Art House Cafe avec red shoes on a thuuursday

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2002
pastel on canvas

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2002
pastel on paper

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2003
acrylic on canvas

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2003
acrylic on canvas

broken hearted
2003
acrylic on canvas

cordelia
2003
pen on paper

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2003
acrylic on canvas

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2003
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self-portrait (as frida in, "time flies" - make up class project)
2003
pencil on paper

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2005
acrylic on canvas

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2005
pen on paper

amnesty / compassion
2005
permanent marker on paper

blue sacrifice
2005
acrylic on canvas

carlos (a lesson in anger, sadness & forgiveness)
2005
acrylic on canvas

for debra
2005
acrylic on canvas

grotto prayer
2005
acrylic on canvas

torchsong
2005
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girl and hand mirror
2005
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lady in sandstorm
2005
acrylic on canvas

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2005
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2005
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prayer for the faceless
2005
acrylic on canvas

for jen-jen (through the curtain)
2005
acrylic on canvas

untitled (on my birthday)
2006
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grey gardens
2006
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for liberty acting students
2006
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for kristin gedney
2006
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for AS YOU LIKE IT cast
2006
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2006
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for the andreas
2006
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for cecilia
2006
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for LIFE IS A DREAM cast
2007
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2007
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2007
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2007
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2007
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for eva
2007
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for serein
2007
acrylic on canvas

keeping the buoyancy
2007
oil pastel on gouache

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2007
oil pastel on gouache

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama

I had NO DOUBT that Tracy Letts would get the Pulitzer. YAY!!! Sure you can go and buy a copy of the play and read it. But, but, BUT (!) you should really go and SEE it at the Imperial till the 20th, and then starting on the 29th right next door at the Music Box. Go go GO----------------------dammit!

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Here is the article from Playbill.com:

By Andrew Gans
and Robert Simonson, Adam Hetrick
07 Apr 2008

Tracy Letts' dysfunctional-family drama August: Osage County, which opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre in December 2007, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalists were Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang and Dying City by Christopher Shinn.

The 2008 Letters, Drama and Music jurors included Peter Marks (drama critic for The Washington Post), David Lindsay-Abaire (the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner), Jeremy McCarter (drama critic for New York Magazine), Charles McNulty (drama critic for the L.A. Times) and Lisa Portes (head of MFA Directing and artistic director of Chicago Playworks for Young Audiences, the Theater School, DePaul University).

Since Tracy Letts' August: Osage County arrived on Broadway — directly from Steppenwolf, where it also garnered rave reviews — theatre folk have talked of the triple-decker drama (three acts, three generations of one tortured family) as a classic award-getter. It's serious-minded; it's long; it examines the timeless American subject of family — all earmarks of those sorts of works that are frequently considered significant.

At this time last year, few would have thought Chicago-based playwright Letts a contender for the Pulitzer. He was known for two potboiler genre plays, Killer Joe and Bug, both of which did well Off-Broadway, but didn't necessarily inspire critics to dust off a place for the writer in the theatre pantheon. His third play, Man From Nebraska was a Pulitzer contender. Still, when August: Osage County opened at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in June 2007, many remarked that it constituted a wholly unexpected step up for Letts. Reviews compared it to Albee, O'Neill, Shepard and a host of other weighty writers.

The story concerns the Weston family, a large Oklahoma clan with its share of problems. The family is handed a fresh peck of trouble and strife when patriarch Beverly up and disappears. Old wounds are torn open and new ones are unearthed, with the force of family exerting as irresistible a tidal pull on the various Westons as any ocean.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play — directed by Anna D. Shapiro — will offer its last performance at its current home, the Imperial Theatre, April 20 at 3 PM. Beginning April 29, the Steppenwolf production will begin performances at Broadway's Music Box Theatre.

The cast features Ian Barford, Deanna Dunagan, Kimberly Guerrero, Francis Guinan, Brian Kerwin, Madeleine Martin, Mariann Mayberry, Amy Morton, Sally Murphy, Jeff Perry, Rondi Reed and Troy West. Michael McGuire recently joined the cast as patriarch Beverly Weston. McGuire succeeded Dennis Letts, the playwright's father, who created the role of the dissipated poet and died Feb. 22 after a battle with lung cancer.

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of August: Osage County is produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald & Marc Frankel/Barbara Freitag, and Rick Steiner/Staton Bell Group.

