STAR WARS 35 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2012

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THREE MUSKET TEARS

TOUCANS

PIPE DREAM

DON MOST CAST IN GLEE

MY CLIENT DON MOST WAS CAST IN GLEE.





Glee has cast Don Most and Valerie Mahaffey to play Rusty and Rose Pillsbury, the parents of guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

It's clear now where our favorite obsessive-compulsive ginge may have gotten her red hair. Most is best known for playing the redheaded jokester Ralph Malph on Happy Days. Mahaffey has received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role as Eve on Northern Exposure and has a history of playing seemingly normal but rather intense (read: crazy) redheaded ladies, such as the Orson-loving Alma Hodge on Desperate Housewives. Hmm, "intense" could be a trait in the Pillsbury DNA.

FEDERAL THEATER PROJECT

…As an extension of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies, the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was launched on August 27, 1935 with a mandate to “initiate a plan to provide employment for actors.” Gilmore Brown, Founder/Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, was selected to be Regional Director for the West. Brown gave Angelenos steady helpings of Shakepeare (i.e. Max Pollak’s acclaimed 1937 staging of Macbeth at Downtown’s Mayan Theatre) and children’s plays, including an adaptation of the Humperdinck opera, Hansel and Gretel, at the long gone Beux Arts Theatre. Brown’s family-friendly production policy was in contrast to the more politically and socially controversial East Coast projects being staged by the Group Theatre, Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre and others. On June 30, 1939, the FTP ended when its funding was canceled, largely attributed to strong Congressional objections to the overtly left-wing political tones of many FTP productions. However, in March 1975, another attempt at Federally funded actors subsidies was initiated by the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) which endowed the City of Los Angeles with enough funds to create Theatre Arts Program/Los Angeles (TAPLA).





Administered by the City’s Recreation and Parks Department, five performing arts ensembles (three acting companies, a dance ensemble and a puppet theatre) roamed the town, performing at schools, senior citizens centers, recreation centers, festivals, etc. Though never enjoying the comfort of a home performing space, TAPLA gave over 5000 free public peformances before being dissolved in 1979. Along the way, steady employment was enjoyed by hundreds of performers, including such local thesps as David Ankrum, David Arkin Al Alu, Hali Burton, Tony Caruso, Marilyn Child, Virgil Curry, Marci Donley, Don Hamner, Paul Hansen, Will Hutchins, Roger Kern, Michael Macready, Melora Marshall, Mona Marshall, Kathleen Mazzola, George McDaniel, Gigi Perreau, Hugh Reilly, Toni Lawrence, Julio Martinez to name a few.

REBEL SCUM

MY FRIEND BARRIE HOLLAND.

TRUE BLOOD SEASON 4 PREMIERE

My client Rebecca Wisocky played the role of Queen Mab in the season 4 premiere of True Blood.

Here's a before and after picture.





Gotta love that face!

THE VICTIM SCREENS AT QUENTIN TARANTINO'S NEW BEVERLY CINEMA

The Victim is a feature film that I packaged and became an Associate Producer on. We had a special screening of the film in Los Angeles Tuesday Night at Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema.




The stars of The Victim. Ryan Honey, Danielle Harris, Michael Biehn, Jennifer Blanc and Denny Kirkland. Michael Biehn wrote and directed the film.




Ryan Honey is Executive Producer.




Michael Biehn welcomes the audience.



Ryan Honey enjoys the company of Producer Lorna Paul and actress Dana Daurey.





Denny Kirkland and Jennifer Blanc.


Casting Director Kamala Jones and Actress Alyssa Lobitt.




Actress Dana Daurey.





Michael Biehn, Jennifer Blanc and Ryan Honey.



Actress Evie Thompson and Michael Biehn.





Coming to a theater near you...

ROCKET TO THE MOON

My Stepfather, William Challee, was an original member of the Group Theater in New York in the 1930's. Members included Lee Strasburg, Lee J. Cobb, Harold Clurman and playwright Clifford Odets. Below is a telegram that was delivered backstage at The Belasco Theater on Broadway to my Stepfather on opening night of Rocket To The Moon. From the playwright Clifford Odets.

Opening Night Production Credits

Produced by The Group Theatre

Written by Clifford Odets

Directed by Harold Clurman

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Opening Night Cast

Luther Adler
Morris Carnovsky
William Challee
Leif Erickson
Eleanor Lynn
Sanford Meisner
Ruth Nelson
Art Smith

The last film he did in his long and glorious career was Five Easy Pieces starring Jack Nicholson.





He played Jack's Father. Photo below.

ATLAS SHRUGGED

SOME NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD. THE FEATURE FILM

"ATLAS SHRUGGED" WILL PREMIERE NEXT MONTH.

Based on the book by Ayn Rand.



Plot Summary
It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, graineries were empty--and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights winked out and the cities went cold, nothing was left to anyone but misery. No one knew how to stop it, no one understood why it was happening - except one woman, the operating executive of a once mighty transcontinental railroad, who suspects the answer may rest with a remarkable invention and the man who created it - a man who once said he would stop the motor of the world. Everything now depends on finding him and discovering the answer to the question on the lips of everyone as they whisper it in fear: Who *is* John Galt?


My client Rebecca Wisocky plays Henry Rearden's wife. Watch the first scene released for the previews.



Click link below.

http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/atlas-shrugged-movie-scene-henry-rearden-comes-home