July 2011
18 posts
It's Finally Happening...
If you know me and if you’ve read this blog you know my son’s love of the musical Les Miserables. Tomorrow we are going to see the show, live, at the Ahmanson theater.
Roan is extremely excited. However, his “obsession” with Les Miz has faded just a wee bit in that he’s not constantly playing “Les Miserables” anymore. In other words, he has other...
Testicle Seeds
I am not sure if this post will be deemed “inappropriate.” I don’t think it should be, if it is, because testicles are simply a part of the human (male) body and what’s inappropriate about that? Also, if it weren’t for testicles, where would we all be today? Not alive, that’s where. So here I go.
Roan must have been just four when he asked me where babies...
Take Me Out To The Ballgame--Hollywood Edition
Roan attended his first baseball game last week. An old friend of Steve & I now works closely with Tom Hanks’ production company. He invited Roan and Steve to watch the Dodger game from Tom Hanks’ personal box. Suite. Amazing.
What happens in a luxury suite is that you are served food and drink while lounging and watching a baseball game. Great, right? Well….. I have to...
Burst Pipes & Sexy Writhing Women
This morning after watching “The Last Airbender” (good) and cleaning the house (necessary) Roan and I headed outside to water our “crops.” We recently planted a bunch of vegetables and refer to them as our crops. The hose pops out of the wall and a pipe bursts shooting water like a geyser.
Remembering I had an audition a few hours later I quickly disrobed, grabbed some...
Runaway Ned
For those of you who saw my solo show you know that when I was a child my beloved dachshund and her six puppies were violently attacked and killed and eaten by a large owl! While this story is rather comedically told with the help of puppets in my show— when Ned escaped last night— it haunted me.
We are in Encinitas for the weekend. My hometown where my dad still lives in the...
Beautiful Tragedies
I’m just thinking about the death of Amy Winehouse.
I recently saw a photo of her where she looked extremely ill and troubled, so I cannot say I am at all surprised by her death. The photos of her are haunting, sickening… this woman was SO SO ILL.
Just because someone is talented and famous doesn’t mean they are immune to death. And yet we feel surprised that such a bright...
Graffiti Angel
My dead mom sent me a very clear message the other day…
A couple days after I did my show - Dead Moms Don’t Hug- I took Ned to the dog park for his first time.
I used to take Lionel and Lola every day, for years, before they died. It felt great to be back. Ned was on fire. His tiny legs raced him across the grass running faster and stronger than I could have EVER imagined from such...
Gwyneth's Cook Book...
Can someone help me understand this? Why does bone thin Gwyneth Paltrow have a cook book?
(notice how her head is turned away from the sauce on the spoon in the second photo… she’s not getting anywhere NEAR those calories! But she’ll smile and look pretty!)
Ok, I get it, it’s an homage to her father who she adored, who passed away, with whom she spent many a happy...
Auditioning with Maya Angelou
Had a commercial audition today and the woman I was paired up with was MAYA ANGELOU.
Ok, so it wasn’t the REAL Maya Angelou but by what she looked like and her voice… it may as well have been. It was jawdropping how much this woman looked like Maya Angelou. And when she opened her mouth to speak…. It was shocking! Can I tell you how funny it is to slate your name into the...
Laotongs & Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Someone told me yesterday, “Movies about Women are the HOT NEW THING!!” Well, there have always been “movies about women.” But I guess they are particularly in vogue now. Perhaps because of articles like famous Vanity Fair article Why Women Aren’t Funny. Some funny women decided to make a statement.
It’s BIZARRE to me that two of my close girlfriends WROTE...
Shrimp Poboy
I’m sitting alone at the counter of Mahoneys Poboy shop on Magazine Street in New Orleans.
Been staying at my In laws and eating my mother in laws fabulous food, going out to new & interesting places, but no Poboy for me yet on this trip and we leave tomorrow.
Much like New York pizza crust, you cannot recreate new Orleans Poboy French bread anywhere else. They say it’s the water. And...
NED
After we lost Lionel and Lola the house was quiet without the pitter patter of Boston Terrier toenails trotting on our floors.
Our bed felt empty without the gentle ebb and flow of their breath. I even missed Lola’s snoring and terribly bad breath. They were our companions for 14 years. We were a team missing our mascots.
A few weeks went by and we realized that life is in some ways...
"Remain an Actor"
I’m reposting this quote from http://janaehere.tumblr.com/ via dreamschemebelieve.tumblr.com (two awesome blogs I follow)
because I think it’s brilliant.
“Fame is a blue chip, a golden coin that comes out the slot machine of chance (some might say luck- I dont know if I’d categorize it so positively), opportunity, and the amount of effort you expend on winning. It’s...
Make Me Look Like a Drag Queen Please!
I love Drag Queens. In fact you may remember a previous post about one of my favorites, the stunning Calpernia.
Yes, the above woman is actually a MAN.
But as much as I enjoy the art of Drag, I did not want to look like a Drag Queen for my solo show. I wanted to look like myself, but myself who perhaps had gotten a bit more sleep than I actually did. So decided to go to Nordstroms to the MAC...
Me & Brody Jenner
…Continued from post below…
OK So after an expensive hair blowout that ultimately fizzled to limpness in the LA humidity 10 minutes after it was done, I headed across Sunset Plaza to a restaurant to get a very expensive salad.
I rarely frequent restaurants like this. What I mean is, I frequent a lot of “foodie-reccomended-KCRW-supported restaurants” But not the trendy...
drybar! / Sunset Plaza is Gross
The day of my show I decided to get false eyelashes applied and get a professional blow out at “The Blowdry Bar” the trendy new salon that ONLY does blow dries.
Let me tell you I had to talk myself into doing these things. I always do my own hair and makeup for shows. But after seeing a hideous video of myself performing I realized I do NOT have the skills to make myself look...
The Laundress
Tonight I realized it was too warm for our usual duvet on our bed so I gathered it in two swift moves arranging it in a tidy folded rectangle at the foot of our bed.
Roan: “Wow, Mommy you SURE are a good FOLDER. You really folded that good!”
Me: “Thanks, Roan. I guess I am pretty good at folding things.”
Roan: “Do you suppose you’re a better folder than...
I'll Take It!
The Outpouring of Love from my audience is overwhelming. I’m doing something new with it.
Instead of immediately putting up a wall via saying things like, “Well, oh well, I don’t know how it happened” or, “Well, you are too nice.” I’m actually letting it SINK IN. I’m taking it in the spirit it’s given. A new exercise for me.
One of my...