Tracy Letts is also the author of Man from Nebraska (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Killer Joe and Bug. His newest play, Superior Donuts, will make its world premiere in 2008 at Steppenwolf, where Letts is an ensemble member and artistic associate. As an actor, Letts has appeared in the Steppenwolf productions of Betrayal, The Pillowman, Last of the Boys, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross, Three Days of Rain, Road to Nirvana, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Glass Menagerie. Letts' screen credits include "The District," "Profiler," "Prison Break," "The Drew Carey Show," "Seinfeld," "Home Improvement," "Guinevere," "U.S. Marshals" and "Chicago Cab."

According to the Pulitzer website, the award is "for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life" and "productions opening in the United States between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007 are eligible" (and opening does mean press opening, as opposed to simply beginning previews). This year is only the third year that the drama prize has used the calendar year, as opposed to the previous system of considering plays between March of one year and March of the next. A small committee of theatre critics and artists determines the nominated finalists, and the overall Pulitzer board picks a winner.


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The Pulitzer Prize — named for American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer — was established in 1917, a stipulation of Pulitzer's will. The first Pulitzer Prize in Drama was awarded in 1918 to Jesse Lynch Williams' Why Marry?

The complete list of Pulitzer Prize in Drama winners is listed below:

2007: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
2006: No award
2004-05: Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
2003-04: I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright
2002-03: Anna in the Tropics, by Nilo Cruz
2001-02: Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks
2000-01: Proof, by David Auburn
1999-00: Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies
1998-99: Wit, by Margaret Edson
1997-98: How I Learned To Drive, by Paula Vogel
1996-97: No award
1995-96: Rent, by Jonathan Larson
1994-95: The Young Man From Atlanta, by Horton Foote
1993 94: Three Tall Women, by Edward Albee
1992-93: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner
1991-92: The Kentucky Cycle, by Robert Schenkkan
1990-91: Lost in Yonkers, by Neil Simon
1989-90: The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson
1988-89: The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
1987 88: Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry
1986-87: Fences, by August Wilson
1985-86: No award
1984-85: Sunday in the Park With George, by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
1983-84: Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
1982-83: 'night, Mother, by Marsha Norman
1981 82: A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller
1980-81: Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley
1979-80: Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson
1978-79: Buried Child, by Sam Shepard
1977-78: The Gin Game, by D.L. Coburn
1976-77: The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer
1975-76: A Chorus Line, by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
1974-75: Seascape, by Edward Albee
1973 74: No award
1972-73: That Championship Season, by Jason Miller
1971-72: No award
1970-71: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel
1969-70: No Place To Be Somebody, by Charles Gordone
1968-69: The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler
1967-68: No award
1966 67: A Delicate Balance, by Edward Albee
1965-66: No award
1964 65: The Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy
1963-64: No award
1962-63: No award
1961-62: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, by Abe Burrows, Willie Gilbert, Jack Weinstock and Frank Loesser
1960-61: All the Way Home, by Tad Mosel
1959-60: Fiorello!, by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock
1958-59: J.B., by Archibald MacLeish
1957-58: Look Homeward, Angel, by Ketti Frings
1956-57: Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill
1955-56: The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
1954-55: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
1953-54: The Teahouse of the August Moon, by John Patrick
1952-53: Picnic, by William Inge
1951-52: The Shrike, by Joseph Kramm
1950-51: No award
1949-50: South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
1948-49: Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
1947-48: A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
1946-47: No award
1945-46: State of the Union, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
1944-45: Harvey, by Mary Chase
1943-44: No award
1942-43: The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
1941-42: No award
1940-41: There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood
1939-40: The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan
1938-39: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood
1937-38: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
1936-37: You Can't Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
1935-36: Idiot's Delight, by Robert E. Sherwood
1934-35: The Old Maid, by Zoe Akins
1933-34: Men in White, by Sidney Kingsley
1932-33: Both Your Houses, by Maxwell Anderson
1931-32: Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira and George Gershwin
1930-31: Alison's House, by Susan Glaspell
1929-30: The Green Pastures, by Marc Connelly
1928-29: Street Scene, by Elmer Rice
1927-28: Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill
1926-27: In Abraham's Bosom, by Paul Green
1925-26: Craig's Wife, by George Kelly
1924-25: They Knew What They Wanted, by Sidney Howard
1923-24: Hell-Bent fer Heaven, by Hatcher Hughes
1922-23: Icebound, by Owen Davis
1921-22: Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
1920-21: Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale
1919-20: Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill
1918-19: No award
1917-18: Why Marry?, by Jesse Lynch Williams
1916-17: No award

















PHOTO CREDITS: Amy Morton & Deanna Dunagan by Michael Brosilow; Tracy Letts by Aubrey Reuben; Cast of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Joan Marcus

Peace Protest in Union Square

It's funny to put the words "peace" and "protest" together but that's what they called it in the news just a couple of minutes ago. People were down in Union Square today holding hands and spreading Peace.

