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Friday, December 24, 2010

CHRISTMAS EVE (video)

Emily Frankel introduces the poem that Clement Clarke Moore wrote and published in 1823.

John Cullum reads aloud, "Twas the Night Before Christmas."

4 comments:

Chris Van Patten said...: An excellent reading! Thank you for an excellent blog, and merry Christmas to both of you!; December 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Unknown said...: Lovely. Merry Christmas to both of you!; December 24, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Linda Phillips said...: That was the best reading of "The Night Before Christmas" that I have ever heard!!!!! Love, love, loved it and love, love, love you both! Merry Christmas Em and JC!; December 24, 2010 at 5:03 PM
Kevin Daly said...: Absolutely lovely. If he hadn't been an actor, JC could have been a great Southern orator - what a sonorous, engaging voice. Beautifully done!

Merry Christmas to you both!; December 24, 2010 at 11:25 PM

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I'm a writer, writing things that haven't brought me fame, but continue to involve me, inspire me to find an audience.

I started out as a modern dancer, contemporary, but balletic. I didn't want to be a swan, or a barefoot dancer. I wanted to dance to the music that thrilled me as a child, and made me want to be a dancer.

I began writing in the truck my first husband, Mark Ryder and I bought, in order to carry our set, props, and costumes for a long one-night-stands tour -- eighty-eighty performances in eighty-eight cities.

We were performing "Romeo and Juliet" nightly, but our marriage was breaking up. Every day while our stage manager drove us two-hundred miles or so to the next booking, I'd type a detailed description of last night -- what we did well, what we argued about, and a travelogue about the town, and comments from the people at the nightly party.

Recovering from the trip and the divorce, I sent my "car book" to a friend who said -- "Em, it's great,
but ..." And that became rewrites, and another book. Then, my marriage to actor John Cullum, and then a play that got produced, and another book, big hopes because a famous agent loved it.

The title and concept changed five times -- now it's been published, finally, as "Somebody, Woman of the Century." You can buy it, or read about it and my other five novels on Emily Frankel.com

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