i can't believe jesus called gavin creel a dick

“I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.”

unless i go to chemotherapy.

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Mary Shelley: Were you a goth, prep, nerd, or jock in school?

Zora Neale Hurston: Do you write in your free time? If so, then what do you write?

J.D. Salinger: What was the last movie you watched?

Alice Walker: What was the first “adult” book you ever read?

Bram Stoker: Do you prefer suspenseful horror movies, gore, or jump scares?

Oscar Wilde: What book have you read more than once?

Beatrix Potter: Do you like reading inside or outside?

Ann Radcliffe: What’s something you’re known for among your friends or family?

Lord Byron: What’s a negative quality that you can admit to having?

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Do you have a favorite poem or one you can recite?

Jane Austen: Have you ever fallen in love?

Langston Hughes: If you could be part of a literary era, which one?

Emily Dickinson: What’s the last book you were reading?

John William Polidori: What was the last book you finished?

Stendhal: Have you ever hid a book you were reading because you were embarrassed? 

Charles Dickens: What book are you currently reading?

Thomas Hardy: Are you a city or country person?

Virginia Woolf: What book has been on your TBR longer than a year?

Theatre Challenge →4/8 songs 

Gimme, gimme that thing called love I crave it

Gimme, gimme that thing called love I’ll brave it 

There’s a certain kind of song you just want to crank up after a bad breakup or a rough day at work. In 1963, a young singer renowned for a hit about getting ditched at a party unleashed just such an anthem.

Lesley Gore’s coolly mutinous “You Don’t Own Me” is richly scored, building from a minor-key dirge in the verses to a spirited chorus. The 1963 hit reframed the 17-year-old Gore as a confident chanteuse, rather than the pert pop princess then best-known for such bubblegum hits as “It’s My Party” and “Judy’s Turn To Cry.” Her earlier songs had mostly concerned boys — getting dumped by boys, getting approval from boys, bragging about the boys who liked her.

In an interview on WHYY’s Fresh Air in 1991, Gore recalled when “You Don’t Own Me” first came to her attention. “At the time, I know I chose it because I know I liked the strength in the lyric,” she told host Terry Gross. “But, for me, it was not a song about being a woman. It was about being a person, and what was involved with that. Of course, it got picked up as an anthem for women, which makes me very proud.”

‘You Don’t Own Me,’ A Feminist Anthem With Civil Rights Roots, Is All About Empathy

“There are people out there unafraid to feel sorrow; unafraid of tomorrow; unafraid to be weak; unafraid to be strong!”

Day 129: Mother (Ragtime)

Ready. Set. Go!

On Broadway, when a production is just about to open, the press schedule can be filled to the brim with events which means, when I have a feature shoot, sometimes I have as little as 10 minutes for a photoshoot. And that was this case for my session with the Band’s Visits Katrina Lenk. I was given a 10 minute window in the middle of show’s press junket, shooting after interviews were concluded but just before the cast took the stage to perform a sneak peek at the musical. Luckily, we were in the Strand’s Rare Books Room so the show’s star and I found a cozy corner away from the hustle and bustle of the event to create this timeless photo set! Like, being shot out of a cannon, this session had us continuously moving, proving you can strike gold in 10 minutes!