NEW YORK HEADSHOTS SHOOT

From May 31, 2018

Thursday

Headshots shoot with Doug Gorenstein (3rd time.) Sarah did hair and make-up. Sam along.

1st time with Doug in Michigan - he came over and shot actors. Simple. Good. About 10 years ago.

Then 4 1/2 years ago - January in NYC - garment district. Now same building, different studio.

Doug from Michigan - talked hockey with Sam. Funny how we can all relate some how.

He was set photographer on Celebrity Apprentice - yes, our current Prez - then and now, the same.

Walked after back to hotel. Same as last year - Marriott Fairfield, CPW.

Jenny (step-bonus-daughter) came and we ordered pizza and salad to room.

Oh, saw Sponge Bob the Musical matinee. Sam's school band teacher knows the conductor/musical director.

Friday

Took Sam to Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and dinner with cousin Zach and Jenni. Found ancestor's name in computer database.

Saturday

At Jenni and Dan's (husband/Long Island.) I could live in New York. 1 bedroom, upper west side. I could do that. There's something about walking everywhere, looking and making beauty in smaller moments.

And the culture.

And the opportunities.

I really could BE here. Yes.

From Set Tuesday (the I See You Film)

Greg Williams and I both know Donna Biscoe. He's been her husband on about 4 films. And, Chicago. He and Bruce A. Young were in Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare Rep's (now Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) 1st play - my stage combat class in college (Roosevelt University) went to see Bruce (our teacher) in it. Greg was on stage at them all - Goodman, Northlight, Wisdom Bridge - all the Equity houses where I dreamed of working.

All I wanted then was to be a union working actor - like the Mockus's (Tony Mockus, Sr. and Jr.) - Petrea Burchard (Sandel) - Paula Scrafano and John Reeger - Barbara Robertson - Bruce.

Greg told a great story about John Reeger.  He stutters. Call his house and he puts his kids on - but NEVER, not once saw him miss a word on stage!

Maybe if I'd set my sights higher then - want to be a Star - I would have settled around Chicago and the Equity theatre sooner. Or NYC. Instead of living immediately with boyfriends and fiancees - married - waiting tables.

I wasn't selfish enough. Confident enough. Secure in my sense of self and being alone. ("And you give yourself away. And you give yourself away. And you give, and you give, and you give..." - U2, With or Without You.)

Take the money and run.

Sense of self.

Let it breathe. Let it be. "If you build it they will come."

Casting from Instagram accounts now - Followers.

I want to build a different account.

I want to shopping. Trainers. Pink jeans. Summer pull-on sweater. For Sam, jacket.

Audiobook bodice ripper - Sweet Tempest - and maybe booked Nationwide CAT II VO's, auditioned for 2 today - we flew out and did 3rd Thursday on Garage Band (didn't book.)

Thanks to Director (offer to help promote film locally or will fly out.) Go through 2nd AD - text (or agent/website.)

2 books last week. Whisper Me This and Hollywood Heir. More steamy romances from Brilliance (Audio.)

Tuesday

Flight home from NY. 235 headshot images to narrow down.

Sam 1st baseball game tonight.

Following Week

Watched taped Tony's this morning and saw Jeff and Kathleen (Daniels) in audience. I'll forever get excite seeing people I know on screen!

tcl
8/30/18

TO LONDON

(This is from a handwritten journal September 15, 2016.)

THURSDAY

8-something U.K. time - landing London Heathrow.

Surprisingly, I'm not braindead.

Yesterday: Banana, 1/2 waffle, tangerine, grapes, grapes (not a typo -I'd written it twice) apple, cheese stick, granola.  Lots water. 10:30 meal plane - pasta/cheese, fruit, roll, salad and breakfast 2:30/7:30, yogurt, water, fruiT.

Laxative, vitamins, aspirin (2 muscle relaxers yesterday) oh, and glass wine.

Slept not great. Curled on seats. Uncomfortable on joints.

Charlotte Rampling genius 45 YEARS.

AFTERNOON

Menopause and London during a heatwave go together about as well as peanut butter and thumbtacks.

FRIDAY

(Pre-notes on getting around before leaving flat.)

Tower Pier (overhead Shoreditch to DLR Shadweel to Tower Hill to Tower Pier. Ferry to Westminster and Big Ben, Parliament, Victoria Embankment, cross Bridge Street (left to) entrance on Abdington Street, cross to Westminster Abbey.

12:30 Mass.

Walking tour from Big Ben/Parliament to Trafalgar Square:

Start Westminster Bridge - End Trafalgar Square:

National Galleries
National Portrait Gallery
Tea at National Gallery
Embankment Pier ferry back or Leicester Square Station
Cranborn and Charing, cross road at Leicester Square, north from National Gallery up Charing Cross Road OR Embankment Pier from Trafalgar square, Northumberland to Thames River and Victoria Embankment, turn left (pass tube station and walk east.)

Stumbled upon Horse Guard Inspection at Buckingham Palace. Swans and geese at St. James Park.  Lovely couple from Connecticut at Churchill War Rooms. 13 year-old brown labrador named Ben along White Hall. Cheerful guards posing with tourists at #10 Downing. DJ spinning at Trafalgar Square before tea at National Gallery. Good and damp day.

LATER

Churchill was a redhead. Passionate and a performer. A painter and writer. A romantic ("Clemmie") and lover of dogs. Bull dog - my fave. I think if he were born a woman he'd have gone into acting, like me. The war rooms were excellent.

SATURDAY
Only other notes for rest of week are more transportation notes and the following:

SUNDAY
Tour w/ Jenni (my step-daughter, whom I was staying with in a Shoreditch flat while she was on business.)

Golden Tours UK (use Viator going forward - guess I wasn't impressed.)

Bath, Jane Austen, Stonehenge.

tcl
8/28/18 early evening