John Cullum seizes the topic, blurting out how learning lines has gotten more difficult.
Though his wife Emily praises his heightened skills as a actor, he wishes he had her intense concentration, and her ability to do three things at once.
The Cullums tease each other about things they used to do faster and better.
Thanks for the segment, John and Em! I have some of the same issues as John, so I can relate. It's a little harder at 66 to concentrate on somethings as well as I could at 45 even. I was a software developer. I retired after 38 years in that field last year. At the end of my career I could program just as well if not better that I could earlier but... it was harder to remember and concentrate on the task at hand. Thanks for the episode. Be good to each other, it's far more important than anything else you'll do today. Gary
NEW! ... Emily Frankel and John Cullum offer lively, provocative video commentary on YouTube once a week. Click image above to go.
HOW I GOT HERE
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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Thanks for the segment, John and Em!
I have some of the same issues as John, so I can relate.
It's a little harder at 66 to concentrate on somethings as well as I could at 45 even. I was a software developer. I retired after 38 years in that field last year. At the end of my career I could program just as well if not better that I could earlier but... it was harder to remember and concentrate on the task at hand.
Thanks for the episode.
Be good to each other, it's far more important than anything else you'll do today.
Gary
You guys are too cute. Thx for sharing x
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