Captain Spaulding on Skull Island

Hitchcock Blonde

. First off – here’s a link to National Film Preservation Foundation’s website. I’ll come back to this several times, it’s the reason for this post. Now… This is cool. In 2011, three of six reels of a 1924 film called THE WHITE SHADOW were found in New Zealand. The previously lost film was directed [...]

VISIBLE SOUL Interview

The blog VISIBLE SOUL interviewed me for my upcoming production of “Purple Hearts and Missing Femurs” in New York. You can read it here. “Purple Hearts and Missing Femurs” opens this weekend as part of EBE Ensemble’s ELEPHANTS ON PARADE. It runs May 3 to May 12.

Happy Birthday Shakespeare!

. It’s William Shakespeare’s 448th birthday! The website Blogging Shakespeare is celebrating by having bloggers around the world post their thoughts on how Shakespeare has impacted their lives. I’ve acted in a few of the bard’s plays (“Romeo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “The Tempest”) and even directed one (“The [...]

Friday’s Forgotten Books – BORDER TOWN GIRL by John D. MacDonald

. Over at her blog, Patti Abbott is hosting John D. MacDonald Day in her weekly feature “Friday’s Forgotten Books.” I thought I’d write up a little something. I first encountered MacDonald in 1992 when I read THE EXECUTIONERS, the basis for both movie versions of CAPE FEAR. I liked it, but didn’t feel compelled [...]

Friday’s Forgotten Books – GOOD BEHAVIOR

. Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake (aka Richard Stark, aka Tucker Coe, aka Samuel Holt, aka Judson Jack Carmichael, aka several other pseudonyms, pen names and nom de plumes) died on New Year’s Eve 2008. His latest book, THE COMEDY IS FINISHED, will be published next Tuesday, February 21 by one of the best publishers [...]

Favorite Woody Allen

—– What a busy month for this writer! With a new short story collection out on Kindle, A BUCKET OF BOOBS, and 15 of my plays running (1 at the Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, 1 at Hobo Junction in Chicago and 13 in my evening TALES OF THE TWINKLING TWILIGHT at Raven Theatre in Chicago), [...]