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VenetianBlond: Frankenstein
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Sunday, April 10, 2011. Confession: I've never read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. All the way through. I think what happened is that I started it as a precocious kid, got bogged down, and never went back to it. I've never seen Whale's classic film version either. I did see Gods and Monsters,. However amazing it is from an acting point of view, I'm still undecided about that opening. It serves to orient the audi...
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VenetianBlond: The Feast
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. I'll confess-I've gone back and forth a number of times on a "way in" to this production that honors its complexity without implying discordance. Ultimately I found best way to approach the script by young playwright Celine Song is the both/and. It's both narrative and experimental, a dining room drama and play about big ideas, both squirmingly morbid and goofily funny. The hostess asks us...
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VenetianBlond: #NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 1
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Thursday, June 4, 2015. NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 1. Who's watching the kids? The sound design keeps us off-kilter, too, with the long silences and proto-jump scares of the car horn and the cuckoo clock. The writing underlines the seriousness of the problem. Mother is clearly quite rattled, otherwise why make such a big deal of a ring-a-round-the-rosy type game? Thursday, June 04, 2015. A couple of thing...
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VenetianBlond: #NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 3
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 3. The camera slides along the scene- men asleep in hammocks or lazing around, when blam! Then the full moon is briefly obscured by clouds, and when it reappears, it bathes Bette Davis in light, not unlike a police spotlight mounted on prison walls. She's caught, and she's culpable. This scene gives the same feeling of tension and "what's going on" that...
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VenetianBlond: #NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 2
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Thursday, June 4, 2015. NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 2. This film does not whisk us away to some fantasy where every barista is adorable with a giant NYC apartment, but rather sets us firmly in the real world of hard work. (See also Italian neorealism *name drop*). The silence is deafening. Thursday, June 04, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Noir City Seattle-Saturday Night's Double Bill. One of my...
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VenetianBlond: Repost: Noir City Seattle 2011
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Repost: Noir City Seattle 2011. I'm so behind on my Daily Doses, I thought I'd repost some observations from Noir City a while ago:. Http:/ venetianblond.blogspot.com/2011/02/noir-city-seattle-saturday-nights.html. The two films were "They Won't Believe Me" and "Don't Bother to Knock." The latter should be more widely available-it's amazing. Saturday, June 20, 2015. I just watched Tropic T...
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VenetianBlond: Discovery: Sherlock
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Sunday, November 14, 2010. Okay, so this is not so much a discovery as something that has taken a bit of the internet by storm. Sherlock. Is a 3 part TV series that aired on the BBC in July and August of 2010, then was picked up by PBS's Masterpiece. This fall. It's currently streaming on the PBS site. Until December, and the DVDs are already for sale. Has his own web site. Which to this blogger, is a hoot. Says W...
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VenetianBlond: Writing
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Mythfest was selected in the lottery for Seattle Fringe Festival! My 10 minute play "The Memorial" was selected for Seattle Playwrights' Collective iPlayz: Short Plays about Surviving the Digital Age. First three weekends of June 2014. My 8 minute play "Hippolyta" was produced through Pocket Theater March 7-21 as part of Mythfest. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Noir City Seattle-Saturday Night's Double Bill. Edward C...
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VenetianBlond: Acting
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. New video up on the Carol Milgard website. (Scroll down.). Theatre Puget Sound profile. Shirley Valentine at Woodinville Repertory Theatre. The adventures of office workers whose weekly meetings invariably turn insane. Click image to view. Represented by Big Fish NW. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Noir City Seattle-Saturday Night's Double Bill. NoirSummer : Daily Dose of Darkness 2. In a single shot the view moves to.
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VenetianBlond: Noir City Seattle-Saturday Night's Double Bill
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Writer. Musician. Wife. Mom. Activist. Traveler. Educator. Actor. Outdoorsperson. Braggart. Monday, February 14, 2011. Noir City Seattle-Saturday Night's Double Bill. A couple of things before we get into the post-mortem of the films, They Won't Believe Me. And Don't Bother to Knock. First, this is not my official blogathon entry (see right) although any chance to remind everybody to donate to the Film Noir Foundation should be taken. Click away! As the trap snapped shut was just delicious. And that's ho...