My Minute With Andre

MINUTE 4:

What makes a friendship go sour? Is it competition between peers? Is it years of neglect? Is it having to figure out your own damn dinner situation three nights a week?

TRANSCRIPT:

Wally (narration): It was now seven o'clock and I would have liked nothing better than to go home and have my girlfriend, Debbie, cook me a nice, delicious dinner. But for the last several years, our financial circumstances have forced Debbie to work three nights a week as a waitress. Afterall, somebody had to bring in a little money. So, I was on my own.

Wally (narration): But the worst thing of all was that I'd been trapped by an odd series of circumstances into agreeing to have dinner with a man I'd been avoiding literally for years. His name was Andre Gregory. At one time he'd been a very close friend of mine, as well as my most valued colleague in the theater. In fact, he was the man who had first discovered me and put one of my plays on the professional stage. When I'd known Andre, he'd been at the height of his career as a theater director. The amazing work he did with his company, The Manhattan Project, had just stunned audiences throughout the world.

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Chris Thompson Blogs at www.chroniclesofnonsense.com

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Episode/Minute Four drops this Wednesday June 14th

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MINUTE 3:

Are artists entitled to make their living from their art? If art isn't paying the bills, is the artist a failure, or just out of step with economic reality? Do material struggles hinder or rather inform an artist's work?

TRANSCRIPT:

--meanwhile, checking constantly with my answering service to see if my agent had called with any acting work. In the morning, the mailbox had just been stuffed with bills. What was I supposed to do? How was I supposed to pay them? After all, I was already doing my best.

Wally (narration): I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side and when I was ten years old I was rich, I was an aristocrat, riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now, I'm 36, and new all I think about is money.

OUR GUEST:

Chris Thompson Blogs at www.chroniclesofnonsense.com

And blows up Twitter hourly: www.twitter.com/chronsofnon

ACTUAL RESPONSES:

Thanks to Ramona from Toronto, Jacob Haller and the Marquis de Lafayette for writing in.

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Episode/Minute Four drops this Friday June 9th

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MINUTE 2:

What is the difference between a character and the actor who plays them? What if they have the same name? The same job? What if they wore their clothes from home to set? What if they wrote the script themselves?

TRANSCRIPT:

Wally (narration): The life of a playwright is tough. It's not easy, as some people seem to think. You work hard writing plays and nobody puts them on. You take up other lines of work to try to make a living, I became an actor, and people don't hire you. So you just spend your days doing the errands of your trade. Today, I had to be up by ten in the morning to make some important phone calls. Then, I'd gone to the stationery store to buy envelopes. Then, to the Xerox shop. There were dozens of things to do.

Wally (narration): By five o'clock, I'd finally made it to the post office and mailed off several copies of my plays, meanwhile, checking constantly with my–

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Episode/Minute Three drops this Wednesday June 7th

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Our first episode! Woody explains why this movie is special to him and why it deserves the minute-by-minute treatment. He then goes over the first minute in great detail then wraps up with 'Actual Responses' from listeners (yes he knows it's not possible to have listeners before the show premiers, SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF). Thanks to Tara D. and Talcott Starr for writing in!

Episode/Minute Two drops this Friday, June 2nd!

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