Tuesday, January 21, 2003 :::
 
1/21/03
THE YEAR COMMENCES
Pamela Munro continues to be busy. The process with her new photos is almost complete. Her agent, Rich Smith at Morgan, is impressed by the shoot and says that she looks like a "real person." Well, Pamela has always thought that she was real enough.
By the way, the Morgan Agency got a nice write-up in BACKSTAGE a couple of weeks ago - a whole article about the agency and its growth and recent move. The new offices near Hollywood and Highland (where their launch party was held at the glittering Highlands nightclub) have a great view of downtown Hollywood and the Hills. The agency continues to prosper, and Pamela looks forward to being with them for a long time.

Pamela revived a dramatic scene with her friend and scene partner Jody Lee Olhava for a showcase through the auspices of the Kansas Connection - where they were seen by producer Robert Thompson of the PAPER CHASE movie and series fame. (He's doing a movie with Whoopi Goldberg in Texas later this year - wouldn't be nice to be in that?) She also attended a seminar with the manager Brad Lemack of Lemack and Company, who has written a book THE BUSINESS OF ACTING, and stayed on to chat with him about this topic, which is near and dear to her heart. She used to emphasize just this aspect of the biz in her years at the SAG/AFI Conservatory. (Unfortunately, Mr. Lemack didn't mention the Conservatory in his book.) She's considering compiling her own outrageous observations about a show biz career - all the things no one dares to assert. Have any suggestions? Here's your chance to share them with her at pamphyila@yahoo.com

Pamela is also looking forward to meeting later this month with Linda Purl, the star of the Rubicon's upcoming production of STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, about working with her. She also is talking with Peter Strauss of the Raven Playhouse in NOHO, about putting together a short piece for the NOHO Festival this Spring and has several things in mind. If time permits, she may be able to mount a staged reading of classic Hollywood screenplays up in Ventura's Hollywood-By-the-Sea. (Valentino filmed THE SHEIK up there on the dunes, and had a beach cottage there - not to mention other later Hollywood luminaries - Bogart and Bacall, and Gable and Lombard.)

Pamela went sailing with old Hollywood friends on the Martin Luther King holiday, and then regaled them with tapes of the WIZARD OF OZ parody she did for the Ant Farm for the Key Art Awards, and of TRAVELING LADY, which received an Ovation Theatre Award nomination (which they had missed). Doesn't look like mention of those projects made the blog screen - so she's highlighting them again here. It's always nice to be in such good company, and thanks to the magic of tape - we can preserve some of our work, so we can see if it really did get across, which, happily it did!

P.S. on the language front, an former student from Pamela's German classes at LTU looked her up, and they now are happily working on German for the student's summer trip to Austria. It's fun to exercise the German language muscle - especially, since Pamela has been, once again, working on her Spanish, even reading some interesting PLAYS in that language. Wouldn't it be FUN to ACT in a language other than ENGLISH (altho it's unlikely that she'll be taken for an Hispanic anytime soon! - a German or a Russian or Scandinavian, perhaps).

::: posted by pamela at 2:53 PM

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