New Year's Resolution for 2008:

Continue to hang out with people who think

I'm fucking great.

(I had the same resolution for 2007 and it's workin' for me,

so I'm keepin' it.)

"There are cracks in everyone. That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

WHAT I LEARNED IN THE YEAR 2007

I am not Cate Blanchett.

This realization really smarts.

I am not a pirate or a nun.

I am especially not a pirate-nun.

I used to be Clara Bow, but I had to let that go. Although tempting, when it comes right down to it, it's best to be just ME

rather than a troubled, promiscuous silent film star.

I'm concerned my cat thinks that I'm his

"significant other."
I never wanted to be in a long-term relationship.

How did it all get so out of hand?

Turkeys like to travel in threes.

My dreams are fucking spectacular.

It's good for your spirit to take a ride on the inside of a big, giant orange.

This is especially beneficial when you've just lost your job.

Everybody claims to know somebody who works here. Nobody really does.

The "Alphabet Game" is a bad idea for dyslexic improv actors.

My friends are my family.

Lucky, lucky me.

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"When I first started acting, it was because of my desire to connect to everyone. To that thing inside each of us. That light that I believe exists in all of us. Because acting for me is about believing in that connection and it's a connection so strong, it's a connection so deep, that we feel it. And through our combined belief, we can create a new reality.”

Forest Whitaker’s Academy Award acceptance speech for

The Last King of Scotland
February, 2007

PRODUCER'S PICK

THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN RIDE AT DISNEYLAND

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN AS

JACK SPARROW REIGNS AS

PIRATE KING

PRODUCER'S PICK

THE LITTLE GIRL GIANT

Presented by the Royal de Luxe Theatre Company

See her here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc

PRODUCER'S PICK

IAN MCKELLEN & CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER,

ACTORS EXTRAORDINAIRE

Oh, all right, I'll do King Lear." Christopher Plummer

"When you're close to an actor playing Lear, it can be very moving because they're giving everything. You get to see inside them. It's very exposing. I'm not looking forward to it at all." Ian Mckellen

EUREKA!

WEST COAST PRODUCTION IN TECHNICAL REHEARSALS

We're here! We're finally, gratefully here! Thank you, west coast! There's much work to be done - more than we ever could have imagined - but, we're here. The rehearsals are tedious, and the cast and crew are growing restless and longing for a self indulgent escape to Disneyland, but we are committed to the success of this production. So, the show goes on and the world goes 'round and

vive la California!

ARTISTS WHO INSPIRE

WYNTON MARSALIS

Trumpeter, Composer, Artistic Director of

Jazz at Lincoln Center

PRODUCER'S PICK

THE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARTISTRY

OF DAVID LACHAPELLE &

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

David LaChapelle

Annie Leibovitz