Yearly Archives: 2011
The Curse of the Birds
I’m in big trouble. There’s a rickety edifice barely standing before me, all plywood boards and stone. Some of it has already come crashing down. Shards of glass and wood are scattered on the ground. I’m hoping the whole thing will just topple over, but by some aberration of physics, the structure holds. Those dirty […]
See? I Can Be Nice, Too
It’s almost impossible not to laugh at this. The father was tearing up rejection slips. I know the feeling… Sigh… maybe I better watch this again.
It felt like 127 Hours
Imagine a friend of yours has invited you to a show of theirs. It’s closing weekend and you have to go. He hasn’t been on stage for about 20 years, and has made his return debut in a community theatre production, which is about 45 minutes away. The lead actor is the director who also […]
Kafka on the Shore
I had an interesting experience while reading the trippy Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami. I was about three-quarters of the way through it, and the main character is taking a literal and metaphorical plunge into a deep, unexplored woods. I’m reading along, and suddenly it hits me: this is my book! Now, in […]
Double Dip for Denis
Kudos to my friend Denis O’Hare, who I’ve written about previously here and here. It was Good Friday for Denis last week, who not only had a movie opening, but (and this is the exciting part)—was in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle! Ah, swoon. The movie was “The Eagle,” starring Channing Tatum (or is it […]
The Magic of ADR
Remember that television show I shot in Chicago last summer? The one where I got last minute lines in Cantonese, and ended up emoting REALLY HARD trying to remember the lines, and ultimately sounding like William Shatner speaking Tagalog? It’s baaaaack! I got a call to do an ADR session for my show. ADR, for […]
She’s 395 Pages, She’s Beautiful, and She’s Mine
We’ve both been trying to trim down. She’s been a lot more successful than I have, but I don’t begrudge her the weight she’s lost. In fact, I can say that I was instrumental in making her trimmer. With some helpful prodding by (ex-) Agent J, she’s got a whole new look: new title, new […]
A Final Swat of the Tiger
All this week, I kept thinking, “What shall I write about? What will be my first blog of the new year? I need for something to happen!” Be careful what you wish for. My new-found literary agent, Agent J, phoned me a few days ago with some unexpected news: he’s no longer going to be […]