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About Me

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking...Someday all of this will have to be developed."
-Christopher Isherwood, writer
"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
-Bertolt Brecht, playwright
"Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous."
-Stella Adler, actress
"I want entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
-Joan Didion, writer
I love Stephen Sondheim more than you will ever know. Theatre is my life. You need to know that. I love the smell of novels. I drink tea on a daily basis. I wish I could paint. And cook. And dance. I liked "Rent" before it was a movie. It's called a "cast recording," not a "soundtrack." I wear sweaters even in the throes of summer. I sometimes spell words like the English. Gavin Creel is the hottest man alive. I love musical theatre, but I don't like to do it. I hate when people refer to shirts as "wife beaters." I'm in love with Bernadette Peters. I like the comfortable middle section of relationships, and I hate beginnings and ends. I like the names Finnegan, Tobias, and Wystan. I always want things to be better than they are. I'm the definition of a show queen. I eat lemons like I eat oranges. I eat entire oranges: peel and all. I'm an agnostic existentialist.

My Interests

Acting, Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS, Criminology, Directing, Facebook, Film, Hillary Clinton for President, Humorous t-shirts, Judaism, Musical theatre, Novels, Philosophy, Poetry, Theatre, World War II, Writing

I'd like to meet:

Artistic minds. Democrats. And famous people.

Music:

John Adams, Peter Allen, Bright Eyes, Jason Robert Brown, Gavin Creel, Manoel Felciano, Ben Folds, Marvin Gaye, Philip Glass, Elton John, Keane, Audra McDonald, Maroon Five, Sarah McLachlan, Mika, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morissette, Randy Newman, Thomas Newman, Bernadette Peters, Scissor Sisters, Sufjan Stevens, Teddy Thompson, Train, Rufus Wainwright, and quite a bit of musical theatre

Movies:

About a Boy, All That Jazz, Almost Famous, AmÃ©lie, American Beauty, Angels in America, As Good As It Gets, Cabaret, Camp, Chicago, Cradle Will Rock, Dogville, Elizabethtown, The Exorcist, Far From Heaven, Fight Club, Garden State, Hamlet (Branagh), The History Boys, The Hours, Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Love Actually, Love! Valour! Compasson!, Mean Girls, A Mighty Wind, Moulin Rouge, Notes on a Scandal, Pay It Forward, The Pianist, Pride and Prejudice, Running with Scissors, Rushmore, Shakespeare in Love, The Shape of Things, Stranger Than Fiction, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunset Boulevard, Waiting for Guffman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wonder Boys, You Can Count On Me, and more

Television:

Big Love, Brothers and Sisters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Entourage, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Match Game, Reno 911, Six Feet Under, Top Chef, Will and Grace

Books:

The plays of Edward Albee, Approaching the Millenium: Essays on Angels in America, The Cider House Rules, Collected Poems of W.H. Auden, The Corrections, Don't Get Too Comfortable, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Dry, The Exorcist, House of Sand and Fog, The plays of Tony Kushner, The plays of Neil LaBute, The Line of Beauty, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Original Story By, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed, Ragtime, Red Dragon, Rosemary's Baby, Running with Scissors, The plays of William Shakespeare, The Stepford Wives, Stephen Sondheim: A Life, Tommy's Tale, The White Album, The plays of Tennessee Williams, Without You, Wonder Boys

Heroes:

Edward Albee, Mark Branner, John Doyle, Bob Fosse, Christopher Isherwood, Tony Kushner, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally, Sam Mendes, BrÃan F. O'Byrne, Rosie O'Donnell, Stephen Sondheim, Tennessee Williams, Oprah Winfrey

My Blog

P.S.

I hate that people don't get the irony of The Colbert Report. L
Posted by Lane. on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:27:00 PST

Game Show King.

Richard Dawson was the Ryan Seacrest of his day. L
Posted by Lane. on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:45:00 PST

Some People Never Learn.

Once again, I'm pissed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I don't know why I watch the Oscars anymore or why I even bothering checking to see who got nominated. This year - they're r...
Posted by Lane. on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:41:00 PST

The Truth.

I don't even know where to begin.This is just ridiculous.I don't know how I will ever be ableTo look at you again.Why couldn't you have told me?Why couldn't you have admitted itWhen I knew all along? ...
Posted by Lane. on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:36:00 PST

This Is About Something Else.

I am not going to write the blog I want to write.I don't need to.I have something better in my life.But let me just tell you this -The worst feeling in the worldIs being disappointed. L P.S. And, for ...
Posted by Lane. on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:34:00 PST

How Am I Supposed To Live?

Today, I go outside to my car and see this painted on my windows: YOU ASHAME THE WORLD. L...
Posted by Lane. on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:33:00 PST

'Cabaret' is a smash hit! And it's a miss

'Cabaret' is a smash hit! And it's a missby Dennis Anderson Looks like a hit. No, strike that. It looks like a smash hit. The New York Times review would be that "Cabaret" directed by high school seni...
Posted by Lane. on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:27:00 PST

Flasher.

The Antelope Valley Union High School District School Board received a complaint today that Cabaret is (and I am not making this up) "like Girls Gone Wild." Including the specific statements that wome...
Posted by Lane. on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:21:00 PST

Pondering Tim Rice.

Sometimes I am too hard on Tim Rice. Yes, the majority of the man's lyrics are garbage. While sitting in the theatre last night, I couldn't help but roll my eyes and scoff at this gem: All these thi...
Posted by Lane. on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:05:00 PST

A Letter P.

Dear Josh Groban, You're boring. Stop singing. L
Posted by Lane. on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST