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Victor Warren: Actor, Director, Storyteller

Victor Warren has been acting since he was ten and worked for Universal Studios as a director, camera operator, technical director, announcer and stunt show performer. He has a passion for storytelling and loves what he does. He recently played the role of Stephen Edward Smith in the film Chappaquiddick.

He moved from Los Angeles to the east coast recently but I caught up with him for a brief interview shortly before the movie was released.

Janice: You’ve had a varied career as an actor and director. Which is your favorite activity?

Victor: Whatever I do as an artist, I am first a storyteller. When I’m directing, when I’m producing or acting, it all relates to telling a story.

They are completely different crafts. They are complicated in their own fashion. It’s like saying I like this kid more than the other.

Janice: How did you get the part in Chappaquiddick: Victor: “I slept with...oh wait. No.. I happened to be visiting the Cape and I swung by a casting office I knew about and popped my head in (Continued on page 3)

Clancy Brown, Taylor Nichols, and Victor Warren in Chappaquiddick (2017) Photo by Claire Folger - © 2016 Bridgewater Picture Finance, LLC. All Rights Reserved-Reprinted with permission Editor: Janice Hermsen: janice@lrpnv.com

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Victor Warren: Actor, Director, Storyteller Janice Hermsen...…....…….……...1 The Referral Group, Reno, NV...2 The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner-Book Review John Loranger ……..………..….….3 The Risk of the Single Holocaust Story April Kempler ..……………..……...5 Fish Pun Richard G. Pugh...………..…...…..6 Look What the Book Hound Found………………….……………...8 Elizabeth Regal-Entertainer Brian T. Shirley ........................10 A Gift God Created In You Mike Aloia…………………...........11 The Patriot Post Defenders of Freedom …..…….12 Take the Quiz…….....................13 Quiz Answers..…….….....…..…..16

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The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner

Book Review

Salinger. Among the distinctive traits of his art was an “I Can’t Breathe” is the name of the first story I ever read uncanny ability to put down on paper the everyday speech

by Ring Lardner. The title alone might sound grim but -patterns of ordinary Americans. “The Golden the story itself is hardly that. It Honeymoon”, for example, is told in firstconcerns a well-to-do eighteen year person and begins: ‘Mother says that old girl who is infatuated, off and on, when I start talking I never know when to with several boys. She is staying at an stop … I guess the fact is neither one of inn with her aunt and uncle who are us would be welcome in a Quaker ‘both at least 35 years old and maybe meeting, but as I tell Mother, what did older’, and is keeping a diary to pass God give us tongues for if He didn’t want the time. The diarist records that her we should use them?’ mother does not take seriously her present engagement to a young man However, there is more to Lardner’s named Walter. The mother has fiction than a gift for capturing humorous pointed out that she, the daughter, has forms of speech. He was a very effective been engaged some five times a year story-teller. And though he normally since the age of fourteen but: ‘of steered clear of the high drama of course it really isn’t as bad as that and I Faulkner or Hemingway or Fitzgerald, have really only been really what I call there is often an underlying gravity to his engaged six times altogether…’ stories. An example of this is “Haircut”, which might be his greatest work. The Ring Lardner, sports columnist and first-person observer in this short story is short story writer, was born in a small-town barber nicknamed Whitey Michigan in 1885 and died in 1933. He who is relating a local tragedy to an influenced many writers, perhaps most notably J. D. (Continued on page 7) (Continued from page 1)

the door to say hello and Angela Perry said, “Oh, you’re around?”

And I said, “Well, for a little bit.”

She said, “There might be something. Can you come in next week?”

I was actually flying out the next week, but I didn’t tell her that. I was able to do the audition before I flew out to L.A. I got a call the

following week for a call back. I was back in L.A. so they let me Skype it. The director said he liked it but they wanted an “in person” audition, so I went to a casting office in Los Angeles. John Curran (the director) happened to be in Los Angeles, so I was able to talk to him directly. I waited...but finally got the role.

Janice: That had to feel pretty good.

Victor: Sometimes, getting an acting job is like, “OK...you, you and you, we’re going for pizza. Everyone else can wait here. Someone picks you and there’s a strange thing that you have in the back of your mind, that it’s going to get taken away. Actors deal with so much rejection.

It’s not a conscious thing. I’ve worked on not having that in my head.

