Thank You!

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My website was down for two weeks and I am so grateful for all the people who said they missed it. I didn’t realize there were so many of you out there who checked in so often.

So…

Thank you! Its nice to know you’re listening.
xoxo

More anon.

silence is golden

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[color=magenta] let go, let God[/color]

In Good Company

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My sweet friend Saba remembered that I was dying to see the movie ‘In Good Company’, so when she and her boyfriend, Neil, made plans to see it tonight, she called me up and invited me along. Despite the fact that they live quite a jaunt away and I was feeling sleepy, I jumped in the car an drove to Burbank. I’m so glad I did — I was happy to have company to see it with.

Well, I highly recommend this film. The performances are wonderful, especially from Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace (cute, cute, cute). Nuanced, layered, thoughtful, funny and touching. It’s a feel good movie with a message to corporate America, and an ending that doesn’t tie up in a little bow (thank goodness). In real life, the guy doesn’t always get the girl (or the girl, the guy, for that matter, huh?).

Go see it…in your own good company.

4 of these > ****

And the award goes to…

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(deep breath)

tonight the hollywood foreign press chose their favorite performances of the year. i watched. i admired. i laughed. i clapped. i cried…

every year, i eagerly await the arrival of the award season. i adore watching my peers, if i may call them that, receive recognition for their craft. but to be honest, as much as i enjoy trying to predict the outcome and making my ‘best dressed’ list (i don’t belive in ‘worst dressed’), watching these shows always fills me with a little anguish. i feel a sense of yearning. and that’s what it is…a deep and anxious longing. it’s this feeling way down deep in my little belly. a desire to be given the chance.

Goal number one; Check!

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I knew 2005 was going to be a great year. I could just feel it. And despite car trouble getting me down this week I am in good spirits because today I acheived one of my goals for 2005. Already!!

Woo hoo! Last week I had an audition for a commercial for ‘Blue Cross of Rhode Island’. Here’s the scenario:

Cute, young couple out to dinner with her parents. Dad goes to pour his daughter some wine and she subtley puts her hand over her glass. Well, perhaps she is usually a lush, because her mother looks surprised and intuits that it means she’s pregnant. She says “Oh honey. I’m so happy for you!”. Her dad, cluelessly says, “What? What did I miss?” Her mom says, “Well, are you excited…Grandpa?” And then much congratulating and celebrating ensues while the voiceover says something like, “Blue Cross of RI is here when life changes come along” or something cheesy like that.

So I dressed in my best “East Coast, well-to-do, dinner attire” and was asked to do the audition twice (with two different husbands and two different moms, but the same dad). It was fun—I didn’t have any lines, so I just got to react and show my best “I’m so happy to be having a baby” look. (not that I’ve ever experienced that, but I guessed it was little like the “I’m so happy I got the part” feeling)

That was last tuesday, so I figured they had already notified people if they were called back. Well, apparently not, because tonight my agent called and told me I got the callback!!

I have my first callback for an “on-camera” job and I’m so pleased…check that off my list.

Now onto ‘booking the job’ !