RIVERS RUNNING BACKWARDS
The
timely and jarring
juxtaposition of the
Hollywood Strike(s)
and Christopher
Nolan's to-date
masterpiece,
Oppenheimer, is a
painfully recurring
echo for historical
perspective.
SOME OF THESE DAYS
Some of these days, You'll miss your honey,
Some of these days, You'll feel so lonely,
And when you leave me, I know you'll grieve me.
EURYDICE DESCENDING
How could you possibly love someone else's life more than your own?
The open heart of your own life lying in someone else's hands,
helpless, beating, unafraid.
SILVERWIND
Once a girl I knew, all alone and unprepared.
Everyone she knew, running scared.
Then she found him or maybe he found her.
THE CANDLE IS LIT
What film artists have known since the 1960's... he was and remains singular among the handful of unique filmmakers in the 20th century.
FROM TIME TO TIME
Some insist that we must merge human intelligence with
so-called "artificial intelligence" (as if there's any difference)
to avoid becoming irrelevant. They're wrong.
SILVER AND GOLD
There, that ought to do it. Now wave goodbye to anguished 2022 and smile hopefully at 2023, asking… What's New?.
IN LIEU OF A STORY
There is no moral, point or purpose to this non-story.
It's an impression, a representation of human life
on this tiny rock.
TIME FLIES AS TIME FLOWS
I know that some readers are disturbed by my repetitive gloomy portrayals of the longevity of this planet as we now know it. One wrote to me and said...
MEDEA
The stunning climax to her story has stuck in the craw of Western society, particularly Judaic-Christian society for over 2500 years.
MARI BEN BARI
Of all the
people who passed
through her
life,there were two
who brought her the
most joy and damage.
A man and a woman.
IF HOLLYWOOD IS All JEWISH
THEN MY MOTHER IS THE VIRGIN MARY
There
were no Jews in the
ancient biblical
times. If there was
a Jesus of Nazareth,
he was not a
Jew… he was a
Semite, a
Middle-Easterner,
and a man of color,
not a White
Christian evangelist.
A BRIEF TOAST FOR THIS NEW YEAR'S EVE
Timendi Causa Est Nescire
the cause of fear is ignorance
MIRROR
Paul Richter is a quiet man, a loner with few friends. Over a period of time,
he engages a casual friendship in a bar with Alec Zorn, the complete
opposite of Paul.
THE LAST OF MY FAERIES
If
you don't know
what a Faerie is,
you're part of
half of the current
population of 8
billion humanoids. 8
Billion! What an
exhausting thought
that is!.
MINE AND... YOURS
I don't believe the community, an individual, or a Japanese billionaire has the right to screw with a work of art that he, she or it did not create.
WHERE FEAR STILL HOLDS LEASE
Bill Rodman was a prize-winning journalist and newspaperman. He spent most of his career writing about people making a futile mess of their lives.
DANCING AGAIN IN THE DARK
In these
implosive times,
imaged by the
white-suited lump of
a man with white
shoes, strolling
along the Atlantic
City boardwalk,
picking your pockets.
MANGO NIGHTS AND RAINY DAYS
No film
before or since
defined the nucleus
of cinema, the art
form of the 20th
century, as this
masterpiece did.
CASTLE KEEP... REVISED
What was
this all about, over
40 years ago, when
there were few
personal
computers, no
internet, no social
media, no mobile
phones.
APROPOS...
Think of the
silence in the
loving eyes looking
at you in which you
can see yourself...
and all the colors
of the sea.
THE AGELESS AGE OF COHN
The time we
live in has a
malignant
fundamental thread,
a baseboard that
extends to the
founding of America.
CRUSHED GARLIC
According to Sir David Attenborough, garlic is the
most important creature in Earth-bound evolution.
BRAVE NEW WORLD... HE SAYS
With eyes closed and a bloody smirk on his lips.
Your penchant for triviality is showing.
BITS&PIECES REDUX
Have you
noticed the number
of people who get
upset, get depressed
about a movie they
haven't seen?.
BOLEROESQUE
I offer you a historic note to the fact that the theatre has always been alive
and well. It was
a difficult piece to
write and even more
difficult to
perform. But byjees,
it worked.
A CHILD OF THE FIRST PEOPLE
Samye
Sampsel Burrus is an
internationally
recognized artist.
She was an
award-winning
painter, sculptor,
muralist, designer
and an illustrator
and author of many
children's
books. Above all,
she was a Cherokee
woman and a citizen
of the Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma.