Until I flew back out and shot it, until it was finished, it’s like ok, I did it.

Janice: Do you know what prompted them to make the movie?

Victor: The script had been around for a while. They (the writers) were (Continued on page 4)

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Victor: Well, I did smoke. And I picked back up on it again when I was working on it. Every day I’d smoke one cigarette. During the making of it, I just had a cigarette in my mouth all the time. I didn’t smoke it but I just had it all the time.

Janice: So you didn’t go back to smoking.

Victor: No. And the director said, “Yeah, I thought you were going to go back to smoking. I’m going to get a lawsuit against me.” They gave me like a clove cigarette while we were shooting. They were not tobacco.

“Acting with smoke.”

Janice: What kind of process did you go through to prepare for the role?

interested in Ted Kennedy but didn’t have any idea about Chappaquiddick at all, I mean AT ALL! They did research based on interviews that were originally sealed.

Victor: I did a lot of research on him. A lot of pictures and anything I could find on him. There was some stuff written on him. There wasn’t a lot. I just did research to find out who this guy was and where he came from. And from other stuff that I layered. He was a religious man. His relationship with Jean (his wife). He wasn’t a lawyer. He got pulled into the family by Joe Kennedy when he was in his late 20s. He worked with his father in Manhattan in an investment group, They would have to control, I think the Kennedy’s only had $100 million dollars. I think he created the hidden trusts for the family. And in later years, he continued doing all that. He also was part of JFK’s campaign. There were pictures of him in that famous party where Marilyn Monroe was and he basically was Joe’s fixit guy. John F. Kennedy called him his silent oarsman. So I had this idea of who this guy was. I also felt he really loved John and would do anything for him. After he was killed he still felt a loyalty to the family and “what would John do” and “how would John feel”. As an actor, you just layer and layer and layer and layer and then you act.

Janice: Did politics get bantered around on the set?

Janice: Did you enjoy doing the film? Did you have fun? Was it intense?

Victor: All the stars wanted to tell the story and shed some light on the events. John, the director, was very clear that, “We’re not taking sides, we’re not making it to sensationalize it.” He just wanted to state all the facts. Just telling the story from what the script was based on. The right -wing party has really embraced the movie. The left has just been very quiet about it. Supposedly Barry Allen said he was approached by people who didn’t want this film to come out. When he left the meeting, he doubled the budget for publicity.

Victor: Oh it was a gift. Getting to spend 2 or 3 weeks to do what you love and get paid money for it. John Curran kept giving me more lines.

It was nice in the fact that he did a lot of master shots or just one take shots and scenes. He several times said, “Victor take this line and then do this too”. I felt very much like I did a friggin’ good job and it wasn’t easy. Once, it was a paragraph and he gave it to me and said, “Ok, let’s go.” It was very challenging. I love that part of it. It’s interesting in the film, I have a lot of lines but I was not a favored character. You don’t always see me, I don’t get the coverage at all, so that’s part of it. It was great. I felt challenged and validated. This is the craft, this is what I’m doing, I get to swim in the ocean with the boys.

Janice: The character that you played, Stephen Edward Smith, was a long- time smoker. Do you share his vice?

Janice: So what’s on the horizon now?

Victor: I moved back to the East coast. I had a call back on a movie yesterday. Again, in this market, I have a better opportunity. I’m being called for a role. In Los Angeles, I’d get a line here, a line there...maybe?? A guest star? There’s stuff happening here in Boston.

Got a car, got a doctor, you know…

Janice: Will you be directing any more movies? I know you did Hot recently.

Victor: Yeah, I’m working on polishing another script of mine. I’m going (Continued on page 9) Copyright, 2015-2018, LeRue Press. No part of this publication may be copied or reprinted without permission from LeRue Press (LRP).

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April Kempler With a multitude of Holocaust narratives to choose from it could be easy to think we understand who the Holocaust survivor is. This misunderstanding might block our thinking and shut out any other stories about the Holocaust because perhaps it is controversial at its core. One such story is from the memoir The Altered I. This is the true life account of my father-in-law Joseph Kempler.

Although he survived six different concentration camps throughout Poland and Austria, from the ages of 14 to 17, he is not the hero of his own story. There are accounts written about his growing up Jewish and many details about the brutal camp life.

There is even a rare account of what living in a Displaced Persons Camp was like after Liberation.

