Roscoe Lee Browne died yesterday. You may not know his name, but I'm sure you recognize his face, and definitely his voice. I had the honor of meeting Mr. Browne twice. The first time was after a performance of August Wilson's 2 Trains Running on Broadway. To this day, it is the best piece of theatre I have ever seen. He was gracious and signed my playbook and took a picture with me. The second time was at a bar in Burbank. I had gone for a drink after work and there he was, sitting alone in the corner. I approached him, told him how much I loved the play and he was kind enough to engage in conversation with me for a few minutes.

I'm glad that he has found relief from any suffering he was experiencing with his cancer battle, but at the same time, I am saddened by the loss of another of our great actors.

Note: 2 Trains Running will be opening this month at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Another of the original cast members and a friend of mine, Al White, will be performing.

Plucky

So, I watched Cameron Crowe"s movie Elizabethtown the other night. Although the reviews weren't very good, I found that I really liked this movie. The blurb about the movie described Kirsten Dunst's character as 'plucky'.

Don't we all wish that we could be 'plucky'? The kind of person that everyone loves hanging out with, the person who always has something witty and fun to say, is deep without being preachy, and is 'hard to forget, but impossible to remember'.

Well, not everyone is plucky. Plucky sometimes toes the line with annoying...with annoying usually winning out. But we all have moments of being plucky...especially while on vacation or around people we don't know.

I guess since I'm usually around people I know and won't be on vacation until July, I have months of being non-plucky. Hmmm...maybe I'll just have to write something in which the character I play could be considered plucky. Speaking of which, I just finished my first screenplay [that was a long lead in, huh?]. The first draft is being looked over by some friends for feedback and at that point, I'll start preproduction. HA! It feels so cool to say that. I'm just going to marinate on that for a little bit.