LIGHTING THE CANDLE
As each year goes by, more and more people realize what film artists
have known since the 1960's... he was and remains singular among
the handful of unique filmmakers in the 20th century.
A BRIEF ANORECTIC HOMILY ON TIME
Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing?
The answers merge like sperm into ovum and give birth to
the pregnant question of Why?.
FOUR VIRGINS AND A SPOON
Some
things are better
left undone, better
left unsaid, better
left unknown, better
left alone. Pithless
naysayings that keep
the fear pot
bubbling. The latter
one precipitates an
endless stream of
pungent doeth
nots.
LIFE AMONG THE SPECIES
A
persistent tribute
to and an icon for
superstition and
fear, a stupidly
designed structure
with an ugly
exterior that denied
Greek and Roman
engineering and
beauty… the
angry-god cathedral,
Notre Dame, burned
down.
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
Suppose
you stop eating
anything for a few
weeks or so. You'll
end up unsurpisingly
thin, very thin, and
probably dead. For
proof just visit a
refugee camp in
Yemen or parts of
Africa.
ANONYMOUS DAYS
The one
gut-driving, mind
massaging, thought
enhancing,
evolutionary
perpetrating
influence has been
the writings of
Shakespeare. The
words are in every
head, every
language, every
mathematical
thought. | February
2019
BODY AND SOUL REDUX
At 22, she
was a woman, not a
teeny bopper, not a
hip-hopper., not a
"who am I?
girl-gone-wild",
not a single girl
who can't wait
to grow up and yet
can't disrobe
from her
over-the-head
hand-clapping
teeny-tweeny
costume.
3:10 TO YUMA
I'm sitting
on a veranda on The
Peak in Hong Kong
overlooking the
harbor late in the
afternoon, musing
that image. The
shimmering blue and
glimmering gold of
the waters are
fading into the
smiling grey and
black of evening.
CIGARILLO
Today's
"awakening" is only
beginning to scratch
the surface as it
reveals the layers
of human patriarchal
history. It reveals
men smothering
women, other men,
other species,
including we addicts.
THE DESERT ROSE
A powerful,
confrontational
eye-to-eye challenge
to both the actor
and the director.
Screw with his
dialogue, screw with
his vision of the
staging, and the
production is
screwed!
AS TIME BRIEFLY GOES BY
The perspective of history is a guide-thread in the web of human knowledge.
It is the memory in that perspective that defines who we are, where we are,
and what it is we are doing.
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
No scientist
to date has ever
proved that the
species Actorus
Necessarus exists or
has ever existed.
There is no fossil
record and Charles
Darwin blatantly
ignored the rumor
and myth of this
lost mammalian link.
AFTER MIDNIGHT
How
could you possibly
love someone else's
life more than your
own? The open heart
of your own life
lying in someone
else's hands,
helpless, beating,
unafraid. How is
that possible?
WINTER HEAT
In the
Ancient World, that
time before
Judeo-Christian
morality and the
steam engine, Art
was not usually
segregated from the
days and nights of
journeying through
life.
SCENE 5
I cannot
remember one day of
my life in which I
did not interact
with an animal,
usually a pet. A
pet, pet… what
a word, what a
gratuitous,
self-hubris-licking
word.
BILLIE HOLIDAY'S MAGIC
I saw her
twice during my
lifetime (and hers)
live! Once at the
old Metropole in
Manhattan's jazz
district, and at the
CBS television
studios in New York,
one Sunday
afternoon, during a
live broadcast.
PnP
In these
weinsteinian days of
sexual harassment
and
inappropriateness,
prostitution (pay to
play) is a banner
that is spreading
over more than sex
industry workers.
ME TOO
There
isn't a male on
this planet who
hasn't stood
beneath the banner
of Patriarchy, who
hasn't harassed
or bullied or
oppressed a woman
casually or
intentionally.
ALL THE KING'S MEN
If they don't deliver, give me the hammer and I'll do it.
Nail em up! Nail em up! Nail em up! Nail em up!
SOUNDS THAT BECKON
For the life of me, I cannot throw away a book, no matter how insipid,
or useless, or decrepit.
TWO FOR THE ROAD
Recently I
turned away to the
ingratiating slouch
of the tube through
which I experienced
"Star Trek
Discovery" and
"The Vietnam
War".
¡OLÉ!