His memoir is controversial right at the start, from the front cover, which illustrates a bold, black swastika hanging above a focused blue eye, to the last several chapters of the book when there are puzzling religious changes and goals: hence the title, The Altered I. Joseph’s memoir is not the typical or familiar Holocaust story. For this reason a reader might be shocked, taken aback, offended and even disenchanted by the story as it unfolds.

Many people were targets of the Nazis and their regime. Among these were the Roma, the Intelligencia, homosexuals, and people with disabilities, Poles, Slavs, and other such hated groups. The Altered I, however, touches on another group of victims.

The Risk of the Single Holocaust Story These people were peace loving, and although they resisted the Nazis they did so without weapons.

They were known as Bibelforscher. They were Bible students, also known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.

This group becomes the hero of Joseph’s narrative, which may come as a shock to the reader who is expecting another type of Holocaust story.

Joseph Kempler The Altered I Holocaust Survivor is one man’s story of survival and why he made the decisions he did in order to endure the brutality he was subjected to. It is a story of faith lost and faith regained. This account might not fit into the stereotypical Holocaust (Continued on page 14)

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Richard G. Pugh Years ago the Las Vegas Mirage hotel hired a skilled keeper of the dolphins, a man named Elvis McGillis, because this show was becoming a major attraction at this luxury property.

Elvis loved each of his animals and taught them complicated tricks and human like gestures perhaps stretching the concept of anthropomorphism to the limits.

He experimented with a variety of diets also and noted that his animals had a keen interest in eating sea gulls. Yep, they loved to eat seagulls.

Over a period of time, many years in fact he learned that a steady diet of these birds could actually extend their lives. This made him very happy and he spent considerable time at Lake Mead capturing these wily birds for his dolphins.

One day after visiting the lake and bagging several sea gulls, he was returning to the Hotel and right there in the middle of his path to the pool was a sleeping lion. Being very careful not to awaken

Dolphins on the Strip

this beast, he carefully stepped over him and went to the pool where the dolphins were waiting.

As soon as he arrived at the pool two Las Vegas Metropolitan police officers arrested him and hauled him off to jail. When asked what the charge was. One policeman said, “You, sir, are under arrest for violating the MANN ACT…”Transporting Gulls across a staid lion for immortal Porpoises” Writer’s note: The Mann Act was signed into law in 1910 to prevent the transporting of persons across state lines for immoral purposes.

After coming to Reno from Charleston, S.C. in 1973 to accept the position of CEO of the Nevada State Medical Association and serving as Director of Physician Relations at Washoe Medical Center for two years, Pugh retired in 1990.

Later he helped establish Health Access Washoe County (HAWC) and served as Board Member and President for several years. He has served as Adjunct Clinical Instructor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and authored four books through the History of Medicine Program there.

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anonymous and silent customer whom he is servicing. The tragedy concerns the late Jim Kendall, who is described as ‘a card’ and ‘kind of rough, but a good fella at heart’. The reader realizes early on that Jim Kendall was actually a shiftless and mean-hearted practical joker who most likely got what he deserved. But what makes “Haircut” work so well is the moral insensibility of the narrator. In and of himself Whitey is a pleasant and harmless man; at times he seems genuinely kind. But his attitude toward the story he tells amounts to complicity with Jim’s evildoings.

Readers of “Haircut” might identify with any number of its characters. The one with whom I connect is the man in the barber’s chair, listening to Whitey in silence and yet disturbed, on more than one level, by what he has to say and how he says it. I say ‘on more than one level’ because I realize while reading “Haircut” that I might have my own variations of Whitey’s moral dimwittedness.

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enjoy The Short Stories of Ring Lardner, you will be certain to enjoy his other works of short fiction as well."

John Loranger was born in Butte, Montana in 1961 but has spent most of his life in Nevada. He served in the United States Navy from 1983 to 1987, then worked for the telephone company before retiring in 2011. He has always enjoyed reading fiction and has published two novels of his own: "The Odyssey of Art O'Hara" and "Lions and Souls: the Story of St. Mary of Egypt". His approach to fiction is best summed up by a quote from Walker Percy: "The first rule of thumb, of course, is pleasure. A good book gives the reader pleasure, the sort of deep, abiding pleasure he likes to come back to."

