Forest fire smoke was drifting over the valley from two points west, and down from Marias Pass to the east of us yesterday. A smelly haze sits over everything this morning, reddening the light.

Remembering my friend Georgio at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

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Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED! Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; The Orson Welles Rumor Debunked; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!
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Charity Alert: Make a resolution this Summer to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Videotaping and editing yesterday -- the community college's new theater is getting ready for their first productions, and we want to get the word out about them. We were also pulling cable elsewhere in the new building, and will pull more today, plus install classroom equipment.

Theater/Theatre/Media: I had a couple of long phone conversations with dancer Matt Child and his wife, the actor Caroline Noh. They'll be visiting England next month, after dealing with Amerika's loused-up medical system in early September. Michael Moore's latest movie Sicko struck a special chord for them. Caroline was in the original Rocky Horror Show stage company, and still has contacts with Richard O'Brien. I told Matt about my new updates on Theater X-Net concerning the late George Kugler, and he promised to send me a xerox of our LA Times review from 1975.


Matt Child, George Kugler, and Katie Duck (foreground) performing the piece Competition in Southern California, Spring 1975 -- about the time we got that rave review in the LA Times and left the USA almost immediately afterwards.