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Tennessee Williams: His
Spirit & Work Alive in P-Town |
"My
first experience with the work of Tennessee Williams
occurred at age eight in 1960, at The Flor-Ala
(Florida/Alabama) Drive In Theater in Shalimar Florida
just off Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach" [read]>>
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A New Path |
"This photograph was
taken at the ruins of 1925 Dartmouth, the site of my beloved
Sierra Paloma, a Queen Ann Victorian that was the first house built in the town
of my birth, Bessemer Alabama." [read]>>
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Holiday
Disaster |
"Saturday morning
December 13, 2008 was not a good day for me in terms of material
loss, but a glorious day in terms of what is truly important on a
spiritual level." [read]>>
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Sir Nigel Says Goodbye |
"In 2002, Jeffrey Jones and I
fetched Nigel from Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica and
drove, top down Santa Monica Boulevard to Ivy at The Beach and,
as in many a too perfect day, there came fresh disaster." [read]>>
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Getting There Was More Fun
Than When I Got There... |
"My family bought their first television the week
I was born. Being brought up with as many as a dozen
or so foster children or relatives who were down on their luck,
I quickly
noticed that BOX could make everyone sit down and laugh with Lucy or cry with Playhouse 90." [read]>>
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Having
My Engine Rebuilt |
"Having
gone well past "chubby" sometime in the 1990's it
was becoming serious that I do something about my weight. Who
wants a heart attack? Who wants diabetes? Who wants to go in
front of a camera when you're tipping the scales at 350? I had
taken the "fat man" as far as I was willing in terms
of the movies.'"
[read]>>>
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First
Trip To Fabdens |
"Glenn's trip to
London seems to have been a magical and inspirational journey
indeed. "Jeffrey had to bow out at the last moment because of
work so it was just my dear friend Jean Lickson and I that made
the opening of Sir Nigel's KING LEER at The Barbican Theater in
London." [read]>>
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When
Dressing As A Women Always Wear Sensible Shoes |
"I
was thrilled with the opportunity to portray such a dynamic
and exotic personality ...Somewhat less thrilled was my agent
at the time. 'What do you mean you're playing a dead lesbian
writer? I've been hired to sell you as a character man.'"
[read]>>>
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California
Dreamin' |
"I
began to day dream that 'The Mamas and The Papas' and I were
the best of friends. That I would someday move to California
and go to all of their concerts for free and I would give them
all tickets to my movies. This fantasy sustained me and held
at bay a deep loneliness."
[read]>>
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Southern Baptist Sissy |
"Who would have ever
dreamed they'd write us a play? I took over the role of
"Peanut," an alcoholic, homosexual, former Southern Baptist for
six performances of Del Shores' SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES at The
Zephyr Theater in Hollywood in June 2001."[read]>>
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