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Tag Archives: Chicago
#TBT Hot rollers, Sheila? Really?
I used to roll my hair up with hot rollers. On a daily basis. I would heat them up while I was in the shower. It was this whole ritual, and I cannot believe I had the patience and the … Continue reading
#TBT You Make a Grown Girl Cry
Memory Lane Preamble When I first moved to Chicago, I got cast in a show the first week I was there. I had no professional head shots, but I wangled an audition anyway and booked it. I needed to get … Continue reading
Review: The Big Short (2015); d. Adam McKay
Yes, it’s as good as you’ve heard. And if you haven’t heard, trust me. It’s good. Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which he wrote after the phenom that was Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair … Continue reading
Wisconsin Idyll Involving Funny Hats and Rocket Launches
A Memory Lane Re-Post, Put Up Again In Honor of My Friend Phil’s Birthday. I Love You, Phil! Me, Kenny, Phil, and Ann Marie, in the photo booth at Lounge Ax in Chicago. On a “Pat night”. There are people … Continue reading
Real Sleep No Icebergs
Does not my heat astound you! And my light! All by myself I am a huge camellia Glowing and coming and going, flush on flush. — Sylvia Plath, “Fever 103°” Even the darkness was hot. The motorized fan on the … Continue reading
Bottles of Wine, the Sexy Parrot, and Elvis Presley
Half an hour before the reading of my script began I walked to the liquor store on the corner to pick up a couple of bottles of wine for the audience to enjoy. A liquored-up audience is more responsive. Everyone … Continue reading
A Post-Mortem
What happens when you work with good actors is that they are capable of going deep quick. I have experienced this with each reading of my script so far (I have been lucky), and to watch two actors – delve … Continue reading
Chicago
A city with a memory attached to every corner. I’ve lived in the New York area for longer than I lived in Chicago, but I am not as assaulted at every turn with memories. Perhaps if I moved from New … Continue reading
Chicago: Script Reading: The Hill You Die On
To anyone in the Chicago area, a public reading of my script, The Hill You Die On, is happening on November 14, with two brilliant actors, Amy Carle and Jeff Christian, my good friend and incredible director/actor Mitchell Fain directing. … Continue reading
Chicago People: Upcoming Script Reading
To anyone in the Chicago area, a public reading of my script, The Hill You Die On, is happening on November 14, with two brilliant actors, my good friend and incredible director/actor Mitchell directing. Please feel free to come if … Continue reading
