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Quote-In: An Excerpt from Tony Anthony's "Quote's that Touch a Nerve"

RADIOSPOT: Doug DeVita's THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW

The Fierce Urgency of Now – by Doug DeVita   in March 2021
In this fast-moving caustic comedy, Kyle, an art director in high-powered New York ad agency, tries to discover his real self amid power struggles and stereotypes. He finds an ally in Dodo, who understands his plight – being that she became a lady-living-legend in an era of “Mad Men.”
A Fresh Fruit Awards of Distinction winner for Outstanding Play AND Outstanding Production! press: Arts Stage – Seattle Rage:“ The writing is fresh, funny, and smart without striving for hilarity. It hits where it’s meant to hit. ”  Outer-Stage: “ A rapid-fire, well-timed character study filled with terrific one-liners, deep and even tearful relationship moments, and sage wisdom for the texting generation. ”
 
Doug DeVita Presents THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW as Radio Play
Fierce follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a New York ad agency.  
        
Doug DeVita's witty exploration of homophobia and ageism in the ad world becomes a radio play. Premiering in March. Visit freshfruitfestival.com for details.
Doug DeVita's fast-paced comedy, The Fierce Urgency of Now, has multiple lives across the country. A regional favorite for some time, the play has been turned into a screenplay and is currently in development as a motion picture. In the meantime, playwright/screenwriter Doug DeVita has reworked the piece into a joyous radio-style play. Fierce follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a New York ad agency. After an office restructuring puts him in a new creative group run by a homophobic manager, he finds an unlikely ally in copywriter Dodo, a living-legend from the era of "Mad Men," who not-so-gently prods Kyle to the realization that "It's time to take off. And soar." DeVita's own experience in the ad world coupled with his trademark caustic wit makes this play an hilarious parable exposing longtime homophobia and ageism.
 

ANTHONY'S QUOTES & THOUGHTS COLLECTION THAT MIGHT TOUCH A NERVE

Tony Anthony and Jeff Milstein are showmen from way-back and they are now giving-back. Producer, Jeff Milstein has entered into an agreement with author/actor Tony Anthony, a star of Westerns from the good-old "studio" days, to present a book filled with yet-unheard-of quotes from celebs then-and-now. Hilarious, touching, shocking, ANTHONY'S QUOTES & THOUGHTS COLLECTION THAT MIGHT TOUCH A NERVE is great as a traveling companion, a gift for the collector and the history buff, and simply an enjoyable alternative. Tony and Jeff gab like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner while I try and get a word in edge-wise.  
https://www.amazon.com/ANTHONYS-QUOTES-THOUGHTS-COLLECTION-NERVE/dp/B08LGSF38M/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=anthony%27s+quotes&qid=1606168321&sr=8-1
 
 

"Clowning" around with David Howard Thornton

David Howard Thornton was born on November 30th, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama. He is an actor known for work in stage, film, and voice over. He is best known for his roles as Grandpa Who in the 1st- 5th national tours of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical", the voice of Shizoku and others in the video game "Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom", The Joker in the YouTube series "Nightwing Escalation" ...
and Art the Clown in the film "Terrifier" and the soon-to-be-released "Terrifier 2." 
David, a pleasant, humorous, gent, praises Charlie Chaplin (among others) for his mesmerizing performance as Art, the Clown. 
Thrilled to talk to him BEFORE he gets as big as Robert Engund. 
 
Passionpit music: Through My Head (Obninsk, Russia) Song: Aeterna Album: Infinity (2012)

Gravity City: Where to go when Earth just isn’t fun anymore?

Return with us to the wondrous days of Famous Monsters, the science vs. fiction of Omni and Starlog, the satirical humor of Mad Magazine, and the brilliant short stories of the legendary pulp magazines.
Gravity City Digital Magazine — a stunning amalgam of these great periodicals will burst upon the genre by Halloween!
Filled with Mad Magazine lampoon-style ads and spoof gadgets and products, the magazine — aside from its humor — serves as a platform for emerging authors of science fiction, fantasy, and Horror, as well as illuminating interviews and articles about new films, books, and other genre events.
Gravity City is a media partner with Phoenix FearCon Online. Opening October 16, FearCon will run until December 31. Gravity City will provide coverage of the film festival’s events.
Joining Artie Cabrera and editorial collaborator Christopher J. Valin is Margarita Mendoza, a veteran of marketing and advertising, and Jay Michaels, a prominent member of the genre community through Terror Talk, a program he produced for Terror TV as well as producer and host of In the PassionPit, an ongoing podcast, and video program that spotlights indie artists and their creations — just like Artie and Gravity City — as well as appearances at PhantasmCon, Boston Sci-Fi, and others.
Margarita Mendoza has already begun spearheading a far-reaching marketing campaign and soliciting [real] advertising while Jay Michaels is the communications director.
 
