CoCo showed up bearing gifts last night. Not only did she bring my favorite vodka to the party, she also brought amazing news. Yup. Conventioneers won at the Independent Spirit Awards last night. Read an…
Interesting
Why is it, that when I have a desire to sleep I stay up all night, and when I need to stay awake (just for another 90 minutes, even), I am suddenly exhausted? Weird. Oh,…
How to Make Me Happy for Three Bucks
Buy me something way geeky, way useful, and way cheap. You’ll have my heart forever. See, people love their iPods. They even dress like them for Halloween. So cool. Well, I got my first iPod…
Two Days of Driving
Well, actually it’s two days of guest-speaking, but there’s also the driving to get there. That’s from mi casa to Moorpark College. It’s way far. Way. But it’s not the far I dislike. It’s the…
Bitter Actor Syndrome, Be Gone!
You quoted my letter in last week’s column, but what is your point? My “managers” will tell you I have the most positive attitude of all their clients. I spend 30-36 hours a week on…
Taking the Meeting
Somewhere along the actor’s journey (between the days of “submitting and hoping for a preread” and reaching “offer only” status), actors will do something called “taking the meeting” in order to get cast. This is…
My Wish for You
Is that you will, at some time in your life, know the joy that is coming up on a movie theatre and seeing the title of a film you helped create “up in lights.” Click…
Embracing Inefficiency
Before I really get into the meat of this post, let me begin by saying this: I am giving myself three gifts, as a part of composing this apologia.^1 I will take a long time…