08 May 2004
ActorFest
Lots of fun being a part of this year's ActorFest, especially after last year's ActorFest-related drama. Since that time, another half-dozen of us have left Back Stage West. It was good to see old friends and notice how much things stay the same when they change.
I went as a part of the roll-out of my new weekly column for Showfax and Breakdown Services. Really rockstar day! They set me up in a little area with a table for book-signings and one-on-one mini-consultations.
It was really wonderful to meet some folks who've bought and read and loved my books (always love that) and chat with a few actors. Stand-outs in the masses: Guido Furlani (from HHH and Alessi), Brian Baldini and Sandy Villetti (also from HHH), Joan McGrady (from the AFTRA Senior Showcase), James Cromwell, Rob Edwards, the McCulty family, Alpha Blair (with whom I worked as a CBS audience-testing-show-screener in 1993) Bill Jackson, Julie Ness, Raphael Cuthbertson, Roni Valentine, Patrick Coogan, Ashley and Debra McCarthy, and delightful AMDA near-graduates Chandra, Anna, and Lindsey (they even brought me an iced chai latte with vanilla soy milk from Starbucks!!!).
And colleagues I always love to see and schmooze with: the Holdon Log dynamic duo (Kristina and Brian); acting coach Doug Warhit; TMA's Steven Nash, Paul Bennett, Horacio Blackwood, Betty McCormick-Aggas, Phil Brock; new co-workers Gary Marsh, Bob Brody, Kathleen Bueche, Peter Weiss, Kamali Minter, and Jeff Lam; CSA's Billy DaMota; CCDA's Danny Goldman; author/actor/coach Judy Kerr and instructor Anita Jesse; and the legendary Lawrence Parke, who joined the whole Showfax/Breakdowns gang for drinks after the show.
Just a really wonderful day, all the way around. Good chats with some really head-on-straight actors, reconnections with old friends, and lots of delicious food and drink with the gang after the day was done. Keith Johnson even got to hook up with us toward the end of the day, after having been shooting all morning (oh, and he was "celebrity spotted" by Joseph Butler, who'd read about Keith in Judy's book... right as she walked up... wild!). The whole day was just delightful!
I went as a part of the roll-out of my new weekly column for Showfax and Breakdown Services. Really rockstar day! They set me up in a little area with a table for book-signings and one-on-one mini-consultations.
It was really wonderful to meet some folks who've bought and read and loved my books (always love that) and chat with a few actors. Stand-outs in the masses: Guido Furlani (from HHH and Alessi), Brian Baldini and Sandy Villetti (also from HHH), Joan McGrady (from the AFTRA Senior Showcase), James Cromwell, Rob Edwards, the McCulty family, Alpha Blair (with whom I worked as a CBS audience-testing-show-screener in 1993) Bill Jackson, Julie Ness, Raphael Cuthbertson, Roni Valentine, Patrick Coogan, Ashley and Debra McCarthy, and delightful AMDA near-graduates Chandra, Anna, and Lindsey (they even brought me an iced chai latte with vanilla soy milk from Starbucks!!!).
And colleagues I always love to see and schmooze with: the Holdon Log dynamic duo (Kristina and Brian); acting coach Doug Warhit; TMA's Steven Nash, Paul Bennett, Horacio Blackwood, Betty McCormick-Aggas, Phil Brock; new co-workers Gary Marsh, Bob Brody, Kathleen Bueche, Peter Weiss, Kamali Minter, and Jeff Lam; CSA's Billy DaMota; CCDA's Danny Goldman; author/actor/coach Judy Kerr and instructor Anita Jesse; and the legendary Lawrence Parke, who joined the whole Showfax/Breakdowns gang for drinks after the show.
Just a really wonderful day, all the way around. Good chats with some really head-on-straight actors, reconnections with old friends, and lots of delicious food and drink with the gang after the day was done. Keith Johnson even got to hook up with us toward the end of the day, after having been shooting all morning (oh, and he was "celebrity spotted" by Joseph Butler, who'd read about Keith in Judy's book... right as she walked up... wild!). The whole day was just delightful!
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