See ListersApril 30, 2008 3:36 pm

I just left working on a very compelling Off Broadway play, in which the actors are not being paid. Why? Precisely because they are American actors and, the producers have no respect for them whatsoever.

They have opened a production in Warsaw of their show with great success, and a budget:
This is the most publicity I”ll give them:
The Respected Treatment
and the How Little Can We Pay treatment

It is precisely the fact that we American actors are “a dime a dozen” (some things never need to adjust for inflation!) that the producers behave in the manner they do. The American cast is remarkably talented, but treated like fools. When one actor had to leave the show, the producer actually gave permission to him to place the show on his resume. As you can see by the space, they are working in a caberet, with typical shit lighting in the house - the slide show is the actual star of the show as evidenced by the highly distracting placement - onstage….. This show is not about anti-semitism in contemporary Poland, but about the playwirght. and, that is the worst type of show of all. It should be poitned out, that I was uncermoniously replaced after bringing up the fact, that I was not informed that the light/sound system had been taken care of and I also being replaced as of today until around12:30 this morning via an email. I should also like to point out, the the producers tried to not pay me by asking me to apartment sit their firetrap of an apartment. Gee, kids, thanks, but, no. I don’t work for free, and frankly I was going to be paying you for the “privelege” by paying your house bills.

To the cast, thank you for the run.

What a WorldApril 27, 2008 8:07 pm

Sunday Bookchat « The Opinion Mill

≥If that offer sounds crazy now, it sounded even crazier in 1958 when physicist Edward Teller, who had practically trademarked “Father of the H-Bomb” for his own use, went to Alaska to promote “Project Chariot,” a plan that would have used Teller’s explosive children to create a deep-water harbor on the coast of northwestern Alaska. The locals didn’t want it, and despite government pressure, a well-orchestrated media blitz that had the Alaskan newspapers in Teller’s pocket, they developed into an organized group that managed to halt the project, though not before biologist Les Viereck lost his university position because he provided data supporting the opposition.

My father has never said what the cause of the falling out was. Knowing him, this didn’t sit too well with him

See ListersApril 19, 2008 2:08 pm

No, you did almost a year for breaking the law. Bitch.

Foxy Brown gets out of NYC jail after serving 8 months - Yahoo! News
“The first place I want to go is church. I’ve got to get on my knees,” said Brown.

Instead, Brown went shopping in Harlem, had some soul food and was driven to her childhood home in Brooklyn in a white Rolls Royce Phantom.

You did LESS than a year because your name is Foxy Brown. Had it beenanything else, had you been ANYONE else besides “Foxy Brown” your ass would have been sitting in that Rikers cell until you had that felony rap. The judge gave you a ‘YEAR AND A DAY, so you wouldn’t have that felony. bitch. had your name been shawnelle abernathy, a rap sheet would follow you. Get real. you ain’t shit.

Rumour's Gin Mill, No Shit Sherlock DeptApril 14, 2008 9:16 pm

“Enforcer”??????

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