I have been working on creating a Film Acting Class in Lexington. So, I have developed a website which describes the process in detail.It's called.. THE FILM ACTORS LAB - Lexington, http://www.thefilmactorslab.com.It is an Intensive Film Acting Training with an Indie-Film Experience. The class format is a repeatable 4-week cycle offering the actor the full experience of taking a scene from rehearsal through shooting in the compressed time frame often encountered in film. During each 4-week cycle scenes will be read (Cold Reading Technique), blocked, shot and edited and reviewed. Each class memeber will recieve a DVD of their work in order to monitor thier process.If you are interested, check out my website. Contact me with any questions.
So if you Lex types are interested, check it out...
In other news:
-Just had my auditions for HOLIDAY MEMORIES at AGL. The show opens Nov. 29th and runs through December 24th. I'll post a cast list here in a few days, but I have a dandy group to work with and I'm way excited about this project. If you're in the area, come on and check it out!
- Looks like the Tonda Fields directed LONE STAR w/ Shayne Brakefield and Jack McIntyre that got so much great buzz will be playing at the KTA Community Theatre Festival, Saturday Nov. 11th (I believe it's in the 8am early morning slot- Shayne, if you read this, correct me if I'm wrong) For more info on the fest itself, go to www.theatreky.org
- Steve Martin's THE UNDERPANTS opens at AGL on October 19 and runs trough November 12th. Check it out, particularly to see the Lexington re-introduction of one CHarles E. Pogue, a frequent flyer here at the Clones. The show has a great cast, and also features Pete Sears, Haley Williams and the great Gene Arkle amongst others.
For today's question:
Who's your ideal presedential candidate in 2008, and why?
Feel free to take up valuable bandwidth discussing.....and, oh yeah, 79 points for the reference!
36 comments:
"Peg" By Steely Dan
And your spoiling me. My head'll get all swelled up and there won't be no living with me.
I'm gonna go ahead and take the early hits on this one. I'll take Hillary Clinton in that race. I know, I know. But, Hillary has been positioning herself as a major contender. New York has grown to love her. She has made it her M.O. to work in a very bipartisan fashion in the Senate- even cooperating with that stinkin' Santorum. Like her or not, I believe she has the goods to do the job. Plus, can you imagine what her staff/cabinet/braintrust would be like? James Carville has already spoken out that he is picking "the H-Bomb" in this race as well. Pair her cooperative bent nowadays with Bill's ability to get many different factions to come together for non-political progress on global matters (he got Rupert Murdoch to sonsor a global warming initiative with Barbra Streisand, for Christ's sake!) and you have a damn fine team to help us dig back out of (yet again) the biggest mess in our history.
Besides, the Clinton camp seems to be the only team with any balls these days. It's gonna take balls to win trust and make amends where it needs to be made after this last team of monkeys finally finishes flinging poo in the Oval Office.
Plus, with the newly remodeled Democrat Congress were about to get, it'll be full steam ahead to stick some war profiteers in prison. Preferrably a nice, dark, secret prison where the Geneva Conventions just don't matter anymore.
Would you believe I used to be *almost* Republican?
CTHULHU for president!
Why vote for the lesser evil!
My dream pick.. Borack Obahma, Sen Ill. (or me!)
-russell
Whoever it is, it'll be the democratic candidate for me. I like Hillary, but I hope the Dems don't nominate her. Don't think she has a snowball's chance in Hell. Far too polarizing and the Repubs will pull out all the negatives they've got.
I'm hoping an exciting dark horse will emerge that I can back. I think Al Gore has actually done a "Nixon" and sort of come back from the grave to be interesting again, but the jury's still out on that.
I have to agree with Charles on Hillary. I wouldnt mind a female Prez but she aint gonna be it!
Gore, he didnt learn from Bob Dole, you have show your relaxed and fun side BEFORE the election is over. I fear the American people will always see him as a stiff.
Who ever it will be is gonna have to have some kind of janitorial experience in their past! There gonna be a LOT of cleaning up to do no matter who is elected!
-russell
I totally understand the points made about Hillary. She does have an uphill battle ahead of her if she is to overcome the negatives that will get thrown at her. But Bush was certainly a polarizing figure himself. Look at the numbers both times he was (s)elected. What a split! And frankly, we've been *hoping* for a dark horse candidate from the Dems for way too long now. The sheriff ain't comin'. Obama has said expilcitly that he will not run, otherwise I'd be right there with you on that one. Republicans have been able to make recent races all about how people "feel" about a candidate rather than their actual accomplishments and capabilities. Trouble is, those "feelings" have been too easy to manipulate from manufactured character, positive and negative. I think (i.e. hope) that Americans are starting to see through the push-polling, cover-ups and moral posturing. Somehow the myth has been propogated that Democrats are all atheist cowards who are too busy getting Oval Office oral and killing babies to be in touch with American "values". Nothing has stopped the Dems from winning but the Dems themselves. All America wants is a champion- someone who will go stick it to the bad guys, spend our taxes fairly, not get us killed in dumb wars, and let us keep our basic rights. Yet, we've managed to narrowly (s)elect the opposite twice. One good guy/gal with backbone can turn it around. My rationale for picking Hillary is that no one else has shown that backbone.