The stories I recommend most, in addition to those mentioned above, are: “The Maysville Minstrel”; “Alibi Ike”; “Champion”; and “There Are Smiles”. If you

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to polish it up. I will direct again. There’s opportunity to direct theater out here too. I have to get my ducks in a row before I jump here right now. There’s another project I’m thinking about.

Janice: Any advice for actors trying to make their way?

Victor: You have to do it because you love it, not because you want to make money doing it. You have to do it because you can’t do anything else; seriously can’t do anything else. Granted you have to get a job and support yourself, but it’s not about being a star. It’s about telling the story and the history of the craft. I’m so grateful that I had the opportunity and every time I have the opportunity, I’m so grateful for it. It’s doesn’t happen all the time.

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I know that there’s an energy to work. Before I left I did something for Me, Myself and I they shot at Warner Brothers. There was a sound stage, a smaller sound stage. Warner Brothers now has plaques of all their sound stages. You walk into these sound stages and you walk around and see the rafters up there and so we’re shooting this TV show but on that same stage in a different time, they shot Mr. Roberts and they shot Angels with Dirty Faces they shot Casablanca and there’s a vibe and energy to a space. Every time an actor gets an opportunity to work in whatever avenue, especially in the studio system, it’s a gift. And it’s a gift that people have been granted historically over the years.

Janice: Thank you for your time, Victor and congratulations on Chappaquiddick.

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Brian T. Shirley

Elizabeth Regal-Entertainer

Brian: Elizabeth, you have a very rich and interesting career so far.

From being a model, to a singer, a producer and several film and TV roles under you belt. Which is first in you mind?

Elizabeth: You know as my mind, body, and spirit has evolved throughout a 20+ year career, mostly in LA, It has changed. I would say though I came out here to be an actress and achieved that, first in my mind is making movies. As the old film director, James Whale would say from the Frankenstein movies…”making movies is the most wonderful thing in the world.” Why? Because you have the ultimate power to turn your fantasy into reality. You have the creative control to make any character or experience come to life through the eyes of the audience. It’s captivating! It’s powerful!

Most of all, you become a spiritual visionary in the world to make a significant on all of humanity with your vision.

Brian: You're currently working on "Apathy Equals Death". What genre of film or stage is your favorite to act in?

Elizabeth: You know, this is a great question considering I am a dark gothic woman all of my life. I like the dark side: horror, thriller, erotic thrillers...I rarely get booked for any other genre. I really liked this project when I saw the casting because it was so edgy and the filmmakers wanted to create a controversial message with a great deal of life lesson undertones. It is a drama and I play a mom, which is rare for me. I am a recovering alcoholic mother of 2 girls in college and I am comedic, offbeat, and a bit clueless. This is the first comedic character I have tackled in over a decade and I look so forward to it.

Brian: How do you prepare for an audition? Any tips for us actors out here?

Elizabeth: This is a great question. Honestly, life is so-fast paced in LA, rarely am I given time to prepare. Most of the time I get cold read auditions or the sides the night before. Self-Tapes are getting to be the latest craze though, which is great because I can go at my own pace. I went out on 84 LA auditions in 2016 on my own merit with no agent and I can honestly say 75% of them were cold reading.

LA is flooded with talent, as casting directors are bombarded with submissions. There is not much time to go in unprepared, late, stressed, etc and not know your lines. I am given the sides and try to be off-book within 30 minutes when I go in. If get the sides ahead of time, I do a read through 3 times. One time to read it, the second time to digest it, and the third time to analyze it. I find the characters ultimate want bigger than life that may or may not be present in the script, create inner dialogue with the characters, then

add mannerisms, start memorizing lines, and then practice in front of a mirror. I may say the line 30+ times until I get it. In television this is a MUST!!! Film is relaxed if you miss a word or improv, never in TELEVISION! They have tech writers and the material is on a time slot on the network and not mentioning censorship. One word can change the context and time frame. You must memorize your lines verbatim in television or you will never get called back or booked unless that casting director or producer really likes you.

Brian: How do you prepare for a role? Tips?

Elizabeth: I am a Lee Strasberg Trained Method Actress, so I do as much as I can to become that character from mindset, vocal range, mannerisms, how they dress, how they live, how were they raised, what is in their head? Research is vital. If I do not relate to that character and am not feeling an organic connection, it is not worth me booking that job just for pay. The camera does not lie. The camera tells all and the director can see in an instant if you’re one with the moment or not.

