> Deryl Carroll    

    Deryl Carroll is my oldest and dearest friend. We met at a wonderfully strange and decadent party in a Pinson, Alabama trailer park during the summer of 1972. We had both dropped acid (the 60's hit rural Alabama that summer) and come from different cities to party with this insane group of wannabe hippies in this tiny mobile home in the middle of absolute nowhere. We were DRAMA Majors (in every sense) from different Alabama Universities and I must say it's hard to believe that trailer in the woods was able to contain our collective mad personalities at all, much less on heavy hallucinogenics. The mingling of our madness was forged that night and after flights hither and yon we both ended up in Hollywood in the late 70's where we have remained. We live just miles apart, have a running dialogue via the telephone and in the last year Deryl has become my primary acting coach. He helped me land my last movie (More Dogs Than Bones) and coached me throughout the shoot. He has a gift with actors and is in touch with his own humanity in a way that cuts through the bull shit and goes for the heart in the craft. He is becoming more and more in demand as a private coach as well as teaching full time with The Ivana Chubbuck Studios here in Los Angeles. Deryl made his film debut with Madonna in "Who's That Girl" and had a ten year run with Hollywood's Legendary Groundlings Improv Group.  He is occasionally coaxed into a TV or film appearance but has found his true calling as a teacher. We think we look nothing alike but we are constantly being confused for one another by people who KNOW us. This happens so much that it has become a running joke between the two of us---------half the town still believes we were separated at birth. Our two Mothers have assured us that this is not the case.
 
    When this clock photo was taken on May 12th 1990 Deryl was listening to "Small Town" by Lou Reed and John Cale from their CD in memory of Andy Warhol. If people mistake me for someone else I hope it will always be for this magnificent man.

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