Actress Laura Harrison is a Chicago stage veteran and Northwestern graduate. You might have seen her in Syfy’s Jersey Shore Shark Attack or the Showtime series finale of Weeds. She recently talked to The Dodgy from her LA home about those experiences along with current/future projects, how Chicago and LA men differ, who she looks like, beer, and music. What was it like to appear on the series finale of Weeds? Being in the finale of “Weeds” was an incredible experience. When a show runs for that many years there’s an enormous bond and sense of family that develops among the cast and crew. One of my scenes was Kevin Nealon’s final scene of the series, and Kevin, Hunter Parrish, and Alexander Gould could not…
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A Dude’s Take on James Franco Movies Supporters of the show usually say its lack of diversity reflects the social segregation of our country, and they have a point. Going to high school in Palo Alto, I definitely saw cliques form along racial lines. But the argument is harder to swallow when the subjects are educated twenty-somethings in New York City. Maybe I have a limited perspective, because the programs I was (sic) in were extremely diverse, but I’ve found that my friends and collaborators hail from a rich background of races and nationalities. There’s no obligation to be kaleidoscopic, but there’s a difference between writing a short story or essay about a bunch of white people that only a handful of people will read and creating another…
What was that line by Death in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life? Something like, “You Englishmen…you’ve got no balls.” That’s how I feel, not so much about Englishmen at the moment, but about WXRT 93.1-FM, “Chicago’s Finest Classic Rock.” For those not from the Chicago area, this station, every April Fools’ Day, pulls a mostly unfunny prank on its aging listener base. This year the station announced it would be playing its entire music catalogue from A to Z, a format that would take it through sometime around Memorial Day. Well they started to do it, but pulled the musical rug on its listeners about half-way through the day. I think they realized if they actually did go A to Z it meant…
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