Bonny Bartlett, grew up in Illinois. Her interest in theatre came from her father, an actor turned businessman, who loved to quote Shakespeare. A straight-A student, Bonnie attended Northwestern University to study acting. There she met her future husband, Bill Daniels, also an actor (our March 2001 Profile).
You recently worked on the score to "The Matrix Reloaded", and used similar material from "The Matrix". Tell me a bit about the elements you used to create this score.
Well, the Wachowski Brothers None of us were interested in abandoning what had been established in the first picture; we wanted to expand on it, just like the Wachowskis expanded on their palette. So I was definitely looking to see how I could take those motifs and post-modern concepts and pursue something bigger and more ambitious.
William Dainels, A versatile character actor of stage, film and, most successfully, TV, is often cast in arrogant, authoritative or WASPish roles, once served the Industry in the tireless roll of President of the Screen Actors Guild.
![Chris Ellis | "Fairly Legal" (2011) [a]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2018-05/Chris_Ellis-Fairly_Legal-%282011%291-c_%20Alan_Zenuk-%C2%A9_USA_Network.jpg?itok=FUkmKJ1S "Chris Ellis | \"Fairly Legal\" (2011) [a]")
Chris Ellis always wanted to be an actor because of television. He grew up in the 50's in the deep south in a "world of privation and violence", but saw on television people who seemed to have lives of ease and priviliege.
"I was raised in the Mississippi delta, and my salient memories from early childhood are of children who were beaten and abused by adults or by other children." But, that's is not why he left.
For many years everyone wondered who that handsome sexy man is in the Listerine campaign – "Death to Germs". It was Madison Mason.
Coming from two successful rock groups (Faith No More and Imperial Teen), how did you make the jump into film music?
I grew up in Los Angeles, and was always into film music as a kid. I moved to San Francisco to attend the film program at San Francisco State to learn film production. San Francisco in the 1980s was a thriving art community - so it made sense to work in a lot of different fields - so I joined a band. The band took me on the road - away from the camera, and the area where I could make films. It ended up being a fulltime job for many years. So I just stopped doing film for a long time while I was touring, since Faith No More turned into a round-the-clock, throughout-the-year, fulltime job. Now, after about 15-years, it makes sense. Since I want to stay home and not do as much touring, I can get back into film.
Charlie Brill is what is known as a 'Natural Entertainer', in fact some believe that it's tough to say how much Charlie Brill is in show business and how much show business is in Charlie Brill. At just 11 years old, Brooklyn-born Brill bagged a day at grammar school, boarded a subway train, and bounded to Broadway to audition for "Peter Pan". He got the role of John - all before his 13th birthday. And like a fine wine, as he got older, he got better.
Born on July 23, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri, Edie McClurg began her performing career at age five with the oxymoronic Kansas City Rhythm Kids. She retired when the dance teacher was arrested on a morals charge for "dating" the tall and lissome, yet underage, star dancer in the troupe. That girl's big number culminated with a back-bend where Edie drank a soda upside down (of course).
Romulus Films
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
A general utilitarian player on TV and film, Ross Elliott provided clean-cut, reliable support for over four decades. Born Elliott Blum on June 18, 1917 in New York City, Ross grew up in the Bronx and began appearing in plays while a teenage at both summer camps and in high school. He attended New York's City College upon graduation pursing both law and appearing in the college's dramatic productions. Acting won out in the long run after he received his degree in 1937.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
