Friday, April 21, 2006
...More Than Meets The Eye's
Transformsers, The Movie, Is about to start filming next month and the cast list is starting to leak out. When I first heard Michael Clark Duncan was in it, I figured he would be a Transformer. But instead he plays a Sammy Sosa.
The Cast is listed on the Link. The Transformers will be CGIBMW.
The Cast is listed on the Link. The Transformers will be CGIBMW.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Nervousness
As I beleived I've mentioned in an earlier Blog, My parents were actors in their teens and twentys and occasionally thru their 30's and beyond (All on stage, nothing in movies or on TV). My father's Degree from Depaul in in Theatre. As he got older he always wished he had continued his acting and always wanted to go to Arizona State U. to continue his acting and do somthing with it, but he knew he had a family and gave up his dream to raise my siblings and me. As I get older I look at what I gave up for my breif marriage and know some, but not all, of what he went thru.
A couple of years ago, my cousin, who now lives and acts in London, got a part in a small play in Chicago. After a few weeks of rehersal, the actor who played the part of a 40-50 y.o. bartender backed out and my cousin told the director she knew someone perfect for the job...My dad.
With my sister getting married and my brother and me out of the house, he knew it was time for him to go back to his first love. He auditioned and got the part and it was probably the happiest I've seen my father in a long while.
This weekend my dad is acting again with a small part in "The Cemetary Tree" and I'm going to see him on Saturday night. The only thing is he know's I've been performing at Second City at midnight on Saturday nights so now he wants to come see me after his show.
I always told myself growing up I did not want to become my father, but the older I get, the more like him I get. He always told me the reviews in the Reader and Trib weren' t the ones he was worried about, but he always knew he would hear the truth from his mother, and sometimes it scared him what she would say. And I'm in that position right now. I've been performing for the past 6 weeks in front of people I could care less what they thought. as long as I got more laughs than moans, (actually, sometimes I go for the "I can't beleive he went there" moan) I was happy when I went home. But this Saturday will be different, I will be performing for the man who has always been my biggest critic...and right now I'm a bit Nervous.
A couple of years ago, my cousin, who now lives and acts in London, got a part in a small play in Chicago. After a few weeks of rehersal, the actor who played the part of a 40-50 y.o. bartender backed out and my cousin told the director she knew someone perfect for the job...My dad.
With my sister getting married and my brother and me out of the house, he knew it was time for him to go back to his first love. He auditioned and got the part and it was probably the happiest I've seen my father in a long while.
This weekend my dad is acting again with a small part in "The Cemetary Tree" and I'm going to see him on Saturday night. The only thing is he know's I've been performing at Second City at midnight on Saturday nights so now he wants to come see me after his show.
I always told myself growing up I did not want to become my father, but the older I get, the more like him I get. He always told me the reviews in the Reader and Trib weren' t the ones he was worried about, but he always knew he would hear the truth from his mother, and sometimes it scared him what she would say. And I'm in that position right now. I've been performing for the past 6 weeks in front of people I could care less what they thought. as long as I got more laughs than moans, (actually, sometimes I go for the "I can't beleive he went there" moan) I was happy when I went home. But this Saturday will be different, I will be performing for the man who has always been my biggest critic...and right now I'm a bit Nervous.