I fell in
love with Flamenco,
I fell in love with
Lorca, I eventually
came to understand
what Spaniards
revered in the
ancient ritual of
corrida de toros.
FAKES AND FORGERIES
The driving
motive is
outsourcing, shadow
contracting,
tempered with
compulsive
consumption and no
small amount of
greed.
FIFTEEN MINUTES BACKSTAGE
This
practice was so
prevalent, it became
(as it usually does
backstage) a
superstition. Never
start on time! To
this day, there are
managers who swear
by it.
2 PICKLES AND 20 PIECES OF GARLIC
Someone once said, "everything is 90% about sex and 10% about nothing
else." Fair enough... better than if that were reversed.
SLEEPING ALONE
I love to
fall asleep with
someone. I love to
wake in the morning
with someone. But,
now, how long can I
sleep with someone?
WINDTALKING
We're
inundated with
children who cannot
write with their
prehensile thumbs
and who mumble-speak
through their numbed
noses.
BITS&PIECES: LALA IN LA LA LAND
Not having the vision to see a pig fly, a cat's ninth life, a unicorn's breath, an
omni-gendered human being, and a trans-human.
AS THE WHEEL TURNS AND TURNS
A
provocative,
controversial,
insider's look
into the Hollywood
"circus",
the American
political system,
civil rights and the
abuses of law
enforcement.
AWAKE WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS
In the new
tv series,
Westworld, his
portrayal of a lead
character offers a
perception of a
Master Actor at work
regardless of the
circumstances.
WORDS FOR WORDS
He had a
wonderful sense of
humor and a zest for
life, the cultures
of the world
and… baseball!
A passionata passion
for baseball.
WRITER
Since I can
remember, even
before I knew how to
write, I wanted to
be a writer
BITS & PIECES
Marrying the Merrisome Jane Eyre, About Horses and A Bridge in Paris.
HILLARY IN THE MOVIES
In 1964 the idea of a Woman President
was as threatening as the idea of a woman's vote.
TOUJOURS L'AMOUR
A prose(d) poem or a poesied story.
SPACE
Why don't they call us? If you were they, would you?
DAISY, DAISY
Give me your answer do! I'm half crazy All for the Love of You.
C(Q)UE THE BORGIAS
The harvest
from the 1500-years
Christian usurption
of the glory and
putrefaction of the
Roman Empire.
ON THE BEACH
There is still time brother!
ANDREA DWORKIN
She was and
remains one of the
most important
women, one of the
most important
voices in the
twentieth century.
WISHING YOU
Fundamentalism
derived from and
integral to all
religions, is the
most virulent blank-
stare terror of the
plague.
THE BLACKLIST
The
Blacklist really
never ended. It
changed Hollywood
(and other creative
areas) forever. It
unleashed an
inherent strain of
paranoia, xenophobia
and bigotry
.
REMEMBERING IRIS CHANG
She was a diligent and perceptive historian who was also a gifted writer.
HIM ON STAGE
I don't
want just a voice I
want Him on stage
not on the screen,
on stage in real
time. |
November
CONVERSATIONS SELDOM OVERHEARD - "ALIEN ILLICIT"
In a loft,
in San Francisco,
above the fog.
Listen, in exactly
three minutes the
telephone is going
to ring. That's
the time to finish
our little test.
You answer it.
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING
The
prevailing art-form
of the 20th century
is expanding like
the universe into an
amorphous
stew.
PEBBLES AND POTATOES
We're
inundated with
children who cannot
write with their
prehensile thumbs
and mumble through
their numbed
noses.
THE LION IN WINTER
At least 90%
of the humans on
this planet have
never seen or
touched a
painting.
MR. KANE & MR. WELLES
Seventy-four
years ago, Orson
Welles created
'Citizen
Kane' and it
remains the zenith,
the apex of
filmmaking
SECOND REUNION
The Jew In The Box.
SCENE FROM AMERICAN SKYPER
Based on a true story. There are many truths in true stories.
MANIC DEPRESSIVE
It was boring. It was flaccid. It was the Academy Awards.
REMEMBRANCE
He saw it all, heard it all. He had seen it all and heard it all before.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CATS PART 3
An ongoing
history project
sponsored by the
Felines Forever
Foundation. You can
contribute your
facts, opinions,
fears and
misinformation.
