Equity wins silver in Houston April 22, 2008
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Above: Marie Dressler (foreground) and chorus girls from the Ziegfeld Follies picketing on Broadway, 1919.
My original screenplay Equity has been awarded a Silver Remi for Best Dramatic Screenplay at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
Dinner at Eight January 3, 2008
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Marie Dressler, as Carlotta Vance, gives what may be the greatest doubletake in the history of American cinema.
He was the man who owned Broadway (second of two posts) December 16, 2007
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What does Labor Day mean to you? September 3, 2007
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“That’s what a union is. One.” March 4, 2007
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Eighty-eight years later February 12, 2007
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My screenplay Equity is about the blacklisting and retribution that faced actors who struck the Broadway theater managers in 1919 in support of the Actors Equity Association.
Gee, I’m sure glad that kind of thing doesn’t happen any more …
A working class hero is something to be January 26, 2007
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The man who owned Broadway (second of two posts) October 22, 2006
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“That’s what a union is. One.” August 21, 2006
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The man who owned Broadway (second of two posts) July 16, 2006
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