Just as Sarah Paulson is known to do, I write my lines down. I read the script over and over playing the scenes in my head like Alfred Hitchcock and then re-write the dialogue and by writing down lines the subconscious is triggered to remember. Also, I can honestly say (Continued on page 15)

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Mike Aloia

A Gift God Created In You

“Walk the Turtle”

I have often pondered the reasons why some people are given the gift of longevity while other lives are cut short in death. These are things beyond our understanding. To go forward each morning and feel the breeze of the nighttime wind, it touches us.

Yet, our course of destinies are each different as we journey into every waking moment of life. We absorb experience and understanding of life.

Love becomes the most important issue in each of our lives; whether it be behind bars or within the prisons of our minds, a heart’s desire is to mend. Compassion to the lost, addicted, broken. To those angry or tormented inside during an emotional breakdown - eventually find self-love.

As I get older and reflect on memories of crazy times, amazing moments and milestones along with definitive turning points, I have become wise. Through music and art, writing and producing shows, I create inspiration to others by the gifts God has given and by the people in my life.

To have felt the coldness of betrayal, sorrow and loss of a loved one, I see the frailty. Second chances to exist as humans is by the grace of God. Freedom to express our voice, free will to live our dreams, to make the right choices and decisions that are best for us while following our gut. A ministry of peace is felt by giving testimony to those that

seek guidance in Christ, restore hope and offer a prayer to uplift the poor.

Today’s tomorrow will become yesterday’s memorable scrapbook of our journey. We will all endure physical pain as we grow older; each spirit is eternal. We are beings of mind, body and soul all connected by a faith of humanity. It is unseen by the human eye, yet heard inside all of us.

Walk the turtle, embrace the moments of solitude, and take a moment to stop and observe your surroundings; realize the changes of each day.

Give yourself a smile inside that swirls through your soul, knowing your life is a chance to show the world what a gift God created in you.

Mike Aloia is a father of two daughters and a proud grandfather. He is 50 years old and lives in Jacksonville, Florida. Mike is multi-talented: a cartoonist, comedian, musician, songwriter, actor, columnist, and the CEO of American Hearts Radio, LLC Entertainment Network. He has experience in web TV, radio entertainment production, artist management, and other aspects of entertainment.

His column “Walk the Turtle” are his thoughts on slowing down, taking it easy, and enjoying life. Mike's work can be found in the following places: www.americanheartsradio.com www.facebook.com/americanheartsradio www.harmonybooking.com

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1. Where would you find Vox Humana and Vox Angelica together?

2. Where is the valley of the 10,000 smokes?

3. In the U.S.A. , what is celebrated on February 2nd?

8. What name is given to the notorious tidal current in the Lofoten islands off northern Norway?

9. Donald F. Duncan introduced in 1929 a toy based on a weapon used by 16th-century Filipino hunters. What is it called?

10. Who designed the dome of St. Peter's, Rome?

4. Which castle is on the island of Anglesey?

5. How many people take part in the dance of a quadrille?

11. In what year was the "Gunfight at the OK Corral"?

12. What in medicine is Pathology?

6. What license cost 37 pence when it was abolished in 1988?

7. Lusitania was the Roman name for which EU country?

13. In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated?

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Craps & the Showgirl by Barbara Riiff Davis A little international travel and some local Harolds Club gaming Author, Barbara Riiff Davis went from wearing braces on her legs as a child to performing on the stage as a showgirl during the time when walking was an art for which you were paid. She paints a picture of what it was like before electronics ruled the gaming industry. It was a simpler time, but there were some rocky roads.

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narrative, but if ignored, we risk losing a side of the complete story.

On April 11, 2018 in Reno, Nevada, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will mark the Day of Remembrance with the theme Holocaust Resistance.

This event will honor those who resisted the Nazis featuring those who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which happened seventy-five years ago April, 1943. The event will be held at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa from 7-9:30 p.m. Entrance is free and open to the public. Joseph Kempler will be there.

A native Californian, April Kempler was raised in beautiful downtown Burbank. April currently resides in her "adopted" city of Reno, Nevada. April Voytko Kempler's first book The Altered I: Memoir of Holocaust Survivor Joseph Kempler is a first-person narrative that tells the story of her father-inlaw's experience as a Holocaust survivor. As a Jewish teen, Joseph Kempler survived six different concentration camps, some of them death camps, throughout Poland and Austria.