Please do not send
us photos, fur,
stuffed animals or
your pets.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT PART 1
Possession
is 9/10ths of the
law and 10/10ths of
possession. Notice
of copyright has
been found in the
earliest writings
including the hands
in ancient cave
paintings.
HEAVEN
Ladies and
Gentlemen and
adolescents of all
ages everywhere,
good wishes for the
coming year.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CATS PART 3
An ongoing
history project
sponsored by the
Felines Forever
Foundation. You can
contribute your
facts, opinions,
fears and
misinformation.
Please do not send
us photos, fur,
stuffed animals or
your pets.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT PART 1
Possession
is 9/10ths of the
law and 10/10ths of
possession. Notice
of copyright has
been found in the
earliest writings
including the hands
in ancient cave
paintings.
ON COPYRIGHT AND CATS
I don't know what is happening. And frankly, I don't care.
WHAT'S NEW?
Google, a money-printing, identity-shifting video game.
TORCH SONG
The burning heart - loneliness from love lost.
NAKED TIZZY - KRINSKI'S "NUDITY"
Explicitly about sex and love but more of a mind's journey through life. |
DARWIN MISSED HOLLYWOOD
What Michael Cimino wrought in 1980 is de rigueur today.
$12 MILLION, $46 MILLION, SOLD!
I find it difficult to write about temporal things that don't matter.
AND IN THE BEGINNING
Brothers and Sisters here is my homily for today.
SANTAYANA AND STAR TREK
Welcoming the future. Respecting the past.
HOLLYWOOD POLITIQUE
The American
film industry,
especially
Hollywood, is a
montage of
"Arts&Politics"
and
"Politics&Arts".
It all began with
the flood of
immigration toward
the end of the 19th
century.
|
HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST SHAME: THE BLACKLIST
About a man
who refused to
genuflect to the
authorities who
persecuted and
prosecuted him.
|
WAR FILMS AND NOVEMBER 22
What will we
see through the
distant window when
America's most
arrogantly insane
war fades.
MILLIONAIRES AND HOOKERS
Pay-for-sex
is almost as old as
human history. As
someone once said,
everything is 90%
about sex and 10%
about nothing
else.
HONG KONG NIGHTS AT 4:30 PM
Tricky
little title
isn't it? Comes
from a remorseful
Mekong
Whiskey-Beaujolais
hangover driven
ditty written in a
sweat-dripping room
on The Peak.
JOHN GARFIELD AND HAZEL BROOKS
John
Garfield was a movie
star in the
1940's and
50's, a
counterpoint to
Humphrey Bogart, a
poster-man for the
joyous angst, the
bewildering urban
stew of New York and
its steaming
boroughs.
OF VIVALDI AND WOMEN
What do you
know about
self-possessed
loneliness?
Bone-aching, silent,
time standing-still
loneliness. An
aloneness that the
titillation of
television or drugs
or music, even
suicide holds out no
hands of
hope.
THE JEW IN THE BOX
He sat
propped up against
the back wall, one
of his legs twisted
away from him like a
puppet's limb.
His reddish and blue
face was a mask
smoothed and
scrambled by the
plastic bag over his
head.
BLUE EYES AT NIGHT
Two
questions, seemingly
unrelated and then
again, not. What If
This Is All There
Is? and Whatever
Happened To Martin
Brest?
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS BUT ONE
This is a
story that was told
to me by a college
chum of mine who
later became an
intelligence
operative for the
American government.
|
ACTOR? LET'S SEE YOUR LICENSE
For our own
quality assurance,
we try to license
everything that is
important to us,
except giving birth
to and raising
children, of course.
|
FIVE REASONS WHY CINEMA IS DYING
Well
it's not really
dying. Rather, the
prevailing art-form
of the 20th century
is expanding like
the universe into an
amorphous
stew.
SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED
Something
momentous has
happened. It should
have been shouted in
large black type
across the front
page of the New York
Times and other news
media around the
world. It
wasn't.
THE STRANGER
Perspectives: WRITINGS - Monologues | The Stranger | There is a sadness that floats on the sea in the afternoon. It has always seemed that way to me.
CONVERSATIONS SELDOM OVERHEARD - THE ACTOR
Perspectives: Writings - Dialogues | Conversations Seldom Overheard - The
Actor | A director and his lead actor in the wings just before curtain rise.
MEMORIAL DAY - A TIME TO LOVE, A TIME TO HATE-REDUX
The
challenge of True
Believers, of
Fundamentalism, all
Fundamentalism,
Christian, Jewish,
Islamic is its
mindless, degrading
nostalgia.
