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Bloodline!

Sissy Spacek as Sally Rayburn

Sarah French as young Sally Rayburn

Sarah French as Squeaky Fromme and me as John Hinckley in the World’s Worst Production of “Assassins,” November 2003

Sarah French as the gorgeous Sarah French

Lite Brite!

Guest Stars!

Check out her credits and videos on her IMDb page

[ EXTRAS ] Studs Terkel’s “Working”

From the PBS production on “American Playhouse” in 1982. I incorrectly thought the show was from the early 1970s, when it’s actually from the late 1970s (original Chicago production, 1977; original Broadway production, 1978). Stephen Schwartz isn’t the only composer, it used several (including James Taylor). It was recently revised in the 2010s for the London production, with additional songs furnished by some unknown contemporary composer named Lin-Manuel Miranda. Cast albums are available. I can’t find the whole PBS production streaming. Read more about it on the show's Wikipedia page.

[ EXTRAS ] A passage from “Ragtime” by E.L. Doctorow

“He was clutching in his hands, as if trying to choke it, a rampant penis which, scornful of his intentions, whipped him about the floor, launching to his cries of ecstasy or despair, great filamented spurts of jism that traced the air like bullets and then settled slowly over Evelyn in her bed like falling ticker tape.”

“SEE WHAT YOU MISS OUT ON WHEN YOU DON’T READ?” - Ms. Maria Dounelis, Brockton High School history teacher, ca. 1985

Pussy Bows!

Here is what you get when you Google “pussy bow" … And you can read more about its origins (pussy here is, in fact, short for pussycat), etc. on its Wikipedia page.