The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
-Groucho Marx
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
they gave away all the sticky
"People can be abstinent, and it’s not weird."
-Jami Waite, a teenager in Hallsville, Texas
Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future, NYT
Yuh-huh.
-Jami Waite, a teenager in Hallsville, Texas
Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future, NYT
Yuh-huh.
Monday, July 16, 2007
acting and scientology
"The purpose of the acting art is not to bring about therapy... One taps their own experience of love or violence and tries to pull from it whatever is possible in terms of an association or understanding, but there is also the imagination and the character and the writing. The personal thing is always very strong and can be created, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you go into the traumas of your life in order to get it."
-Milton Katselas, quoted in "The Actualizer," Mark Oppenheimer, NYT
Sounds pretty sensible to me; this style of acting has nothing of "be the bacon." Mr. Katselas is associated with the Church of Scientology; apparently the religion has tenets based on observation and clarity, which can be helpful to acting technique. Some performers that I especially admire (including John Travolta, Jason Lee, and Beck) are also believers in this religion that has infiltrated Hollywood. When discussing these performers my friends tend to say "oh, too bad he's a scientologist, I don't like him so much anymore." Which bothers me -- judging someone by what religion they espouse, as opposed to how they behave, is prejudice. Though I am non-religious myself (and in fact I believe that L. Ron Hubbard was one of the worst sci-fi writers I ever read), I don't see why the religion of performers should affect my enjoyment of their work. If a friend tried to proselytize me, it would bother me and affect the relationship; that would be true no matter what the religion was. But I don't know these people; I can only judge them by what they do in the public eye. And if scientology makes them better actors and happier people, I say go to.
-Milton Katselas, quoted in "The Actualizer," Mark Oppenheimer, NYT
Sounds pretty sensible to me; this style of acting has nothing of "be the bacon." Mr. Katselas is associated with the Church of Scientology; apparently the religion has tenets based on observation and clarity, which can be helpful to acting technique. Some performers that I especially admire (including John Travolta, Jason Lee, and Beck) are also believers in this religion that has infiltrated Hollywood. When discussing these performers my friends tend to say "oh, too bad he's a scientologist, I don't like him so much anymore." Which bothers me -- judging someone by what religion they espouse, as opposed to how they behave, is prejudice. Though I am non-religious myself (and in fact I believe that L. Ron Hubbard was one of the worst sci-fi writers I ever read), I don't see why the religion of performers should affect my enjoyment of their work. If a friend tried to proselytize me, it would bother me and affect the relationship; that would be true no matter what the religion was. But I don't know these people; I can only judge them by what they do in the public eye. And if scientology makes them better actors and happier people, I say go to.
Friday, July 13, 2007
marie
My step-grandmother Marie's funeral is this morning in Elizabeth City, NC. She passed away last Sunday after a battle with colon cancer. She was a kind and wonderful lady and was always so sweet to me and to anybody I brought home with me, especially David. Her grown kids are also great people and my thoughts are with them today; I wish I could be there.
http://www.funeralplan.com/twifordfh/obits?id=101992
Marie was my grandfather Roy's second wife; they had been sweethearts as teenagers before he met my grandmother, and after Grandmama died, Roy and Marie met again and married. Their happiness late in life was an inspiration to me -- maybe you have to wait until you're in your sixties or seventies, but you can still find true love.
Marie was my grandfather Roy's second wife; they had been sweethearts as teenagers before he met my grandmother, and after Grandmama died, Roy and Marie met again and married. Their happiness late in life was an inspiration to me -- maybe you have to wait until you're in your sixties or seventies, but you can still find true love.
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