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rm20 random facts about me:
1. I have two different high school diplomas, as I spent my last high school semester doing a program through another school but was still enrolled at my school. I suppose I should add the second of those schools to the already ridiculous list in my profile.
2. I got in huge trouble once as a kid when my dad busted me taking communion at a mass my kiddy acting group had performed at. My father is Catholic, but I'm not. MOstly he was upset because it would make my mother (who is Jewish) cry.
3. When I was in third grade I told everyone my middle name was Aurora. Worse, I put A as my middle initial on the bubble sheet for the ERB and caused all sorts of chaos. I don't have a middle name.
4. My mom was my Brownies troop leader once when I was a kid. This was bad. We did Peter Pan as a play and I was merely one of the Lost Boys, my mother said it wouldn't be fair if I got a good part, but I suspect she either had no faith in me or was worried she'd be bullied by the other moms. She only did the job for a year.
5. Of the many stupid acting gigs I have had, my favourite was when I had to writhe around in a pit of calculator tape while dressed as a Tax Nerd. It was for Yahoo! Taxes and we were in Tax Hell. It went on for hours and among othe rhtings we obsessively sharpened pencils, screamed for mercy and beat each other with large calculators. I am so cool.
6. Robert Redford once hit on my mom.
7. I have recurring nightmares about tornados. While I was in one terrible storm once (while camping!) where we saw lots of funnels descend from the main storm cloud, none of them touched down. I have no idea what this is about.
8. I was a teen pageant contestant.
9. Pat Buchanan uses a crappy essay I wrote when I was 20 about the Vietnam Wall on various websites -- without my permission. The battle is ongoing.
10. Veal piccata is my favourite food. Yes, I know I'm going to hell. Little moo!
11. When I was a pre-teen I used to write to celebrities and asked for autographed pictures. Successful acquisitions I recall: Marc Singer (I know, so embarassing, my my best friend and I were obsessed with V) and Sam Neil (who is an utter mensch).
12. I saw all sorts on legends on Broadway as a kid, including: Richard Harris, Jerry Orbach and Peter O'Toole.
13. My Orson Welles obsession comes directly from my mother. She used to read me biographies of him when I was a child. Or rather, excerpts about insane precocious things he did as a child.
14. I am most often told, including by my own family, that I look like dead, ugly famous people. This includes Oscar Wilde and Frida Khalo.
15. I do not have a cold; I have a deviated septum and chronically (and permanently) inflamed sinuses.
16. Sad but true, the first fanfiction I ever wrote was Star Trek (TNG). Let's not talk about it, okay? Ever. Thanks.
17. I went to Stuyvesant because I had a 107 average in Chemistry at Hewitt and thought that's what I wanted to do for a living. Ask my mom. This is not revisionist, post-HP personal history.
18. My parents have this unspeakably hideous single line self-portrait I had to do for art class in 7th grade on their wall.
19. When I was a kid, the pipes in our heaters broke and flooded our apartment with a foot of boiling water. It destroyed all of my mothers water colors, and seveal days later the cabinate that we also used a coffee table in which they were kept had to be hacked open with an axe because the water had made the wood swell. I hid in my parents bedroom and put my hands over my ears and cried, because I anthropomorphized everything and they were _killing_ it.
20. The song My Only Sunshine makes me horribly depressed and uncomfortable for reasons unknown, and I do everything I can to avoid it at all costs.
1. I have two different high school diplomas, as I spent my last high school semester doing a program through another school but was still enrolled at my school. I suppose I should add the second of those schools to the already ridiculous list in my profile.
2. I got in huge trouble once as a kid when my dad busted me taking communion at a mass my kiddy acting group had performed at. My father is Catholic, but I'm not. MOstly he was upset because it would make my mother (who is Jewish) cry.
3. When I was in third grade I told everyone my middle name was Aurora. Worse, I put A as my middle initial on the bubble sheet for the ERB and caused all sorts of chaos. I don't have a middle name.