It sure will be a fight, though. But hey, Rocky Balboa is back. Bill Clinton just whipped Fox News' ass on national television. Republicans are losing their "moral" standing at alarming rates- even being abandoned by the evangelicals who are seeing through the crap they've been fed. This could be our round.
Hey. I just realized that the topic du jour was "pick your *ideal* candidate". Oh, ok...
Bill Clinton.
Yeah, I'll go along with Mike. Ideal is Clinton. Dems have the perfect slogan: "Are you better off now than you were six years ago?" No question the country and most of us were doing better under Clinton than Bushie and his boys. Nobody died when Clinton lied.
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Can I vote for Josiah Bartlett? I mean, the post is about "ideal" candidates, right?
I'd definitely vote for the Hillster over any bloodsucking GOP a**hole. And I wouldn't mind hearing a little more from John Edwards, Southern girl that I am.
Barack Obama, Jr.
Not that any politician can be trusted (Democrat or Republican), I think he has a good track record and would be fresh for the country.
I don't think he will get it because his middle name is Hussein.
Good point about Obama's name. But, I have this theory that Americans don't really hate Saddam Hussein all that much. I mean, what did he ever do to us? Neither he nor any Iraqis had anything to do with 9/11. He was a business partner of the U.S. for years. Oh sure, we hear stories about how he "gassed his own people" and such and I am sure they are true. I'm just saying that we don't care. If we did we would not be sitting around while warlords and their illiterate boy-troops raped women and little girls in Darfur with pieces of wood so they can't procreate.
If anyone pokes at Barak Obama's name it will be because it sounds "a bit suspiciously like 'Osama', ya know".
Obama has more trouble than his name difficulties. I think opposition will trot out too little experience and not seasoned enough accustions. I think they will also play a subtle race-card.
Personally, given the map of red-blue states and their hot-button issues, I truly don't think that America is yet grown up enough to elect either a black president or a woman president. I once thought Colin Powell had a good chance to break that barrier, but I now think he's been tainted by the being a part of the Bush incompetence, despite his attempts to distance himself from it lately. Trouble is he didn't speak out or resign and then speak out when it actually counted.
Like Missy, I'd like to see more of Edwards though he suffers from the same "not experienced enough" rap that Obama does.
If Opera ever became president I would personally head the revolution and bring about her downfall!
And yes, Barak is not running, but this about who you would LIKE to see. Right?
OOPS!
Thats OPRAH! not opera,
"I truly don't think that America is yet grown up enough to elect either a black president or a woman president..."
Chuck, as usual you hit the nail on the head. We're talking about a country who has only ever let ONE Catholic in the oval office, and yet we think there's a chance that a woman or an African American (with an Arabic sounding name) is gonna win?
I, too, would like to voice my support for Abe Lincoln...and I think Opera would make a fine President, but only if Ballet was his running mate....
Oprah is good. I just can't handle the beady-eyed-rodent-in a cowboy hat
That's my image of GW
Art Bell. Straight up, yo. Turn the White House into a trailer in the middle of the New Mexico desert and search for intelligent life among the stars from there. Because we know there isn't much down here.
The only way Barack could carry Alabama was if he pulled a Michael Jackson (i.e. turned white).
I think a lot of the judgment calls about what voters would do are largely based on who has been turning out to vote *lately* - (enough evangelicals to vote Bush in a second time). If the stay-at-home folks were to get a whiff of someone worth voting for, they might just do it. I think Obama's biggest plus is what we have been listing as his minus: his "inexperienced" status also qualifies him as "uncorrupted" and "fresh". Also, I think it is a huge mistake to think that the GOP has enough clout to actually stop a candidate that the people prefer. There ain't THAT many evangelicals out there. They couldn't stop Bill Clinton back in the day. And if we wanted a Clinton/Obama ticket in '08 they couldn't stop that either. We really need to stop attributing that much power to these thugs. They are organized and ruthless, but they are not legion. Their ace-in-the-hole for a while has been the so-called "war on terror" and the perception that they have a monopoly on handling that. That perception is quickly fading as we see more dead US soldiers, no end in sight in Iraq, bin Laden still laughing at us, etc.
I say we run Clinton/Obama and dare them to stop us. I like McCain to a certain degree, but his biggest weakness is his party nowadays.
I used to like McCain, because I thought he was honest and uncompromising where it counted. But I was wrong. He's sucked up to Falwell and the whole Religious Radical Right and he caved utterly on the terrorism bill. He's flipped and flopped in order to position himself for a Presidential run and "adjusted" his principles and convictions to do so.
I'll vote for the first Republican who stands up and says, "My party is an embarrassment! They have abandoned their core principles to pander to special interest groups. When they return to being the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt or, Hell, even Nixon or Goldwater, I'll be proud to call myself a Republican again. but right now I'm ashamed. We all back an arrogant, ignorant incompetent who has surrounded himself with arrogant, evil incompetents."
