A friend pointed out recently that I haven't posted in a while so I thought, on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, that I'd point everyone to an episode of This American Life, the Chicago Public Radio show usually broadcast once a week on your local NPR station. The episode is here and part 1 (not the prologue) is the relevant bit. On the left (not the top) click on the orange "full episode" link to listen.
This American Life is available as a podcast automatically downloaded into iTunes or into Google Reader or other such RSS service. This American Life uses an hour to cover one topic from different perspectives. Sometimes its funny, sometimes poingant, sometimes an in depth look at an under-reported news story. Always good.
And this story about Oliver Stone's next movie makes clear that Pinkville (in which I was cast before the writers' strike) is not going to happen. About Pinkville, Stone says that he "had a great script and one of the best casts of any of [his] films, with 40 young actors and Bruce Willis." I'm pretty sure I'm one of those 40 young actors. Damn. It's not everyday you get an important role in a major filmmaker's next movie. I wasn't looking for a life changed forever - my getting cast was a complete fluke. But dealing with the aftermath of this movie would have been more fun than my job applications. And a new civic would have been nice.
