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Feb 22
7 min

SATIN DOLLS – OUR FIRST SHORT FILM

In 1983, Anita in her senior year at Columbia College studying film making had the opportunity to produce and direct a documentary or a f...

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Nov 3, 2020
3 min

MY FIRST ACTING CLASS-November 2020

It didn’t take long for me to find an acting class in Hollywood; it would the first acting class in my life. A friend of ours was an acto...

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Oct 6, 2020
4 min

Marie and Bruce at the Odyssey Theatre-October 2020

Wallace (Wally) Shawn, an actor/playwright, wrote the play Marie and Bruce. Wally Shawn is a character actor who played Diane Keaton’s ex...

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Sep 10, 2020
2 min

Gate 11 and hostages in the park – September 2020

Gate 11 opened at the Burbank Theatre Guild in 1985. This was its world premiere. The play is best described as a hostage/hijacker drama ...

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Jul 18, 2020
4 min

SYD FIELD AND THE SHERWOOD OAKS EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE – PART 1 JULY 2020

Syd Field was an early writing mentor of mine. Syd wrote the ever-popular book Screenplay. When it was published in 1979, it was the defi...

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Jul 8, 2020
3 min

WHEN YOUR PHONE RINGS IN HOLLYWOOD-PART 2 – JULY 2020

If you haven’t read PART 1 of this blog, please do so now. I don’t know for sure how I got the call from Scott at the Tonight Show with J...

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Jul 7, 2020
3 min

WHEN YOUR PHONE RINGS IN HOLLYWOOD PART 1 – JULY 2020

If you are an actor in Hollywood, most likely you are waiting for your phone to ring. When it does ring, it could be your agent, manager,...

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Oct 18, 2019
3 min

HERE'S ONE FROM THE HEART

In 1982, I got my first Hollywood agent. He wasn't a top tier agent, far from it, but he was someone who could get me work. His office wa...

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Aug 1, 2019
1 min

Hollywood tales

In this blog, I will post stories about my time in Hollywood as an actor and screenwriter. I think you will find them enjoyable and inter...

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