Old Friends

This first photo is of Lesley Ann Warren and me in the show “Gone With The Wind” at the Music Center in Los Angeles. 14570711_10209823459718989_1343490602080180930_o

She was Scarlett and I was Miss Melanie. We became best girlfriends while sitting in the wagon on stage while Director Joe Layton was directing the burning of Atlanta around us.
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Every year after that we had a photo taken of us together…
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…year after year….

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…after year…

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until the last several years when our lives have led us in so many different directions that we haven’t seen each other until we met over the weekend at the Hotel Del Coronado.

14633643_10209823496679913_3360688616954291096_oIt was as though no time had passed. It’s like the lyrics from the Steven Sondheim song, “Old Friend” – “New friends pour through the revolving door, maybe there’s one that’s more, some of them worth something too… but us, Old Friend, what’s to discuss Old Friend? Here’s to us. Who’s like us? Damn few!”

San Diego Ballet Fundraiser

14681058_10209797950081264_1493649136789007782_oWe had a WONDERFUL time at the fundraiser for the San Diego Ballet…

Thank you, Susan Lowrance for inviting us!!

14633643_10209823496679913_3360688616954291096_oAnd I got to see my DEAR old friend, Lesley Ann Warren, the amazing actress who started in ballet and studied with Balanchine.

14715103_10209797949961261_7236732691930169807_oShe was the guest of honor. We had so much girly-giggles and joy at seeing each other again. We met doing Gone With The Wind at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (She was Scarlett and I was Melanie) and we have had “bff photos” taken almost every year since then…

Except for the last few years.

14715656_10209797951041288_8793558156057747246_oI’ll dig a few up when I get home.

The beauty is how exquisite life is.

The older we get the more we see the perfection and the joy.

Udana Talks About Her TV and Movie Career, Pt. 5

NOTE: This interview with Udana was conducted January, 2015. In this installment, publicist Bill Murphy (BM) and multi-talented Udana Power (UP), discuss Udana’s career from 1981 up through 1989, stopping just short of her appearance on Knot’s Landing.

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BM: Let’s pick up where we left off last time. In our last interview we covered your stage work with Katharine Hepburn and your work with soaps, General Hospital and all of your commercial work.

UP: Yes, okay.

HighRiskBM: And that takes us up to – I know some of this stuff was going on at the same time, but as far as your movies and TV work go, 1981 was something called High Risk. Do you remember what that is? You are actually uncredited as Gail. How did you get uncredited for that?

UP: Oh, yes, that was a movie. What do you mean? How did I get uncredited?

BM: According to IMDB your name is Gail in it, but then in parenthesis it says uncredited right beside it.

UP: Hmmm…I have no idea.

BM: What is High Risk? I can see it’s four –

UP: High Risk is a movie. It’s on DVD. Bruce Davison was in it and James Brolin.

BM: James Brolin, Anthony Quinn, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn. It’s a huge cast.

UP: Yes. They flew us down to Mexico. I was playing Bruce Davison’s wife. We shot in Mexico City. I had a day off and went to the pyramids of Teotihuacan and ran up to the top. I still have a little, marble frog I bought at a concession stand there. I am blown away that the production company flew me down there because all I had was one or two scenes. Bruce Davison was my husband and I was giving him a birthday party in our back yard. I didn’t go into the jungle and do all the adventure stuff with them.

It was a small role and, as you know, in the film business the slogan is “Hurry up and wait.” At one point I was stir crazy. Bruce is an amazing guy with a wonderful sense of humor. I knew him in Los Angeles. I think he’s Continue reading