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     Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3036 Registered: 12-2001  |
Thanks also to the News Record for the coverage. | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3091 Registered: 12-2001 |
Thanks also to the number of MOL'ers who came out to see the show. I really appreciated the support. I had a really good time and learned a great deal about what I thought I already knew. So that reinforcement will come in handy. | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3092 Registered: 12-2001 |
Thanks also to the number of MOL'ers who came out to see the show. I really appreciated the support. I had a really good time and learned a great deal about what I thought I already knew. So that reinforcement will come in handy. | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3149 Registered: 12-2001 |
OK so now that the festival is over, I can go back to what I do most of the time and that is act. herewith is an invitation to all to come see Communicatin Doors by Alan Ayckbourn at the Bickford Theater in Morristown..  If you think you might make it, PL me and I will give you the code for the "company discount". Instead of 28 bucks/ticket its 20/ticket. So its worth it to let me know. Plus I would enjoy meeting more MOL'ers. It was great to meet Joan finally at the Goat Film Festival and Sbenois at H2TA. So while I am certain that Kenney wont waste his time on amateur theatricals  I do hope some of you others will make the short trip out Columbia Turnpike to the theater. Thanks | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3247 Registered: 12-2001 |
Nice review here from the Star Ledger not the show I was expecting, or frankly the reception I was expecting. But hey, I'll take it if it helps some tickets. | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3499 Registered: 12-2001 |
Play is over. Thanks to those that came. Back to the movies. | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3570 Registered: 12-2001 |
Sherrard Gray died last week. He was a friend, fellow writer, muse. He battled Lou Gherig's disease and Non Hodgkin's lymphoma.He was not at all an old man. He never felt sorry for himself and was, to the last, full of life. His death leaves me empty, as if I had lost a family member. I was always emailing him my successes and failures professionally and getting some of the soundest advice I have ever gotten. From anyone. He lived in Greensboro Vermont, tucked away in the Green mountains quite alone and yet never lonely . He wrote short stories and sold quite a few of them to the Hitchcock Magazine. They were nothing more than potboilers but they were/are entertaining. I am beyond a sad I have known since my father died. He encouraged my film work, having the nerve to say to me that I was facing down the monsters and that nothing would get in my way, all the while fighting mutually exclusive diseases that left him without medical recourse. In August he decided to stop taking food and I went up to see him. We chatted for well more than the 30 minutes guests were allowed and he didn't seem like a dying man to me. He seemed like a living man whose body was being ravaged. His spirit, humour, love and above all humility was inspiring. I later discovered that he started taking bouillion and crackers and the odd apple martini to sustain himself a little while longer. That image still makes me smile. He said to his care giver when I was there that some folks were coming over for drinks or dinner which should it be. His answer, profane as it was, made me laugh my arse off. I sent him the roughest cut of my latest film, BUST, at his request and I never heard back from him. I hope he got to see it. I know that for the rest of my life I will remember a humble man from a small town in Vermont who cared more about my latest filmic adventures than he did his own death. Or was a genius in his ability to make me feel that way. I will miss him deeply and wish any of you could have known him. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3409 Registered: 5-2001  |
Duncan- I lost a dear friend to ALS several years ago. I understand your pain and loss; it takes an exceptionally special person to maintain a sense of humor and dignity to the end with that disease. I am sorry to hear that you lost your friend; I hope that your last visit with him brings you good memories and smiles for years to come. | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3573 Registered: 12-2001 |
Greentree..thanks | ||
| Duncan Citizen Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3638 Registered: 12-2001 |
Got to do two television interviews in the last week. One, a new show in NYC called New Yorkers, live UHF show. Got 10 minutes and a good clip from THe Reader. Then got to be on the last of Nancy Heins-Glaser's shows for Channel 35: Meet The Artist. Half hour show with Bennett Lieber, founder of the Goat Short Film Festival. I will post when it is scheduled to air. Starting rehearsals for a very rarely done Shaw play in NYC called The Apple Cart. Anyone who wants to see how far ahead of his time he was out to give it a read. I am playing the King. Great satire. Great writing. Lousy pay. But hey, sometimes you do things just because you would never get the chance otherwise. | ||
| Mark Fuhrman Citizen Username: Mfpark Post Number: 989 Registered: 9-2001  |
Let's see...I get paid okay, sit in an office all day, and the extent of my creativity is to craft an elegant spreadsheet. You get paid lousy, get to internalize Shaw and commune with a live audience. I know the grass is always greener, but boy, your side sounds pretty good. Hope the play goes well. I am not familiar with this work--would it read well off the page, or is it only accessible when seen live? | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3670 Registered: 12-2001 |