I was an unapologetic supporter of GW Bush after 9/11 and of the Iraq invasion. I watched and listened to every news report. I thought Colin Powell was proof positive that this administration was on the level. The only thing that turned me off to George Bush was George Bush. I understand (though I vehemently disagree with) the Neo-Con core in this White House (Wolfowitz, et al). I think they at least have an ideology that they believe in and see clearly what must be done to follow it. Bush does not strike me that way at all. Someone else is playing the tune. He's just dancin'. And poorly.
Hello CLONIANS! CALLING ALL DIVAS!!!
I will be making an overnight appearance in Lex Vegas on Oct. 28.
I will be at Keeneland on Saturday the 28th from about 2 0n...I will be in the general mix...
Come join me, drink bourbon, enjoy the horses and the scenery and the fall air. Maybe place a bet or 2 and win!! I'd love to see you all!
Missy, Rick, Chuck (let's finally meet!) Pete, Tuttle and Mrs. Tuttle, Adam, Shayne, Josh, X and Mrs. X and Little X, Russell,
I know I missed a few folks..but EVERYBODY COME!!!!
Mike, Bush got a lot of good PR and backing after 9/11, but what's neglected in that whole patriotic furor is that George Bush's actions in the aftermath of that vicious attack were what ANY sitting president would have done!
Except ANY sitting president wouldn't have sat there for seven minutes reading a children's book after learning America had been attacked and wouldn't have flown around aimlessly for several hours in an airplane before making an appearance and responding to the tragedy.
And ANY sitting president would have stayed on point in Afghanistan and after Bin Laden, the actual perpetrator of the act, instead of trying to divert attention and resources in some silly, cynical grudge match against a rather ineffective Sadam Hussein.
We had the whole world's backing, sympathy, and blessing after 9/11. Even our enemies weren't going to buck us on that one. And Bush and his neo-cons squandered that good will and have made us one of the most hated countries in the world, even among our oldest allies in Europe...Inexplicably, Tony Blair committed political suicide because of his tying in with Bush (I was in England the day we went to war with Iraq...the British people think Bush is a joke and that we're morons for re-electing such a transparent numbskull).
My one pre-requisite for voting for anybody for president is that he be smarter than me! It's so painfully obvious that Bush doesn't pass that simple litmus test.
laurie, I will be in a show that day...and thus no imbibing, nor even wearing this old geezer carcass out with a day of frivolty. I must preserve what energy I have so that I may "sparkle" onstage that night! Now after the show, let the Bacchinalian rites begin!...oooh, but there is that matinee the next day! It's a bitch getting old...
Josh B-
If you're lurking anywhere, give me a call at the office at 246-6672
It's Wed afternoon, btw...
I will be there in 9 days....
tick tock
Come to Keeneland...
:-)
Pete & Chuck: Great job today my friends. Thoroughly enjoyed the show and your performances. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Gene Arkle.
Laurie Lou: my little pumkin spice cake....I'll be in NYC on the 28th. The thought of not seeing you makes my heart ache!!! On the evening of the 28th I'll be seeing Blythe Danner as Violet Veneble in Williams' Suddenly Last Summer. I CANNOT WAIT!!!!
Tim, just got your message.
Laurie, I hate Keeneland but I will come just to make up for the times I have missed you. Let me know what time you will be there.
Everyone else come to Comedy Off Broadway tonight (8 oclock) for The Hope Center Benefit.
-JB
Laurie,
I have to work from 9 to 5 on Saturday. If you're out and about before you go to the track, stop by Decoratifs for an early preview of our Holiday Open House. It's a freaking wonderland.
Chuck, Carmen, Pete, and all, enjoyed Underpants on Sunday afternoon. Can't say I adored the script, but I admired your work in it. Congrats!
Did y'all see that Obama is now thinking about thinking about considering a run for the presidency?
Sweeet JB!
Bring friends..it will be funnier and funner (Aren't you glad I am an English teacher) Plus, we will be in the general masses so....people with kids...could be cool for u too.
I think I 'll be there around noon....so coming at 1:30 or 2 would be safe and not keep you there long.
Thanks Missy J- I'll try to stop by.
Laurie,
May have to miss you this time, as we have a party to go to that afternoon (all of Logan's little friends at a Halloween gathering) but I'll be there in spirit!
Lou,
I've got shows to perform at 11:30, 1:30, and 3:30 in Frankfort. And then rehearsal from 4:30-5:45 in Lexington. Then another performance again at 8:00pm in Winchester. Maybe see you in the evening? Or next time.
We miss you. But that is a given.
Tim, I went to www.kentuckytheatre.org and really couldn't find much info about the event itself, just links to access registration forms. Could you fill me in, either here or privately, if you don't want to take up the space here.
The web address has been changed. Try www.theatreky.org
There STILL isn't much up there (unfortunately!) but you should see a registration form and some event info.
My next posting (hopefully later today) will have more KTA info in it.
Laurie,
text me where you are at 2 o'clock at 859-361-1709 so we can meet up at keeneland.
-JB
isnt it time for a new topic?
-russell
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