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Julie Andrews is going to live forever and nobody can convince me otherwise.
me about myself: interesting concept but poor execution!
30 DAY / WEEK WRITING CHALLENGE
by @teamcaptains // A new writing challenge for 2016 (challenges from previous years here & here). I’ve linked to some possibly unfamiliar terms, and prompts on days numbered a multiple of five may be a bit more challenging. Tag your pieces for this challenge with #nosebleedclub please!
1. First chapter/scene of a novel that doesn’t exist yet. 2. Poem about innocence. 3. Short essay on friend group dynamics. 4. Plant/flower-themed poem. 5. First scene of a screenplay that doesn’t exist yet. 6. Cinquain. 7. Scene that’s almost entirely dialogue. 8. Personal essay on adolescence. 9. Political poem. 10. Shakespearian sonnet. 11. Poem focused on a single color. 12. Prose about colonization. 13. Discuss your year so far. 14. Poem about heavenly beings. 15. Terza Rima. 16. Poem about something you want to remember forever. 17. Create an original character and write about them. 18. Poem about small lifeforms. 19. Ars Poetica. 20. Poem of at least eight lines in blank verse. 21. Essay about recovery. 22. Poem about something your society views as taboo. 23. Discuss violence. 24. Prose poem about a holy figure. 25. Haiku. 26. Scene that takes place in a foreign country at dusk. 27. Prose describing your favorite place. 28. Poem about morning. 29. Poem about triumph. 30. Poem composed of heroic couplets.
Julie Andrews
Do you ever feel like you’re past the “fangirl” stage to the “fanmom” stage? Like you just look at your fave like “hey, you eating well? You taking care of yourself? Do you need some snacks for the award show, here I have some leftover brisket, you’ll need some protein”
but its funny how we hate ourselves but then we see other people hating themselves and we’re like nO NO DONT DO THAT NO
A leggy Ginger Rogers in Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934).
Lauren Bacall
- You read aloud from your diary and you read that: Almost every morning, when I go - this is in 1963 - Almost every morning, when I go into the studio for work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table. Now, when you’re treated like that - like a star - how do you not turn into a monster? Because you’ve had the most lovely reputation. You’ve never become a diva but you could have so easily?
- Well, the work is hard. It’s really hard.
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History
Hi there. It’s been a long while since I’ve taken to this blog to actually write something, but given the events of the last couple of weeks, it would be remiss of me not to.
As many of you know, I am currently working on a Broadway musical, Allegiance, alongside actor, activist, co-Tumblr blogger and all-around badass George Takei. At the intermission of a performance of In the Heights on Broadway, he spoke with Allegiance co-creators Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione on the helplessness felt by his own father during the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2. That was the genesis of what has become our show. I guess that means Lin-Manuel Miranda can watch us whenever the heck he wants (I don’t think we can thank him enough).
In 2009, when I became involved with Allegiance, never did I fathom that our show would become as politically and historically relevant as it is proving to be today. I thought, this would be something of a history lesson, showing one family’s fortitude in the midst of harrowing circumstances in this shameful chapter of American history. 120,000 Japanese-Americans, majority of them American citizens, had their constitutional rights egregiously violated. At gunpoint, they were rounded up taking only what they could physically carry. This was the case with George’s family. His mother with tears streaming down her face, carried the youngest child in one arm and a filled-to-capacity duffel bag in the other, and wearing many layers of clothes. There was a massive land grab. Property, businesses and income were taken. Homes and belongings were sold for pennies on the dollar. And when these Americans were released from the camps, they were each only given a bus ticket and $25. Whoops.
When I learned about this dark and embarrassing chapter, of history, I thought that there would be no way… no bleeping way this would or could ever happen again. This was America. Lady Liberty herself welcomes the tired, poor, huddled masses, raising her torch high with the promise of a better life. America, where all men were considered equal, and all citizens of this country were protected under the constitution.
Well, it’s starting to look like some people are more equal than others.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, every Japanese-American was looked upon with suspicion. What was once this peaceful community that bore the same face as that of the enemy suddenly became the enemy. The old man playing hanafuda (a Japanese card game) was suddenly a spy. The sweet lady hanging laundry was now plotting against Americans.
There was political rhetoric hurled against the Japanese-Americans. The governor of Kansas declared that no Japanese-American was welcome in his state, and the governor of Wyoming threatened that any Japanese-American that made it to his state would be found hanging from every pine tree (interesting… Heart Mountain, where much of Allegiance takes place, is in Wyoming).
Never again, I thought. There was no bleeping way this kind of blatant racism and political rhetoric would ever see the light of day. Not in America, and certainly not in 2015.
All Boy, was I ever wrong.
I once naively thought Allegiance would be escapist art, harkening back to a time long ago and far away, taking us – the actors and the audience – on a journey to a place in time that we would never dream of seeing in our lifetimes. But we were wrong.
That wasn’t lost on me at one performance of Allegiance. As I looked across the Kimura kitchen table to co-stars Chris Nomura and George Takei and looked up at Telly Leung, it dawned on me that this family could’ve been one from Lebanon or Pakistan or Mexico, listening to the president declare war on their homeland. “This will not be good for us. We must keep our heads down.”
As the play went on, more lines and lyrics began to ring like a death knell. “We look like enemy, they see disloyal. They talk of liberty? All empty words. They promise justice for all people? Look around! We are dirt upon the ground.” That’s just from one song, titled Allegiance.
Allegiance is no longer a journey back in time to somewhere now far removed. It is a searing look into what actually happens when fear and racism are fed.
Take a look at what’s happening now. We can see the signs. It’s happening again. The racist rhetoric? The fear? The lack of political leadership? Take a good, hard look. This is what happens when we bury all that is shameful in history.
We are doomed to repeat it.
Julie sits down with Tim Gilbert in Sydney Australia.
Audrey Hepburn, by Antony Beauchamp, 1955
Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall. 1962.
Day 2: My Fair Lady (1956)
My Fair Lady (1956)
Julie and Alan Jay Lerner Premiere Camelot 1960
Put Helen Mirren in there and the universe will implode with over perfection
Just ask dear.
PUT JUDI DENCH THERE. FUCKING DO IT. I LOVE YOU LOLA
This starts to looks like “The Last Supper”
Here is Maggie. You’re welcome.