by Paul Rose Jr | Dec 30, 2016 | Acting, Daily Update, Directing, Editing, Film, Frustration, Historical Note, Hollywood, Hollywood Story, Reading, Relationships, Theatre, TV, VISION, Writing
When you’re in the thick of things, trying to be discovered, trying to succeed, trying to survive in Hollywood, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that your heroes – the people who have found success, who are where you want to be, have just...
by Paul Rose Jr | Nov 24, 2016 | Daily Update, Historical Note, Inspirational Quote, Leisure
While Thanksgiving did not become a nationally recognized holiday until after the Civil War, it has always been molded into our United States fabric. Thanksgiving Proclamation ~ George Washington (During the time of the founding fathers Thanksgiving was a day set...
by Paul Rose Jr | Nov 24, 2016 | Daily Update, Historical Note
From Atlas Obscura: Read the Original Pitch for Thanksgiving, From the Editress Who Created the Holiday Sarah Josepha Hale imagined a day of Christian celebration. By Sarah Laskow Sarah Josepha Hale, circa 1831. JAMES REID LAMBDIN/PUBLIC DOMAIN By the time she...
by Paul Rose Jr | Nov 21, 2016 | Acting, Daily Update, Editing, Film, Historical Note, Hollywood, Jar of Awesome, Relationships
It seldom rains in Los Angeles, and when it does, it’s almost always a cold rain, not at all like the Florida rain I’m used to. So I started the day in the rain, setting up for Children’s ministry at Santa Monica High School (for my church, Pacific...
by Paul Rose Jr | Nov 7, 2016 | Acting, Frustration, Historical Note, Hollywood, Musical, TV, VISION, Writing
Carl Reiner wrote the first 13 episodes of the a show that he could star in, about a comedy writer like he’d been for Sid Caesar. They made the pilot and it didn’t work. His agent wanted him to try and do it again, since he had all these scripts and he...