I don't really have anyting poignant to say (when do I EVER have anything profound to say?) about it. BUT the reason I started this blahg was because there was something very sweet and humorous said by a kid which was written on this piece of cardboard he was holding:

BUSH IS A TUSH

3 Films Added to my Favorites:

la Vie en Rose

Y'all already know how I feel about this one...

Big Fish

Right after, I rang up my Dad and told him that I Love him.

2 Days in Paris

How can I get myself to work with Julie Delpy?

Poetry-Time Cafe with Charles Bukowski

The Genius Of The Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art

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Thanks are in order to Carletto for sharing this Bukowski in a bulletin

Padam...Padam...Padam...She is EFFING Stunning

Back when I was rehearsing for LIFE IS A DREAM at SCR, I researched about who Marion Cotillard is. There have been so many comments by critics, journalists, fans, &c...about how even though she was lip-synching the role, they couldn't get over that it wasn't coming from Cotillard's own soul. WELL, there was this article (I believe) that I found that said she went to a voice teacher and asked how she could produce that sound that Piaf possessed. Not so that she could mimic it. She was definitely not interested in imiating Piaf (Please! She's smarter than that=) It was so that she could use the same exact muscles that Piaf used. (Smart gal! I LOVE her!) The same breath. WELL, when time came to film all those singing scenes, she'd have the sound guys buh-last the soundtrack (Piaf's recordings) that way she could sing full out and make us believe that that strikingly amazing sound was produced from her soul.

I can't get over Cotillard. She captured, she understood Piaf's soul, her heart, her skin. She's stunning. Je l'adore.

And what about Edith Piaf? Marlene Dietrich said it in, "La Vie en Rose," You are the soul of France.

Please...argue with me. Oh! I'd love it. I'd love it. C'mon! Don't hang back! (Now if you can tell me what film that's from...you're hot!)

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On a sad note...one of my favorite directors/writers, Anthony Minghella, died today of a hemorrhage at the age of 54. I just got home a couple of minutes ago and read that. The world lost a great visionary. A moving poet. Such a gentle, passionate, loving, warm soul. The first person I thought of when I read that he past away was Juliette Binoche, and when I saw her on the Actor's Studio saying how she wanted to be on the set of, "The English Patient," forever if she could. God. The depth of emotion that revealed when she spoke of that time of filming.

The second person I thought of was my good friend, Frank. "The English Patient," is our film.

May Anthony Minghella see the sky shining like diamonds and hear the angels sing.

Fire Diagonally Across The Street

So...in the wee small hours of yesterday morn, around 2a, standing in front of my mirror modelling my new tote bag for myself, I heard a *POP* outside my window. I thought, "Oh.My.God! What was that? Don't tell me that was a gun. Oh, no! Is there a shooting going on?!!" LOL! I felt firetruck lights and saw them winding round and round, instantly. I looked out the window and diagonally across the street from where I live, fire. My goodness. It was in this alley/driveway, right behind this white van.

I couldn't believe. It was fascinating. I mean, that early in the morn and people were out! I'm thinking they came out of their homes just to see what was up. OR, they could have been coming home from a night out. Though, for some reason, I can't believe that because there have been times when I've come home after midnight or so, and there was no one on my street.

I also rang my Ma after the fire was put out. Bad idea, she had a very calm sounding, concerned freak-out (is that possible?) but I calmed her down and told her it wasn't my building, that it was across the street and the firemen already put the fire out. It took a few minutes to make that clear to her!

Anyhoot...here are some photos that I took:

Check out this event: Public Hearing re: New Globe Theater

Hosted By: New Globe Theater
When: Monday Mar 10, 2008
at 5:00 PM
Where: Federal Hall
26 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
United States
Description:
New Globe Theater

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