Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What would happen if the lurkers stopped lurking? Would it shut us loud mouths up? Probably get us going even louder! In the early 70's I flew to New York to audition for Julliard in it's second year as a theatre school. It already had a long history as a top music school. It's possible I popped a few too many tranquilizers for my interview with John Houseman. I came out and the guy at the desk said it wasn't good I was in there for only ten minutes the street mime from San Francisco earlier was in there for a whole hour! Turned out he didn't even do the Shakespeare and got the position in the school I was certainly going for. I was given much encouragement in my failure notice often people drop out and you can jump in there. Robin Williams wasn't at the school very long. But i would have been eaten alive at that early age in New York and I stayed safe and secure going to school in St. Louis. Did more theatre but then switched to "Media." And on my honeymoon in LA in 77 I sat a few tables away from Walter Matheau in an Italian restaurant. He was pretty jovial i think he sat their every night! Big as life! Was I star struck! Mark Rabiner