Greeting from the Chili’s bar in LAX’s gate 42B. I’m writing this on my Blackberry as I watch the Mavericks try to even their series with the Warriors, so please forgive any typos. I will admit right away that I am pretty po’d due to my return flight being delayed nearly 4 hours and the …
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Hot off the presses
The following email just hit my inbox: “Congratulations on your acceptance into Level 4 of the Conservatory at The Second City Training Center!” What does it mean? 16 more weeks for Level 4 and 5, plus 4 weeks of graduate shows….and that I’m doing what I need to do.
Week 22: Make or break
Friday afternoon was the much anticipated Level 4/5 audition, and I almost missed it. I had a 12:30 flight and let’s just say due to some poor planning when I arrived I heard “FINAL BOARDING”. This is the second week in a row that I’ve arrived within 20 minutes of my flight’s departure. One of …
Review: Hot Fuzz
Review: “Hot Fuzz” Run time: 2:01 A “parody” or “satire” usually skewers the material on which it is based. The “Naked Gun” movies were extremely slapsticky and could be best described as “loose send ups” of police movies, where the case itself is hardly anything more than a reason to set Leslie Nielsen in glorious …
Week 21: Yin & Yang
They say everything has it’s opposite. What goes up, must come down. Well, the opposite of a great “Amigo Friends” Saturday night show, would be the Level 3 class show this afternoon. We had such a great, tight “Amigo” show Saturday with a near capacity audience and then today we just stunk it up for …
Week 20: Eggsellent
Wow. All I can say is wow. I never thought that the first show of “The Amigo Friends” (TAF) would be sold out and that they would be turning people away. If you would have asked me what my prediction would have been for attendance, I would have said a theater half full of our …
Week 19: Turnaround
Saturday morning I had a meeting with casting director Shari Rhodes in the morning, but a camera snafu caused me to have to reschedule for later this week. Shari has done a ton of casting for some big name movies and she’s very active in casting movies still today. Lucky for me I knew how to …