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Arrested Development Season 4 is not clever; it’s bad TV

Arrested Development doesn’t work.  Season 4.  It just doesn’t work. I’m sorry.  I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer and rain on someone’s AD parade.  …It’s just not that good…  It’s bad.  There.  I said it. First of all, …

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Arrested Development Season 4 is not clever; it’s bad TV

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Arrested Development doesn’t work.  Season 4.  It just doesn’t work. I’m sorry.  I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer and rain on someone’s AD parade.  …It’s just not that good…  It’s bad.  There.  I said it. First of all, …

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Flying past airport security into my ‘cocoon’ and awakening to jet lag

Apparently there was a day when flying was picturesque. Flight attendants looked like models. Men wore suits on planes. And flying was more than a way to get from

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Sleep No More: Macbeth unlike you’ve ever seen

There are three rules: 1) Leave your mask on at all times. 2) No speaking. 3) Do not hold hands. The elevator man stops the lift.  "Sometimes the hotel is better explored alone." 

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Henri Matisse and my journey to discover the meaning of art

Picture this: I'm cleaning up post holiday season - yeah, it took me a long time to let go - and I come across a strand of Christmas lights. I

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Winter Blues? Make a game plan.

I'm having a hard time writing right now.  That usually means I know what I want to say, but I'm afraid to say it. When I was a teenager, I

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Holidays bring out the ‘Fear of Missing out’

We're in the middle of the holiday season - a joyful time of year, perhaps, but more than likely one of stress, too.  The holidays produce in most of

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Why do we live our lives through fictional movies and TV characters?

"You're a regulation hottie," says Janice Ian to Lindsay Lohan's character in Mean Girls. I compare myself to movie situations all the time.  I'm not saying I'm a hottie, but

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Public Speaking: Get rid of the ‘um’ and word-fillers; hire an actor

I'm a little critical.  I'll admit that.  It runs in my family.  I come from a long line of critical women.  They all seem to cling to life, too,

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My inner play

And now, a play based on my actor's psyche. Jana: Every once in a while - or every day - I flip open some social media (cough. Facebook) and find someone's

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Post-show depression: 5 stages of grieving for actors

(Blythe Coons (Mercutio) plays her last scene in Romeo and Juliet. All photos by Sandra Barton) I hear the applause.  And stand to take that final bow.  The bow that

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