlights shone out into a vast whiteness. Everything blanketed in a deep, white coated silence. The darkness of the night sky endless, punctuated only by continually falling giant […]
I CAN’T BREATHE
Late night rolling in after my evening A Working Group acting class and obligatory after class food run. Takes me a while to wind down, like I’m not a little […]
UNINTENTIONAL SMART ASSERY
Between smiling, laughing and stumbling on words, I am trying to learn an exercise in Meisner technique that Michael Costello is teaching us. Unfortunately I am endowed with excessive wordiness […]