It was usually quiet when these gentlemen met to shake hands and to relive some moments of shared sacrifice. It was always the same – in amongst tress and seated around an oversized redwood picnic table. It began with twelve, and now the years had taken half of them away. Nevertheless, each Memorial Day remained…
Easy, there’s a person in here. With no inclination to stop, they pushed their way past. My mind’s eye: “MME” There’s a person in here. Who cares anyway? No need to look inside. Judgment is easy when derived by way of the superficial imprint of one’s human appearance. Calabasas where lifestyles are those most only…
(Be Yourself) The toughest assignment for an actor is to remain natural. As a young director, I was warned by mentors to try to avoid asking actors to be themselves. I was told that many actors haven’t a clue as to who or what they really are. In fact, I was told that many actors…
No one loved American comic heroes more than our earliest immigrants. Across the board, almost without exception, the neighborhoods of our new Americans fell in love with the bigger-than-life characters who single-handedly were there, on this good earth, for the sole purpose of protecting them. CIRCA 1930 At a time when little or nothing was…