white people like plays

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/43-plays/

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

guess the film

Joshua tagged me with this. Who wants to play? Look up 15 of your favorite films on IMDb and take a quote from each. List them below. When someone guesses the quote correctly, cross it off the list. (I'm not sure I know how to cross off, but I'll change the color or something. red have been guessed correctly. they are now all red. ) 1 Pier Angeli, 1971 or '72, also pills. Donald "Red" Barry, shot himself in 1980. Charles Boyer, 1978, pills again. Charles Butterworth, 1946, I think. In a car. Supposedly, it was an accident, but, you know, he was distraught. Dorothy Dandridge, pills, 1965. Albert Dekker, 1968. He hung himself. He wrote his suicide note in lipstick on his stomach. William Inge, carbon monoxide, 1973. Carole Landis, pills again. I forget when. George Reeves, "Superman" on TV, shot himself. Jean Seberg, pills, of course, 1979. Everett Sloane - he was good - pills. Margaret Sullivan, pills. Lupe Velez, a lot of pills. Gig Young, he shot himself and his wife in 1978. There are tons more. 2 What if I send it in and they don't like it? What if they say I'm no good? What if they say "Get out of here, kid. You got no future."? I mean, I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection. Jesus, I'm starting to sound like my old man! 3 I'd be unworthy of the high trust that's been placed in me if I didn't do everything in my power to keep our beloved Freedonia in peace with the world. I'd be only too happy to meet with Ambassador Trentino, and offer him on behalf of my country the right hand of good fellowship. And I feel sure he will accept this gesture in the spirit of which it is offered. But suppose he doesn't. A fine thing that'll be. I hold out my hand and he refuses to accept. That'll add a lot to my prestige, won't it? Me, the head of a country, snubbed by a forgein ambassador. Who does he think he is, that he can come here, and make a sap of me in front of all my people? Think of it - I hold out my hand and that hyena refuses to accept. Why, the cheap ball-pushing swine, he'll never get away with it I tell you, he'll never get away with it. 4 We don't have none of this stuff in the boy's room! Wait a minute! We don't got none of this... we don't got doors on the stalls in the boy's room, we don't have, what is this? What's this? We don't have a candy machine in the boy's room! 5 What's the Czech for "Do you love him"? 6 --Which of these two letters comes first, this one or this one? --The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir? --Damn, you're good. I was trying to trick you. 7 "My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell." Well, you have absolutely no interest in saving yourself. 8 --Trains are really cool. --They are. --So are horses. --What? -- I was just thinking that. --Give me the joint, man. 9 --Okay, let's handle this thing logically. What exactly have you sworn? --I have sworn with my life's blood, none shall pass this way without *my* permission! --Well... May we have your permission? --Well I, uh... I... that is, uh... hm... Yes? 10 All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? 11 I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end. 12 Don't underestimate the mentally ill. We know how to count. 13 Ladies and gentlemen, you are such a wonderful crowd, we'd like to play a little tune for you. It's one of my personal favorites and I'd like to dedicate it to a young man who doesn't think he's seen anything good today - Cameron Frye, this one's for you. 14 --Mr. Murphy, what attracts you to the leisure industry? --In a word: pleasure. It's like, my pleasure in other people's leisure. 15 Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. I tag Marisa, Michael, Johnna, Tdawg, and anyone else who wants to do it.

monday

New York: Mon, Mar 10 at 7:00PM: Studio 42 presents a reading of Adam Szymkowicz's DEFLOWERING WALDO. A wine and cheese reception follows. At Playwrights Horizons Rehearsal Studio, 416 W. 42nd St., 5th floor. $5. http://stu42.com/ Los Angeles: Monday March 10 5PM - HERBIE, POET OF THE WILD WEST (Adam Szymkowicz), curated by Jeffrey Emerson at Theatre of Note 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 323.856.8611 http://www.myspace.com/notewood

what to do

Don Hall's call to action

http://donhall.blogspot.com/2008/03/off-loop-freedom-charter.html

How to start a theater company

An article about a young theater company I was recently introduced to.

http://westend.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23932

plug for blue coyote

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to Blue Coyote Theater Group's
AFTERGLOW PARTY

Sunday, March 2nd, 7pm

@Access Theater
380 Broadway, 4th Floor
(Broadway and White St.)

Join us on the Happy Endings set to celebrate our latest hit and our upcoming new work!

Hors d'ouvres by celebrated chef Ed Cotton and pastry chef Mina Pizarro of Veritas, prepared by the staff
Open bar
Live entertainment
prizes and raffles

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Top shelf hooch and delicious food and surprise performances and tons of your friends dancing on stripper cubes and backstage antics and spinning lights and giveaways and you KNOW it always ends with someone kissin' on someone and sheepish phone calls the next day... All This Action for $25.00 are you KIDDING ME?!!

Guide to Hiring Women, 1943

http://home.tiac.net/~cri_d/cri/2000/women1943.html

snopes says it's real

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/hiringwomen.asp

nice post from Joshua on character and writing and emotional content

http://writerjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/?p=665

I read the Golden Compass and the two books that follow and I have to say I was blown away. I've been struggling with trying to figure out how to write about god in a non-annoying way while not really knowing what I actually think about god including whether or not he exists. And Pullman just does it. He manages to write about the Christian god many of us know while at the same time taking us into a different world and letting different facets of spirituality and our selves and the good and bad things surrounding religion while telling a highly engaging adventure story.

The greatest thing about it however, is the love story that really only develops in the last book. I don't want to say too much about it because I don't want to give it away and I'm hoping you'll read it. As a lover of love stories, I have to say, this is one of the best I've seen and the way he connects god and love and sin at the end is simply elegant. But these are books that broke my heart and I highly recommend them.

coming soon

March 10 A reading in LA of Herbie A reading in NYC of Waldo

March 26-29 F4F at a college in Michigan

April 17-27 F4F at a college in ND

April 18-27 Waldo in a theater in Wisconsin

updates

I discovered saturday I am very allergic to aspirin which means I am also probably allergic to all these things. If you recall the doctor already told me I'm allergic to all these things: clams, corn, soybeans, wheat, peanuts, walnuts, scallops, shrimp, codfish, eggwhites, and milk. I already knew I was allergic to chicken and turkey. So what am I eating? good question. I'll have to go back to the allergist soon and it also might be helpful to find a dietician. I finished the first act of my tv spec and hope to finish it this weekend.

Travis in TX on Regional Theatre

http://frawst.blogspot.com/2008/02/meanwhile-to-left-of-revolution.html

then, now, and Brooke Berman

She continued: "You used to be able to work a 20-hour week, pay the
rent on your tiny studio, and still write your plays. That's no longer
possible."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/garden/21berman.html?_r=2&ref=theater&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

how to be a lady

http://flailinggirl.blogspot.com/2008/02/lady-luck.html