Its christmas time. I sort of feel like Charlie Brown this year. We didn't set up the lights in the back yard, and that may be part of it. My father died 10 years ago and I am painfullly aware of it cause he would have loved to meet my son, and see the Sox win the series. Some knuckleheads set fire to my back yard, and the people who I have invested time and energy in, with some notable exceptions, have let me down. So it is with some bewilderment that I find myself not all that pumped up for a Christmas that my son (almost 4) will be thrilled about. So far he has lead me back in time on many occasions to witness, old eyes seeing new, many things. Simple things like a dandelion. Which to a homeowner is a weed. But to a 3 year old is a wonderful cool flower that turns into this great thing you can blow apart. Stuff like that. He believes the moon follows him. And it does. And for all the professional movement forward I still dont know what I want to be when I grow up. Time for some Rosemary Clooney and Vince Guaraldi to put me back in the mood. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. | ||
| Earlster Supporter Username: Earlster Post Number: 786 Registered: 8-2003  |
Duncan, funny thing you mention the dandelions. I had the exact same experience this summer with my daughter, and it really brought me back to my childhood days, playing with those little 'parachutes', without any knowledge of the 'consequences'. On the sad not, my dad also passed away befor my daughter was born, and I really wish they had met. She is just at the age where she is realizing that I don't 'have' a father and it is confusing her. Live is a continuous up and down, unfortunatly things go wrong once in a while, and being let down by people is really dishartening. But usually as soon as things seem the worst, they unexpectedly turn to be even better then they were before. I absolutely believe in that, and it has always worked out for me. So keep walking and good things will be around the corner. Have a merry x-mas and enjoy it with your family. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3674 Registered: 12-2001 |
Thanks Earlster I wish you a Merry Christmas and look forward to the wonderment in my sons eyes Saturday morning. And to reading him Santa's Visit on Friday night. Earlster, as my friend would say...You are good people. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3677 Registered: 12-2001 |
Alistair Sim as Scrooge. His revelation that the spirits did it all in one night is one of the best moments captured on film in any time for any story. | ||
| knak Citizen Username: Knak Post Number: 95 Registered: 5-2002 |
"Some knuckleheads set fire to my back yard" ? that's terrible! When did this happen and what's the story? | ||
| Soda Citizen Username: Soda Post Number: 2171 Registered: 5-2001  |
We don't deserve to be this happy! -s. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3688 Registered: 12-2001 |
TOnight I had my family over. Those of us that live in the states. My father died 10 years ago November, but one of his hobbies was making really intricate Christmas ornaments using styrofoam balls and pins and sequines and various other crafty items. That, along with his oil painting, was his artistic outlet. So tonight, rather than let the anniversary of his death be a background sadness, we gathered and each of us put one of his hand made ornaments on the tree and said something memorable about my dad. Most touching was my son, who never met his grandpa Bill, saying "I love you Granpa Bill and I miss you". Later, when I was obviously sad he told me that it would be ok and that we would see him again in heaven. God I love the lack of cynicism in 4 year olds. I am sure that my dad and Aunt Eilene just had a good laugh over what that kid said tonight. And I can move forward with christmas, content in the fact, that he is missed, never forgotten, and always around. And Knak.. the fire happened last thursday night there is a thread over in Virtual Cafe with more details. No one was hurt. Thank God. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3698 Registered: 12-2001 |
Merry Christmas. Time to watch Scrooge and assemble things that I forgot to buy the batteries for. Heres to a fun day tomorrow for all Christians and multifaith families with children. "At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows." Shakespeare, of course | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3706 Registered: 12-2001 |
Ah, the slow progression towards Twelfth Night, and an opportunity for me to vent at all the churches in town. If I remember correctly Christ was "born" on December 25th (or so it was later decided by someone) and the Magi followed the star of Bethlehem to the stable where the child was born. Their trip took twelve days. The Epiphany is January 6th and yet every year before Christmas the nativity scenes in front of the churches have the wise men ALREADY THERE. What might be fun to see is for the nativity to be set up during advent, the Christ child laid in the manger as part of the event leading up to the midnight mass, then every night from Christmas to Jan 6th move the wise men closer and closer to the stable until, on twelfth night the whole assemblage gathers. I am not a particularly religious person, but this has always bugged me. Anyone with a more active faith care to help me understand this? HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
