Michael - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I believe in my profession -in my Act- in myself. I believe in Sunshine and Smiles, Laughter and Jest, Beauty, Grace and Song. I believe that the chap who makes a Nation forget its grief is greater than he who leads it into battle. I believe that the Great Stage Manager is not without a sense of humor, Himself, or he would not have bestowed it on so many of his own. I believe in Humanity -ALL Humanity. I believe in the Divinity of Motherhood, the sanctity of Little Children, and the wholesome fineness of the Women of the Stage. I believe it is my Professional Duty to defend their good name. I believe the best about my Fellow Players -the worst about those who run them down. I believe in a Hell for Knockers -a Heaven for those apostles of Charity and Cheer whose hearts and hands are always open to the needy, whose lives are fragrant with good deeds quietly performed. And I believe that when the last Big Bill is made up those who Make Good here needn't worry much about their "spot" up There.The Vaudeville Artist's Creed - 1915 MySpace Profile Photo Editor

My Interests

Movies, Surfing, Piano, Ultimate Frisbee, Photography, Gardening, Cooking (making sushi with Rachael), Traveling, Camping, reading

I'd like to meet:

Sean Penn

Music:

in no order: Jelly-Roll Morton, Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers, Nat King Cole, Thelonious Monk, Fatts Waller, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Dean Martin, Billy Joel, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Devotchka, Duke Ellington, Ella, Billie Holiday, John Denver, Johnny Mercer, The Resentments, Frank, Michael Buble, Jack Johnson, Xavier Rudd, The Scientists, Dan Kalai, Art Tatum, Donald Lambert, Ray Charles

Movies:

All W.C. Fields, The Hustler, Raging Bull, White Heat, Angels with Dirty Faces, Big Fish, Little Miss Sunshine, All Marx Brothers, Sunset Boulevard, The Godfather, Dead Man Walking, 21 Grams, The Falcon and the Snowman, Sideways, Arthur, Beyond the Sea, The Elephant Man, Pulp Fiction, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Streetcar Named Desire, Its a Wonderful Life, Philadelphia Story, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, La Strada, Il Postino, Stalag 17, Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple, All the Kings Men, Lord of the Rings, In America, Primal Fear, Cinema Paradiso, Quiz Show, Amadeus, Glengarry Glenross, Master and Commander, Your Friends and Neighbors, In the Company of Men, JFK, Sicko, Inconvenient Truth, The Departed, Mean Streets, Babel

Television:

Man vs Wild, Food Network, BRAVO, Mad Men (my buddy Aaron Staton is on it)

Books:

Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, Harpo Speaks, Elia Kazan: A Life, Tuesdays with Morrie, Into the Wild, Groucho and Me, On the Road, Lord of the Rings, Dean and Me, Into Thin Air,

Heroes:

Harpo Marx, Dean Martin, Michael Caine, Paul Newman