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Rick

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About Me

I am an actor and improviser who can be seen every Tuesday night at Second City Los Angeles performing improvised comedy with some of the most talented people around! I can also be seen performing sketch comedy at Second City and other fine venues in Los Angeles.
Oh yeah, I also have a day job as a white-collar professional, as hard as that may be to imagine.
I'm a very well rounded person with varied interests. I like things that range from "real guy" stuff to incredibly nerdy. That's right, I'm a Geminii. While I don't have two personalities, I do have a duality to me. At least I'm not boring! I'm friendly and outgoing, although most people seem to think I'm yelling at them when I'm not. I'm from New York ... maybe that's it! Lots of fun. I'm all about having fun.
Your Candy Heart Says "Get Real"
You're a bit of a cynic when it comes to love.
You don't lose your head, and hardly anyone penetrates your heart.
Your ideal Valentine's Day date: is all about the person you're seeing (with no mentions of v-day!)
Your flirting style: honest and even slightly sarcastic
What turns you off: romantic expectations and "greeting card" holidays
Why you're hot: you don't just play hard to get - you are hard to get What Does Your Candy Heart Say?

Your Birthdate: June 4
You have an extraordinary character - moral, responsible, and disciplined.
Your sincerely and honesty shine through in almost every situation.
Driven and focused, you rarely let your emotions get the better of you.
You're level headed and rational. People count on your to look at things objectively.
Your strength: Your unwavering loyalty and ethics
Your weakness: Your rock solid stubbornness
Your power color: Navy blue
Your power symbol: Shield
Your power month: April What Does Your Birth Date Mean?Take the quiz:
What does your birth month reveal about you?

June
Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite andsoft-spoken. Having lots of ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly. Knows how to make friends. Abiding. Able to show character. Easily hurt. Prone to getting colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Brand conscious. Executive. Stubborn.
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What SuPeR HeRo Would You Be?

Superman
You are strong, but a little on the shy side, you are talented. But a word of advice, don't go changing in telephone boths, you can get arrested!
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My Interests

Improv, Acting, Movies, Books, History, Television, Cartoons, Game Shows (I've been a contestant on 8 of them) Sports, Good Food and a whole bunch of other stuff I can't think of.
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Get this video and more at MySpace.com

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people.

Music:


Here's the video of New York City by Cub! .. width="425" height="350" ..The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, Elvis Costello (pre-1980), Nick Lowe, Rockpile, Blondie, The Clash, Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Billy Joel, Springsteen, The Police, Jethro Tull, Styx, ELO, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes, REM, Green Day, Johnny Cash, They Might Be Giants, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes

Movies:

Goodfellas, The Godfather (I & II), Tommy Boy, Uncle Buck,Broadway Danny Rose, A Soldier's Story, Wizard of Oz, Superman II, Bride of Frankenstein, Dawn of the Dead (the original), Taxi Driver, North by Northwest, Anything with the Marx Bros., Three Stooges, Animal House, Young Frankenstein, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, Rocky, Blue Velvet, Diner, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, The Hills Have Eyes, The Bad News Bears, Sling Blade, Get Shorty, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Field of Dreams

Television:

NYPD Blue, Seinfeld, The Shield, Law & Order, Looney Tunes, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Odd Couple, Fawlty Towers, The Honeymooners, Monty Python's Flying Circus

Books:

Everything by Stephen King, Everything by Michael Connolly, Everything by Robert Crais, Everything by Robert R. McCammon, The World According to Garp by John Irving, Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, The Bad Place by Dean Koontz, Private Parts and Miss America by Howard Stern, Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, Harry Potter, The Andromeda Strain by Micael Crichton

My Blog

Heinz Commercial Contest

So my buddy Jim, who is a writer/director (I'm in his feature film, "The Hand Job") entered this contest Heinz was running.  He wrote and directed a 30 second commercial and asked me to be in it....
Posted by Rick on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:30:00 PST

See Me On Jeopardy in September!

    Well, one of my childhood dreams came true yesterday.  I was a constestant on Jeopardy!  Ever since I was a little kid and I watched Jeopardy with the original host, Art F...
Posted by Rick on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:37:00 PST

Hawaii Here I Come

    Tomorrow morning (Wednesday), I'm off for a few days in Maui!  I'm very excited.  I've never been to Hawaii before.  The last REAL vacation I had was in 2000, when I ...
Posted by Rick on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:27:00 PST

New York City by Cub: VIDEO!

So, if you are reading this, you know the song on my profile is New York City, by Vancouver all-girl garage band, Cub.  My obsession with this song has not stopped.  In trying to decipher so...
Posted by Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:05:00 PST

R.I.P. Jame Brown

    I had to good fortune to see James Brown perform live once.  It was at one of the strangest venues for a concert, though.  It was at something called Taste of L.A., about ...
Posted by Rick on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:51:00 PST

I Changed The Song On My Profile!

In case you didn't notice (ok, does anyone notice?), I have a different song playing on my profile.  Of course, there is a story behind it.Being that I was born and raised in New York, I sometime...
Posted by Rick on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:38:00 PST

Movie Review: Rocky Balboa (no spoilers!)

    Ok, I haven't blogged in a long time.  I don't know why, exactly, but maybe a small reason is this blog will knock my blog from 5/20 off the "top 5" blogs on my page.  Tha...
Posted by Rick on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:23:00 PST

AREA 54 Videos!

    Ok, I got ambitious today and uploaded some sketches from the first Area 54 show.  Here they are:Serial Killer:Get this video and more at MySpace.comPositive Parents (always a ...
Posted by Rick on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:19:00 PST

The Song on my Profile

I wanted to say something about the song on my profile.  I was happy to find it here on myspace and I want to share it with everyone.  Recenlty, my friend Andrea said, "That's a great song o...
Posted by Rick on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:17:00 PST

Movie Review: Superman Returns (SPOILERS INSIDE, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!)

Ok, I have to preface this blog by stating, for those who don't know me, that I learned to read by reading comic books.  I'm one of the biggest comic book fans that I know.  Of all comic boo...
Posted by Rick on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:53:00 PST