I LOVE TO PAINT
I love painting. It’s a very absorbing activity. I was trained in Spain and in Northern California many years ago by a spanish master named Miguel Arguello, who changed my life by teaching me this, [...]
FIRESIGN THEATRE CONTINUES TO THRIVE
The author becomes a fan of Firesign Theatre, America's answer to Monty Python, at a recent live (rare) show in Hollywood.
Meskimen Classic Movies Clip #1
The first in a series of audio parodies of Turner Classic Movies and Robert Osbourne, by voice actor and satirist Jim Meskimen.
Birthday Message
Call this essay, The Second Fifty. Better yet, call it what it actually is for me; the NEXT Fifty. September 10, 1959. Do the numbers of the date of your birth look special [...]
Food, Love, Laughter… and One Hard-Boiled Egg
Last weekend my mother threw a birthday party for my step father, actor Paul Michael. As with any party at Marion’s, it was a unique creation, and a wonderful time. My step dad celebrated his [...]
ABUNDANCE
My mother, Marion Ross, believes in Abundance. That’s Abundance with a capital “A”. And to know her is to understand perfectly what she means; she truly seems to want for nothing. It makes it hard [...]
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Cultural High Water Mark: The Return of Return to Forever Last year Tamra and I had the great good fortune of seeing Chick Corea and Return to Forever perform live at the Gibson Amphitheatre in [...]
An Appeal to my Fellow Commercial Actors
I’ve been a professional actor now for over 25 years. During that time I’ve been involved with the making of many hundreds of TV and radio commercials. Commercials are one of the ways we actors [...]
THANKS, but NO THANKS
Wherein the author proposes a simple action towards ending slavishness.
Embarrassment and the Zeitgeist
Okay, so we are all very different. Got that. Thanks to TV we know that we are all basically the same kind of species, anyway, and most of us individually have the same worries and [...]