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No. 88 Anita Brookner's Portrait Painting
"The truth I’m trying to convey is not a startling one, it is simply a peeling away of affectation." -- Anita Brookner I wanted to share...
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pgracemiles
- Jun 23, 2019
- 1 min
No. 87 Sunday Readings on June 23, 2019
Here are four stories I thought you might find interesting: One: Today’s Brain Pickings blog highlighted a vital book entitled, The Lost...
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pgracemiles
- Jun 22, 2019
- 3 min
No. 86 The Big, Bad, Brilliant Virginia Woolf
"Only the fire sets me dreaming - of all the things I mean to write" I’m reading Virginia Woolf’s diaries. Though I’ve read all of her...
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pgracemiles
- Jun 21, 2019
- 2 min
No. 85 Sleep as a Theatrical - Political Act
Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them, warm them, until evening when I'll brush her hair. -- from Warming Her...
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pgracemiles
- Jun 20, 2019
- 3 min
No. 84 Insomnia: Night & Day Pzizz
"When we fall asleep, I think we gain access to a mode of the universe that otherwise is inaccessible; dream-time and dream-space are as...
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pgracemiles
- Jun 13, 2019
- 2 min
No. 83 The Game of No Artificial Light After Sundown
The breathing (snoring) gets heavy when the sun goes down. I'm a 54-year-old big baby about going to bed early."This is MY time!" "What...
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pgracemiles
- Jun 8, 2019
- 3 min
No. 82 Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits of May 2019
ONE: My Harsh & Hilarious Hate Letter to Myself. A friend is becoming a professional coach and she needs to clock in coaching hours. I...
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pgracemiles
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
No. 80 Optimist Devil & Despair Angel
“An angel sat on one shoulder, a devil on the other. Both of them wore my face.” ― Michelle Hodkin TODAY 7:10 am My morning reading...
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pgracemiles
- May 28, 2019
- 1 min
#79 A Reckoning for Non-Equity Theatre Companies
Vigilance | Professionalism | Respect | Trust | Transparency | Awareness Until the #MeToo movement, I had cynically assumed that to rid...
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pgracemiles
- May 23, 2019
- 2 min
No. 78 My Restoration of Restoration
Or How I Never Stopped Loving Periwigs and Petticoats I love when an article I come across is relevant for me and my work. Such is the...
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pgracemiles
- May 20, 2019
- 2 min
No. 77 Bewitching Advice from Nick Cave
Is visualization bullshit? I couldn't tell you because I've never given it a chance. Let's ask Nick Cave! I’m home for a week after...
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pgracemiles
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
No. 76 Falling Asleep During Mass
I grew up in a household very aware of television comedy and we watched it every night. At the age of eight or nine, I was even allowed...
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pgracemiles
- May 14, 2019
- 1 min
No. 75 Doris Day Drinking Tea
I had a lovely blog prepared about directing tips from an American director of my generation. Then I found out he was in a leadership...
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pgracemiles
- May 13, 2019
- 2 min
No. 74 Damn Fine Norma Jennings
Bobby Briggs: Norma, I'll see you in my dreams. Norma Jennings: Not if I see you first. I remember watching the Mod Squad as a very young...
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pgracemiles
- May 12, 2019
- 4 min
Pattie's Top Ten Cultural Hits of April 2019 (4 -10)
In no special order. 4. The publishing of Playwriting, Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys 'What Stephen...
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pgracemiles
- May 6, 2019
- 3 min
Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits (tonight 1 - 3) of April 2019
Over the next week, I will share my top ten cultural hits of April 2019 in no particular order. 1. NYT T-Mag April 14, 2019 “A microphone...
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pgracemiles
- Apr 27, 2019
- 1 min
The Tea Set Game Show
In what film or television show do we find this tea set? Scroll down through the photos and try to guess. The answers are at the bottom....
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pgracemiles
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
No. 70 Murder Most Artful
“Didn’t even notice the thorns were real?” --- Jessica Fletcher Have you seen Velvet Buzzsaw on Netflix? It is a campy horror film that...
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pgracemiles
- Apr 22, 2019
- 3 min
Hot & Bothered Amongst the Heather
wuth·er·ing /ˈwəT͟HəriNG/ adjective NORTHERN ENGLISH (of weather) characterized by strong winds. "it's a wuthering day on the moors...
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pgracemiles
- Apr 20, 2019
- 2 min
Verdon/Fosse
“I never thought of him, when we were working, as my husband. Judy Garland came backstage one time, and she said, oh, your husband's done...
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