Now, the life of a working actor is crazy, but the reason we do this isn’t. The reason we do this is the most sane thing in the world. Or out of the world. And to illustrate this, I’m going to talk about the Holy Mass. But first. Last week was hell week. In a moment [...]
The problem with the Phineas and Ferb movie Across the Second Dimension is that it’s too spectacular. Phineas and Ferb (my favorite TV show next to Judge Judy and The Journey Home) is brilliant for many reasons, but these are generally small reasons – humorous moments that are not overdone, a variety of characters that are [...]
(Takes deep breath) On Friday, July 22, my actress Maria Romine and I drove the 9 1/2 hours from St. Louis to Athens, Georgia, where on Saturday I gave a presentation on the show business of writing, and where I walked in a nearby cemetery in 110 degree heat index learning my lines for some of [...]
If God exists, then He is real. In fact, He is that which is Most Real. He is Ultimate Reality. He is more real than we are, for our reality is a participation in His. Indeed, every human being communicates with other human beings in an attempt to discover and to share That which is Real. [...]
I have an article published in the Distributist Review this week. If you wander what usury is, what the Church teaches on it, how it is ruining our economy, and how Christians should respond to it, click here!
I had promised a post on the Actor as Priest, but before we get to that, let's talk for a minute about the vulnerability of acting - or the Actor as Child. Actors wear masks and costumes, but in some ways they're quite naked on stage. Especially in an emotionally demanding role, an actor puts a [...]
A friend of mine was living in Chicago and he was miserable. Not because of the Cubs. And not because of toll booths. And not because of the winters! He was miserable because he wasn't famous. He was slaving away auditioning everywhere and doing some sort of comedy improv thing on local access cable TV and [...]
Joan Roberts (left) and Celeste Holm backstage during the first Broadway run of "Oklahoma". They are the two surviving cast members. Joan is soon to be 93; Celeste is 94. We sat there with my friend Joan Roberts, who played Laurey in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma, eating lunch in a Long Island restaurant. She [...]
The Fraternity of St. Genesius, in its wisdom, has its members pray an additional mystery of the Rosary every day, one of what I would call the Apocalyptic Mysteries (mysteries of hidden things revealed), in this case the Mystery of the Hidden Life of Jesus. Why, I often wondered, would Actors and those who pray for [...]
I am supposed to be in the midst of blogging about Acting and the Faith, and maybe I am, but I'm not so sure. Maybe I'm not ... but then again, maybe I am. Today we learned more of the truth about Fr. Corapi's fall from grace from his superior at SOLT. I originally suspected when [...]
