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Linda Weinrib Interview!
Happy post Halloween everybody!
Today we're interviewing Blimpy's pill popping mom Linda, played by the lovely Linda Weinrib! Linda's credits include appearances on The Office and IFC's The Birthday Boys. Here she is, looking all kinds of adorable.
Ivory Floyd: What led you to Bozos in the first place?
Linda Weinrib: What led me to Bozos in the first place was a posting for the role of Blimpy's Mom on LA Casting. I felt that I could portray her very well and decided to submit myself for the role, then I auditioned and booked it.
IF: You come from a family of entertainers, can you tell us a little more about them?
LW: My father, the late Lennie Weinrib was a famous character actor on TV sitcoms in the 60's, 70's, 80's and worked as one of the busiest men in Voice Over animation and commercials.
He worked on the Dick Van Dyke Show, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Twighlight Zone and many more. In animation, he worked for 30 years for Hanna Barbara doing most of the voice work on all their cartoons. Disney and Dic hired him as well.
My mother worked on the movie The Greatest Story Ever Told and others. Growing up in my family was always entertaining! I started working in show business at the age of 5 on the Danny Kaye SHow and almost got cast in The Sound of Music too!
IF: Being a mother yourself, what are some of the differences between you and your character?
LW: Being a mother myself I felt some of the character's personality was a little similar to myself. With my own children I can be over protective and try to tell them what the correct way to do things is. I also felt that her trying to control the situation is something I would have done also.
On the other hand, if they wanted to try new hobbies or activities, I would let them do it and decide if it was what hey really wanted to do or not. In Bozos, I don't want my son to be a clown; he is better than that!
IF: How does this role compare to your previous work?
LW: This role compares to other work I have done where I play a woman who is totally misunderstood and she drinks to cover up her insecurity and thinks she can control the situation in her family. I haven't really done a role like this before, but I enjoyed it. She is not the type of mom I have played before and it was a nice change to do this type of woman.
IF: What was your favorite moment while filming?
LW: My favorite moment while filming was when we had our family intervention with our son (Blimpy) who clearly knows what he wants to do and wont' listen to us no matter what we tell him.
The irony of the situation is that the dad and mom think they are in control, yet their daughter is in the house having sex with our son's friend and we are totally focused on our son and not paying attention to our daughter. It's a very funny scene and I know the audience will love it.
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For Halloween this year, I went as Black Jesus. My best friend (left) was a hot dog.
Old Man at a bar - "You know you're going to Hell, right?"
Me - "That's cool, all my friends will be there!"
- Ivory Floyd
Why bold policies for family planning are needed now
Potts M, Weinrib R, Campbell M. Contraception. 2013 Apr;87(4):393-5. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2013.01.001. Epub 2013 Jan 9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23410716
Excerpt
The philosophy that the most transformative thing we can do is to give people access to family planning is also a philosophy of listening to what women want, not telling them what to do. It is lowering the TFR in a human rights framework. It is offering voluntary family planning even in low-resource settings where reducing average family size is one prerequisite for development. It is an important shift away from some of the misleading assertions made by advocates after the 1994 Cairo Conference that "fertility decline was a consequence of the developmental process and not a catalyst, and that the only way to insure its occurrence was by the indirect route of prompting development." This belief, which is still influential among some economists and some women's advocacy groups, is unrealistic and counterproductive as the example the Sahel demonstrates.