Iron Man to Roger Ebert to Studs Terkel

Tonite thinking about going to the movies, I was looking up Ironman and to make sure I had gotten the right name of the movie, I came across Roger Ebert's review of the movie. After reading that, I noticed a link to a previous blog entry of his regarding Studs Terkel. I was introduced to Studs Terkels work in my acting class with John Short. He had us choose monologues from one of Mr. Terkels' books. Anyway, Roger Ebert's article about him touched me and I just wanted to share it.

Jared Leto

Friday night, I went and saw Chapter 27 at the Nuart. Both Mr. Leto and the director/writer Mr. Schaefer were there to talk afterwards. I wasn't sitting very close and my students will be very upset to learn that I wasn't forward or pushy enough to actually meet Jared Leto. But the talk was good. He was well spoken and carried himself well. And I discovered a great used book store around the corner from the theatre. I found a book of essays by Julia Alvarez (which I didn't buy - but it looked good considering I much prefer novels to short stories) and I bought an Ethan Canin novel. A bonus to the evening was that my friend Super Duper was at the theatre too. It was good to see him.