A FABLE FROM THE 'WAR ON WOMEN'
Perspectives:
Writings - Dialogues
| On a lazy, warm,
cloudy, summer's
afternon a boy and a
girl play
hide-and-seek.
THE DANCER INTO POET
Selena
Zachai | Lorca took
everything into his
mouth and his nose
and his eyes and his
tongue. He is the
most sensual poet of
the 20th century. If
he were alive I
would smash my way
to lie with him to
hear him breathe and
sing
SEA FIRE
From The Lyriana Nocturnes
CONVERSATIONS SELDOM OVERHEARD
Perspectives: Writings - Dialogues | Salvation
THE APPARENT EUGENE O'NEILL
The Apparent Eugene O'Neill | Only in America.
LIMA PERU NOT OHIO
In my
arrogant Manhattan
innocence, I had
made a naive mistake
and so did my
editor. I went to
Lima in April, on a
Friday, Good Friday,
which provided a
challenging
scenario.
YO-YO MA AND VIVALDI
I have seen
and heard the
magnificent Yo-Yo Ma
play Vivaldi live at
Carnegie Hall. And
now I hear him again
as I sit spinning on
the cd, drinking in
the laser light.
What he and Vivaldi
accomplish is the
carrying of music as
close to the edge of
merged media
experience without
betraying its
purity.
CONVERSATIONS SELDOM OVERHEARD
Perspectives: Writings - Dialogues | Shadowtalk
TRIPTYCH: "THE 99%"
Perspectives: Writings - Glyphs | Triptych: The 99%
FADE TO WHITE
I point you to David Mackenzie's Perfect Sense,
a beautifully
crafted but
seriously disturbing
film about losing
the arts of life. It
fades to white
before it fades to
black..
ARTEM SECUNDUM SUUM CUIQUE
There is no
obscenity in the
arts. There is only
a perspective that
deems and labels out
of ignorance, fear,
politics, financial
gain, and severe
self-displeasure.
Obscenity is in the
mind of the
beholder.
SINGERS OF SONGS
A continuous
dimension I travel
through is music. It
is the balance to my
visual world and a
purveyor of intimate
and relentless
privacy. In that
dimension, of all
the singers I have
ever heard, seen,
enjoyed, opera,
theatre, jazz, pop,
only two linger and
hover above all the
other voices. Both
are American.
|
THE Q FACTOR
George
Santayana and others
aphoristically
proclaimed that to
ignore history is to
be doomed to repeat
it. True? Perhaps,
with this caveat:
the human species is
a collective of
behavior, habitual,
ritual, repetitive
behavior, not doomed
to repeat its
history, rather
self-programmed to
recycle itself and
its history.
UP THE CARRIAGE TRADE !- REDUX
I'll
take the lower class
audiences, they make
a playwright's
writing-agony worth
agonizing over, they
make an actor's
performance worth
its salt and they
don't give a
damn about directors
and dramaturgs and
all the other
frou-frou
functionaries who
get in between them
and the live bodies
on stage. On with
the show! And
I'll take the
upper class
audiences too, of
course.
ORSON WELLES
Seventy
years ago, Orson
Welles created
Citizen Kane and it
remains the zenith,
the apex of
filmmaking. It
completed the
migration of theatre
into cinema. No film
before or since
defined the nucleus
of cinema, the art
form of the 20th
century, as this
seminal 1941
masterpiece did.
THE STORY OF BLUE
Alan Blue
didn't die last
week. He probably
will, soon. He
isn't old and he
isn't young. He
has been a wayfarer
through his life,
one who never
changed. He was an
errand boy, a clerk,
a waiter, an actor,
not a husband nor a
father or a
relative.
THE ACADEMY AWARDS
To many
people, worldwide,
the American Academy
Awards is the most
important and
prestigious event of
its kind. Important?
No question an
Academy Award is
worth a small
fortune, before and
after taxes.
Prestigious? Define
prestigious.
THE LOSS OF SILENCE/EAT AND BE HAPPY
This, then,
is the holiday
season that closes
the first decade of
the 21st century. It
is also the 100th
anniversary of one
of the most glorious
years in Western
history, 1910, a
year of exciting
promise,
breathtaking art,
panoramic
smiles. is not
like that.
|
VISAGE
I live in an
ugly country, not
the latent,
panoramic beauty of
America's
countryside, rather
it's cities and
towns. Unlike many
places in Europe or
Asia, American
cities, for the most
part, have no
center, no town
plaza or square.
