And so the facial transformation is complete … shorn January 28, shaven February 10. I’m afraid I still look only vaguely like the historical Ben Hecht, but at least I look circa 1939, which is what Moonlight and Magnolias requires. Am I glad to see my face again in its beardless entirety? Mmmmm … not […]
I’m spending a few days this week with my old (exactly 70 as of Feb. 2) actor friend, Peter Saputo. He’s led an extremely interesting life in the theater and now draws an Equity pension, which fact alone makes him unique in my circle of friends and acquaintances. He’s worked off-Broadway, appeared on game shows […]
Words, words, words. There are plenty of them in the Moonlight script. Fortunately, they’re all very familiar and, though some have wandered a bit in the two years since I first collected them, they’re drifting back into place without a great deal of fuss. This morning, I sent out a call to the cast and […]
