Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
Recently, we looked back at several local individuals and groups who achieved some notable successes in the performing arts, but exactly what nurtured all that talent? One might argue that attending San Francisco schools, either public or parochial, in the 1950s and 1960s, gave us all a taste of show business at an early age.
My own acting debut was in December 1957 on stage at Parkside School. As part of the Christmas (a word still used in public schools back then) pageant, many of us kindergarteners were interspersed on stage among the big third sixth graders in the cast. Our non-speaking roles involved holding/shaking flocked, glitter-encrusted cardboard snowflakes, thus setting the wintertime scene. We felt quite smug and superior to the first and second graders who formed the chorus, and who were relegated to sitting on the floor, singing endless choruses of
Border disorder: Political theater of the absurd
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Ladd joined the series in Season 2 in the role of Fawcett s character Jill Munroe s sister Kris.
Take âArson and Old Lace,â the episode airing July 4 on the retro channel getTV. Cable tries to break up a dockside Mafia-like extortion racket dressed alternately as a ratty, blond-haired, drunken Scottish sailor; a self-proclaimed âgambler, gourmet and gentleman with a womanâ sporting a white suit and a pencil-thin mustache; a gray-haired, top-hat-wearing Irish fight promoter; and a badly scarred, hook-nosed vagrant on the trail of the bad guys.
The quick changes made days on the
Barbary Coast set as exciting as the plots. âWe had Tom Burman, a terrific makeup man. The wardrobe lady would look at the makeup, rush off and come back with something. Iâd put it on, jump into character, and theyâd have been holding up shooting until I arrived,â Shatner says. âIâd shoot that scene, then run back to the makeup room. And I did that three tim
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