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Leslie on May 15, 2006 |
No commentsI’m in a one-act plays this tonight. This Saturday May 20 at 7:30PM, I play a woman in love with a serial killer in a short play called “Love So Pure.” It’s an evening of plays… a fundraiser for a group called First Stage.
The plays actually start a lot earlier. Feel free to come by at 5pm and enjoy the entire evening!
These plays are part of the First Stage one-act series at the church on Franklin and Highland in Hollywood. Plenty of parking and lots of other great one-acts are playing as well. Hope to see you there!
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Posted by
Leslie on May 15, 2006 |
No commentsI directed another short movie for a friend for her CalArts thesis project. It’s about a woman brought over to America from India, who is coping with the restrictive life she must endure in her pre-arranged marriage to a domineering, controlling husband.
It is screening at CalArts in Valencia, CA this Friday.
We will be showing the film between 2-4 PM at the Bijou theater, located across the library on the 2nd Floor.
You can park in the main lot and enter through the main entrance, take an immediate right, walk across a small lobby, take a left, go down the stairs to the second floor and the Bijou is on your right.
Come by 1:45 to get good seats!
http://www.calarts.com/
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Posted by
Leslie on May 15, 2006 |
No commentsHi Everyone,
I received this email today. Hope you can catch this!
Leslie
Hello! I am happy to inform you that you have been chosen as a ManiaTV!
Featured Filmmaker. Your film, “Real Vs. Reel“ will be airing tonight
during Too Short For Hollywood at 10 pm EST.
Be sure to inform your friends, family, fans and viewers that you have
been chosen as a ManiaTV! Featured Filmmaker and that your film will be
broadcasted worldwide www.maniatv.com..
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Posted by
Leslie on May 2, 2006 |
One commentI just want to say that I fell in love with Rent when I first saw it many many years ago. I was all about the tent city and the squatters staying in their space. I was all about saying “Fuck you” to Benny and his razzle dazzle offer.
Maybe it’s that I’m getting older, but my opinion has completely changed.
Benny was not the bad guy.
Here’s this guy telling his friends that he can hook them up with a fancy movie studio, where they can do all their work without someone looking over their shoulder at their creative choices. And free rent, too.
But Roger and Mark say, “No, Screw you Benny! We like our angst.” And instead, Mark takes a job at a sleazy tabloid where he is miserable because although he is shooting a lot, he is told how to shoot it, what the story is, what he should include and not include, etc.
I had a dream last night related to this, and I thought about Benny and how in my younger days I would have said no to him, thinking that that choice was noble in some way, which totally doesn’t make sense to me now.
Being a starving artist is both a choice and a reflexive habit, but I think the same people that find nobility in being a starving artist, would completely change their ways if they saw what was keeping them starving. It’s not nobility, it’s bad choices. I’ve seen it in my own life and I’ve seen it in others. It’s saying no to the giftings the universe brings. It’s a safe, attractive label to take on when things get too zippy and the universe actually grants exactly what they want. Or worse, the universe grants them what they want and they fuck it up by being irresponsible.
The ironic thing is that starving artists rarely have time to do their art. They’re too busy working to pay rent, and rarely can afford their artistic endeavors, which cost money.
And then all those starving artists look at other people doing what they want to do and making money from it, and call them sell outs. That’s bullshit. That’s exactly what Mark became after he took the job at the tabloid. Not because it was a tabloid, but because he didn’t enjoy what he was doing.
So therefore… Benny was right. He made a generous offer and he was snubbed.
I pray the universe guide me to always give a resounding yes to the Bennys in my life. I pray the universe help me to get out of my own way.
And I pray the same for you, whatever your circumstance may be.
Peace.
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