He later converted to a Christian faith because of what he witnessed in the camps. The Altered I chronicles this lifealtering decision.

When April isn't writing she can usually be found with her nose in a book. As an avid reader she has more books than she can ever read in this lifetime. During the summer months she volunteers with the Historic Reno Preservation Society serving as a walking tour guide through the historic neighborhoods of Reno. April Voytko Kempler also is the cohost of The Book Hound radio show which strives to introduce debut and emerging authors, as well as those best selling favorites, to readers.When April Kempler is not writing or reading, she can be found as co-host of The Book Hound radio show.

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when you are clear on the intention and understand the lines of the other character you are in the scene with, this makes ultimate magic and more in-depth understanding of why I am saying those lines to begin with.

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and a beautiful sensual artform that brings out my sexy side I don’t always get to express in the films I do.

I donate time to charity and work with 2 charities. I work with Kitty Bungalow, a kitty charm school for homeless and feral kittens. I also work with World Education Connection that is a global non-profit Creating an authentic backstory and asking tons of questions from intended to connect schools and students globally. The CEO/Founder, the director and writer is key. I always develop a close relationship Lisa Booth, used to be the head casting director for General Hospital with the director and writer throughout the process. That has helped for 25 years and now is giving her heart to this life-transforming tremendously if I feel I am at odds with a scene or has an aspect I do organization. My lovely supportive friend, Deborah KUmmerman that not understand about the character’s actions. has walked me through many life obstacles introduced me to it and is heavily involved in so many ways. It is all about the students being I strongly suggest every actor continuously coach with a REPUTABLE Seen, Heard, and Valued! acting coach on a regular basis. Most working actors and stars do. Even Al Brian: Any last thoughts, Pacino still studied with his acting coach advice...warnings??!! of many years. I constantly work on scenes I am shooting in my film with my This is always a loaded question. I am just coach I have worked with for years that is blatantly honest. Really think hard before a working educated film director himself. you go into acting, especially LA. Its takes many years and you have to start young Brian: Do you see yourself producing and because it takes on average 15+ years to directing more, or do you play it by ear, build your business, you being the product. take it as it comes?

Less than 10% of actors are working and about 1% become stars.

Elizabeth: I am currently co-producing a horror film right up my alley about an Those are the hard facts. Come to LA with a exorcism starring Wesley Snipes and plan, MONEY, training, credit, and Mischa Barton called “Inhuman.” I play connections. LA has more scams in the Peter’s Mom, a supporting role that I am industry than any other city. As a new elated to work with Wesley Snipes. unprepared actress when I got here, I got taken over and over as many not knowing Brian: Is there any down time in between projects? If so, how do the culture. The people are very different here and the system is you fill that time?

TOUGH, but it can be done.

Elizabeth: Down time in LA? What is that? Let’s just say I have not been on a vacation other than a quick weekend here and there in over 4 years. I am in school part-time finishing my 2nd college degree in June in Music. I sing opera and commercial, but my fantasy style is Goth/Darkwave/Post-Punk.

On my short down time, I do aerial. Yes, I hang off 30 feet in the air— silks, hoop, and ropes. It relieves stress, another side talent,

Understand, LA is all about money. It is the top of the food chain where big budgets are focus, though many indie filmmakers do get breaks. LA is a city for experienced talented ready to go to the next level, though you see tons of 20’s somethings get off the bus with no money and no clue hoping for an overnight break. It does not happen that way. Being a creative is one thing, being an entrepreneur is another.

Entrepreneurial skills are your gold mine and learning how the system works. Work hard, take care of your connections, and help others too.

The sacrifices are insurmountable, but the REWARDS are great! Good Luck!

Brian T. Shirely has the look of a Don Rickles, the comedy of a George Carlin with a touch of Robin Williams but when you roll it all together, it is pure and unique and something only Brian T. Shirley can deliver.

Brian has toured the USA, Canada, The Bahamas and Japan for 25 years. He combines menology, character driven material, story telling and has worked well known comedy clubs, country clubs, resorts, cruise ships, special events, military installations and private events! Check out some of his upcoming shows, promo videos, videos from his webs series and other projects at www.briantshirley.com.

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