Back to One part One

When I was at SUNY Purchase, I remember going to the theater on campus to watch a Jerome Robbins review. He was in the audience with Baryshnikov. There was electricity in the air. I remember leaving the theater and going to the dance building , entering a studio and meditating there afterward. "Those were the Good Old Days." As the devil from the musical Damn Yankees would say.


 May I share the following quote with you?  It is from Pat Riley's book "The Winner Within A Life Plan For Team Players":

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."  John Barrymore.

One of my all time favorite films is Twentieth Century. Barrymore and Carole Lombard were brilliant.

Mr. Sam Shepard sat in the audience for the writer's rehearsal of his new play Heartless. One can see a glimpse of the East Village performance art of the 1960s of this playwright's foundation. Thank goodness. The collaborators really do an awesome job with the staging, lighting, costumes, and come to think of it, a microphone-less production? Theater, raw and rare made by the people for the people.



Mabel , the role that Lois Smith plays is a character to be treasured, and this type of character I hope we will see more of throughout the acting mediums of theater and film. Of course , none will ever compare to Mr. Shepard's creation of rock your socks straight shootin' easy on the toppings writing style. Years from now, it will be quite a recollection to be able to say :  I was there at the Signature Theater in New York City, and howled with the audience watching with awe when Lois Smith originated the archtypal role in Heartless. One of the women I saw the show with called this character "Patrician".


Great theater , like great comedy is when everything is fair game. The writer says some interesting things about Los Angeles culture. Poetically he weaves a movement of family drama . Go see it.
Enjoy the film noir moments .  Shine the mirror ever so clearly as Hamlet would agree.

I rented the film  A Letter to Three Wives to honor the passing of Celeste Holm. May this screen and stage actress rest in peace.  She did the voiceover for the antagonist character for this award winning film. .  Wow! The classics rock.  And there was a great actress in this film that went on to play a supporting role to Marilyn Monroe in another favorite film of mine The Misfits.


And now, "Everybody back to one."