Our friend Lou Esposito, who’s the Producer at Mattel Brands Online for the BarbieCollector.com website, is awesome. (That’s him with Lani during her October 2006 visit to the old El Segundo campus she used to call “work” for three years.)
He’s wicked talented, as an avid blogger and member of the highly-regarded Shakespeare at Play theater company. (Check out a review, with him in the accompanying photo, of their recent Twelfth Night production.)
It’s the latter talent which inspired this blog post. Lou sent this email to some friends the other day:
Years ago (we’re talking decades here), my friend Anne’s boyfriend was working on a book on artists… interviews with struggling artists and performers and how they cope with the day to day survival while pursuing their craft. In the course of working on his book, he sent me a set of interview questions, which I was only too glad to reply to. And promptly forget.
Fast forward 20 years to learn that the book was published in ’04, and I’m one of the ‘struggling artists’ included … It is truly surreal reading my responses from 20 years ago and comparing them to who I am today, as I get back into acting after so many years away from it.
The book is “Artists on the Art of Survival: Observations on Frustration, Perspiration, and Inspiration for the Young Artist” by Bill Mesce. I’ve read through the parts you can see at Google Books, and I’m just amazed by how the things about which we’re passionate never truly leave us.
One way or another, you WILL “A-Ha Yourself!” in this life.