FIRST THINGS LAST
The reason I
collect these works
of art and non-art
is because they are
part of my time
continuum. They
exist with me in the
present, spread out
in all space/time
directions, and they
are my
friends.
THE QUIVERING MUSE OF CUISINE
Journeying
into a cuisine is an
addiction, seldom a
curse, mostly a
delight. I've
had as many
addictions as
you've had,
probably
more.
THE PASSING OF A LIFE
Earlier
this year, a friend
and colleague,
Julius Krinski died
at 81, in Jomtien,
Thailand. A
Hungarian/Australian
expatriate, he was a
remarkable man - an
author, a Bon
Vivant, and a
world-class lover.
With a poignant
sadness, I remember
an interview with
him in 2005.
VIEWINGS AND AN ACTOR'S LAMENT
I decided
not to avoid the
timely viewings of
as many of this
year's Oscar
nominees that I
could take. I took
the five leading
contenders: The Hurt
Locker, District 9,
Inglourious
Basterds, Avatar and
Crazy Heart. The
first four can be
categorized in a
simple phrase: they
are video
games.
THE A****R
Time
to turn to The
Animating Life
Giver. Time to
create a new actor,
a shape-shifting
anthropamorphoid
with no baggage, who
doesn't have to
pee no matter how
long a rehearsal
lasts. |
February
DEATHWATCH REVISITED
As I prepare
to plunge back into
the real-time of
theatre, I'm
drawn to an acting
experience which
left me with an
immutable rock to
stand on. At its
core, an
understanding, a
truth that is as
clear today as when
I first perceived
it. |
IN SEARCH OF HEAVEN'S GATE
It is the
worst film ever made
and released. Worse
than any of the
spewings of Quentin
("the only way
to cut a film is
with a bread
knife")
Tarantino, or Martin
("how do you
tell a story?")
Scorcese, or Steven
("isn't
directing just like
producing?")
A TRADITION OF ONE
I wrote
the following
column, some years
ago, as an ode to
young dreams and
happy times and in
small part to
capture the image of
the young and happy
Niko and I offer it
again in his
memory.
AROUND MIDNIGHT WITH MANFREDO FEST
Midnight
was the time when I
slid into a
deliciously dark,
smokey jazz club in
Chicago and was
bewitched by a blend
of music I
hadn't heard
before.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
They babble.
Incessantly. Text
messages and emails
and voices into
little mobiles stuck
in their ears and
blogs and twitters
and facebooks and
youtubes and
newscasts and talk
shows and press
conferences.
ARS-EXITUS ACT PROBAT AND KURT WEILL
Special Issue
OWNING PICASSO
I have a friend who owns a Picasso... and not much else. Which one?
Don't ask,
don't tell. He
acquired this
painting via less
than legal and
righteous
means.
REALITY: STAGE IT AND CAGE IT
An
'avatar', a
virtual creature who
embodies the
above-described
reality of Reality
in the media... the
candidate for the
Vice-Presidency,
Sarah Palin.
LESTER COLE
He was a New
York playwright, a
prolific
screenwriter during
Hollywood's
golden years, a
leader and the most
vehement member of
the blacklisted
Hollywood Ten.
THE AGE OF ATLANTIS... REDUX
For those of
you who have written
to me from time to
time about the
'lady from
atlantis', i
have some sad news:
she died last week
at the age of 79.
The last time i saw
and spoke with her
earlier this year.
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JULIET AND HER ROMEO - REDUX
Earlier this year, I
met Tariz, again, in
Bangkok. Her company
was in Singapore and
she was up north at
a festival of
international
artists. They had
not returned to the
U.S. since the time
I saw them.
FAKES, FORGERIES AND THE MADNESSES OF CROWDS
Fakes, Forgeries and The Madnesses of Crowds
AN ESSENCE OF ACTING
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An Essence of Acting
INGMAR BERGMAN
The Music of Saraband
ACTORS AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Actots And Intelligent Design
VITA BREVIS, ARS LONGA
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Vita Brevis, Ars Longa and Anything Goes means a distinctive
View of the Arts.
CORRIDA OF ACTORS
Corrida of Actors
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TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE
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Cinderella and the Marquis de Sade, a delirious idea.
RIDLEY SCOTT
The Kingdom of Heaven with Ridley Scott
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