Month: January 2009

Blame Rosie O’Donell and Lily Tomlin

You might wonder why, at age 71, I am launching my first blog. Well, good friends of mine (Rosie and Lily) have been avid bloggers for a long time and I’ve noticed that what they offer is intere...

Ask Vanessa @ Mother Nature Network

My daughter, Vanessa Vadim, is the environmental know-it-all for an important new website called Mother Nature Network (MNN). Her column is called “Ask Vanessa.” In it, she answers your questions abou...

Humpback Whale Rescued by Divers

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundr...

33 Variations Tickets

Listen to Jane Fonda and Moisés Kaufman on “Times Talks” discuss the play. Courtesy of PlaybillRadio.com [kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”/flashvideoplayer/...

Yearning For O’Neill

We’re doing run throughs almost every day now and Monday we move into the Eugene O’Neill Theater for the start of technical rehearsals. These are to theater what camera blocking is to movi...

Missing My Dad

Today, during lunch break, I took my dog, Tulea, for a walk and it really hit me how much I miss my dad. When he returned from his stint in the Navy after WWII he went straight to Broadway to star in ...

January 25

I spent the morning rehearsing by myself, trying new ideas and tonight I ran scenes for a few hours with my assistant, Rachel. I feel ever so much better. Sleep! What a difference it makes for me plus...

Stumble Through

We’re doing another stumble through this morning. I like to do these because it gives me a chance to see the arc of my character and of the whole play which you can’t get when you’re rehearsing scenes...

Photos

Tulea and hopping wind-up mouse Tulea running in Paris This is before I began having her clipped

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