4. My mom was my Brownies troop leader once when I was a kid. This was bad. We did Peter Pan as a play and I was merely one of the Lost Boys, my mother said it wouldn't be fair if I got a good part, but I suspect she either had no faith in me or was worried she'd be bullied by the other moms. She only did the job for a year.
5. Of the many stupid acting gigs I have had, my favourite was when I had to writhe around in a pit of calculator tape while dressed as a Tax Nerd. It was for Yahoo! Taxes and we were in Tax Hell. It went on for hours and among othe rhtings we obsessively sharpened pencils, screamed for mercy and beat each other with large calculators. I am so cool.
6. Robert Redford once hit on my mom.
7. I have recurring nightmares about tornados. While I was in one terrible storm once (while camping!) where we saw lots of funnels descend from the main storm cloud, none of them touched down. I have no idea what this is about.
8. I was a teen pageant contestant.
9. Pat Buchanan uses a crappy essay I wrote when I was 20 about the Vietnam Wall on various websites -- without my permission. The battle is ongoing.
10. Veal piccata is my favourite food. Yes, I know I'm going to hell. Little moo!
11. When I was a pre-teen I used to write to celebrities and asked for autographed pictures. Successful acquisitions I recall: Marc Singer (I know, so embarassing, my my best friend and I were obsessed with V) and Sam Neil (who is an utter mensch).
12. I saw all sorts on legends on Broadway as a kid, including: Richard Harris, Jerry Orbach and Peter O'Toole.
13. My Orson Welles obsession comes directly from my mother. She used to read me biographies of him when I was a child. Or rather, excerpts about insane precocious things he did as a child.
14. I am most often told, including by my own family, that I look like dead, ugly famous people. This includes Oscar Wilde and Frida Khalo.
15. I do not have a cold; I have a deviated septum and chronically (and permanently) inflamed sinuses.
16. Sad but true, the first fanfiction I ever wrote was Star Trek (TNG). Let's not talk about it, okay? Ever. Thanks.
17. I went to Stuyvesant because I had a 107 average in Chemistry at Hewitt and thought that's what I wanted to do for a living. Ask my mom. This is not revisionist, post-HP personal history.
18. My parents have this unspeakably hideous single line self-portrait I had to do for art class in 7th grade on their wall.
19. When I was a kid, the pipes in our heaters broke and flooded our apartment with a foot of boiling water. It destroyed all of my mothers water colors, and seveal days later the cabinate that we also used a coffee table in which they were kept had to be hacked open with an axe because the water had made the wood swell. I hid in my parents bedroom and put my hands over my ears and cried, because I anthropomorphized everything and they were _killing_ it.
20. The song My Only Sunshine makes me horribly depressed and uncomfortable for reasons unknown, and I do everything I can to avoid it at all costs.
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Date: 2005-09-22 10:27 pm (UTC)All that comes to mind is . . .
Date: 2005-09-22 10:29 pm (UTC)Re: All that comes to mind is . . .
Date: 2005-09-22 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-22 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-22 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-22 10:37 pm (UTC)I just learned he was involved in a presentation of Rime of the Ancient Mariner. *need*
A guide to the better bios would be wonderful. Which films have you seen?
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Date: 2005-09-22 10:40 pm (UTC)His Othello is also really interested. On one hand, it's dated and unwatchable, but it's also the movie he spent his life making. He filmed it in pieces over the course of his life whenever he had the money for another shot. The camera set-ups are beautiful. I think it's also a really role for him to be playing for all sorts of reasons.
Do you know about the theory that he killed The Black Dhalia?
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Date: 2005-09-22 10:46 pm (UTC)Nope, but I can find out.
Magnificient Ambersons isn't on Netflix for some reason, but Third Man's at the top of my queue now.
Ambersons
Date: 2005-09-22 10:47 pm (UTC)Re: Ambersons
Date: 2005-09-22 10:49 pm (UTC)Salon article on the book about the Dahlia thing.