Monthly Archives: November 2006

STUFF AND THINGS

THE LIMBO ROOM: SISTERS MAKE A MOVIE

I got this email about "The Limbo Room" from another friend who knows Jill Eisenstadt.

Jill Eisenstadt s a novelist.   Her sister Debra is a filmmaker.  Together they wrote and produced this film and Debra directed it.  Jill had a really fun piece in the Sunday Times City section a couple of weeks ago about tips for making an independant film in New York City.

They especially need people to come to the Avignon/New York Film Festival Screening at Hunter College on November 16 and 18 since they will be screening in a 600 seat auditorium.

My husband and I have both seen the film and think it’s great otherwise I wouldn’t be doing this.  The film is about actors who are understudying an Off-Broadway play (hence the title) and events that occur during the run of the show.  It’s very well acted and very funny.  Production value is excellent.  So try to make it to a screening and bring some friends.

Postcard from the Slope

PUPPETS ON GARFIELD PLACE

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All these years in the Slope and we’ve never been brownstone streets  trick-or-treaters. We usually stick to Seventh Avenue and do the parade.

Now that Ducky is around, though, we’ve started to venture onto Garfield and First Street for trick-or-treating and it’s quite a revelation.

People sit in front of their brownstones giving out candy. Some sit on top of the stoop and give out candy there (make ’em work for their candy!). Some even make you ring the doorbell.

Mid-block on Garfield there was a big crowd, music, applause. "What’s going on?" I asked.  The Black Box Theater I was told. Some professional puppeteers do a black light puppet show out their ground floor window. The Puppets: a skeleton, some ghosts, a movable skull and a trumpet. The song: "I Ain’t Got No Body."

It is so well done and funny — I was WOWED. And it’s been going on for years. So I’m the last to know. It won’t be the last time.

Picture to come. Yoo Hugh, Where’s that picture?