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PLEASE NOTE, my interview in the July 6 issue of Backstage West is too large a file to reproduce here, but if you would like a copy, I can forward it to you via email.  Use the link at the bottom of this page to contact me, and write "Requesting interview copy" in the subject line.
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with Oscar-winning producer / director / writer Paul Haggis

 
 
 
 
April, 2006, at an event in honor of Paul Haggis, a few weeks after he won the Academy Award for producing the 2005 Best Picture winner, "Crash."  He was also the writer of the 2004 Best Picture winner, "Million Dollar Baby."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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with John Fiore ("The Sopranos", "Law and Order")

  March, 2005, at a fundraiser for Safe Passage, a shelter for abused women and their children.

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with Mickey Rizzo and Georgia Durante (author and owner of Performance Two stunt car team)

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with Dr. James Keough and our host Jim Myron ("Live from the Myron Ballroom")

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with Stella Stevens (kneeling, left - "The Ballad of Cable Hogue," "Poseidon Adventure") & friends

(At right)   Safe Passage 2005 fundraiser at Jim Myron's lovely estate, high above the city lights of L.A.
 
 
 
 
 
(At left)   Safe Passage 2001 fundraiser with a Western theme, hosted by Stella Stevens at CBS Studios.
 
 
 

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with four-time Oscar nominee, Jeff Bridges

 
 
 
December, 2004, at a screening of Jeff Bridges' new film, The Door in the Floor.
 
 
 

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with Oscar-winner Shelley Winters ("The Diary of Anne Frank")

 
 
July, 2005, at a DVD-release event for director Curtis Harrington, who directed Shelley Winters in Whoever Slew Auntie Roo.  I spoke with Miss Winters about Petronella VanDaan, a real-life woman whom we have both portrayed in The Diary of Anne Frank.  I have played the role on stage, whereas Miss Winters (who passed away in 2006) won her first Academy Award for the 1959 film.
 
 
 

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with CJ Jones, Oscar-winner Kim Hunter, and director Douglas Green

 
 
 
 
In June of 2000, at the premiere of The Hiding Place, a film starring Kim Hunter and Timothy Bottoms and directed by Douglas Green.  Doug had previously directed me on stage in The Butler Did It
 
Ms. Hunter, who won the 1952 Academy Award for A Streetcar Named Desire and later played Dr. Zira in the Planet of the Apes films, passed away in 2002.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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with Kevin McCarthy (during his 7th decade of acting)

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The film that made him famous.

 
 
 
 
Kevin McCarthy, at left with me in August of 2004, and at right in 1956, with Dana Wynter in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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