 
The Third Issue of Gravity City Digital Magazine is currently in production and it features exclusive interviews with Star Trek: Discovery writers Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt, as well as television writer Larry Brody (The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii 5–0, Automan, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn animated series (HBO) conducted and written by Christopher J. Valin.
Also — Gravity City Digital Magazine is more than a magazine and an adjoining website. It endeavors to act as a compendium for the Gravity City fictional universe it’s based on. Readers and fans have dubbed Gravity City as Star Wars meets the best of ’70s crime dramas.
Synopsis: “In the far reaches of space, the celestial body known as Nebuna is the home to a metropolis with a bad attitude and an expansive wasteland filled with legends and mystery. The tales you are about to read will give you an unflinching ride through the crime-infested gutters and corruption of GRAVITY CITY and the wondrous world that lies beyond city limits,” expounds Artie Cabrera, founder, and publisher of the magazine and creator of the universe and website.
“Gravity City is filled with dark stories, Noir stories, science fiction stories, gumshoe stories, war stories, alien stories, and smuggler stories. In this city, imagination is bursting at the seams, the sky’s the limit and the tales to tell here are numerous and filled with variety.” — an Amazon review.
A series of Gravity City novels written by Artie Cabrera and Christopher J. Valin will be released sometime in 2021.

Kalonjee Gallimore

Kalonjee Gallimore, a brilliant actor/singer/songwriter, with whom I worked in COMMON GROUND expressed his feeling of the current state of affairs as only artists could. I'll be talking to him next week in the PassionPit. Meantime ... he wrote this ...
 
I look around and I watch the world burn.
Elders.. pass the baton sayin’ now it’s my turn.
Covered, head to toe in their ashes I yearn
For lessons untaught, knowledge unlearned.
 
We turn from Sudan, weep for Quasimodo,
Instead of action use a hashtag and a photo.
Infatuated with the likes and the Logos,
But how to get out of this mess, don’t know
 
Can’t even take even take a jog in the street
This mask ain’t the reason I can’t breath
Ankle weights pull me down, locked ‘gainst my feet
But hands up, I guess they staying on me
 
I keep running, faster to you
Running until I breakthrough, running
I keep running, faster to you
Running until I breakthrough, runnin-(Gunshot)
 
RIP…no justice, no peace
And the way this world headed this conflict won’t cease
I was raised to forgive, to love my enemies
But it’s hard when their hatred founded this country
 
Listen to me this, this is not just a rhyme
This is reckless destruction of countless lives
I’m sick and tired of being so tired
We cry into void while you bump Travis Scott
 
Scavenge upon my flesh you vulture
Terminate me, but love my culture
Idolize rappers, ballers, actors
Do you love us, I bet you don’t, ’cause-
 
Gone, before mom could say goodbye -
Bullet in my brain, hands up in the sky -
It’s not safe at home, at church, or outside I just turn into that pound sign and die.
 
I keep running, faster to you
Running until I breakthrough, running (I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being tired)
I keep running, faster to you
Running until I breakthrough, runnin-(Gunshot) (I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being tired)

ESSENTIAL-NONESSENTIAL: PART 70 - Joyce Randolph ... a TV Pioneer talks of the future.

This is the last "audio" passion-pit as we move to video. I received de facto approval thanks to a line stated in my brief conversation with the last member of the famed Honeymooners ensemble TV series of the 50s. Ms. Randolph, amid sharing how they rehearsed one night and then performed - truly before a live audience with no re-shoots just like any stage play - she said prayed for live theater to return in some form soon but ... TELEVISION WILL NEVER GO AWAY. 
She might be predicting the next evolution of the arts. 
 

ESSENTIAL-NONESSENTIAL: PART 69 - Donald Loftus: Brilliance & Eloquence are still in Fashion

There is no need to announce the winner of THIS “IN NEED OF A CAPTION” COMPETITION ... it's Donald Loftus. 
The best caption would be "gentleman ... captain of industry ... raconteur ... master playwright"
My hair was once dark, now it is not, so I remember other eras well and Donald Luftus possessed all the grace and eloquence of that other time. I didn't need to prepare questions. I just needed to listen to this man's tales of great success despite adversity and be enthralled.