THANK YOU! HONORED AT LOS ANGELES MOVIE AWARDS ~ WE NEED MORE WOMEN DIRECTORS!

THANK YOU! HONORED AT LOS ANGELES MOVIE AWARDS ~ WE NEED 

It would be great to have more women directors. I was honored at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for directing It's My Decision, a mafia comedy, written by Ralph Odierna and produced by Tetia E. Stroud. Damian Martorana edited and Frank Buono was DP.  What artistry!  Buono did Julianne Moore's "Children of Men."  

And I am so excited to have finally finished writing 40 episodes and a 3-book series, and to be directing original upcoming comedy projects.

We should encourage more women to break through the glass ceiling. Here are some startling statistics:



Women directed only 4 percent of the top movies over the past 13 years—and it’s time to change that. Watch to hear what major film industry players have to say about the issue. Watch the full series when it premieres on EPIX on March 8th.

Watch this video on The Scene.

Here’s What The Film Industry Thinks About Hollywood’s Gender Problem

http://video.glamour.com/watch/heres-what-the-film-industry-thinks-about-hollywoods-gender-problem?mbid=social_fb_fanpage

WOULD YOU SAVE YOUR PET OR A STRANGER'S CHILD? MORAL DILEMMA

Would You Save a Puppy or a Child From a Burning Building?

Moral Dilemma: If you were in a burning building and had a chance to save either your own pet or a neighbor's child ~  which would you save?

But.. I would like to tally the responses for sociological research on a movie I'm writing.

I guess we are animals, after all, and I shouldn't be so shocked that we might not save the stranger's child.  I am making no moral judgment here.

Here is a great article https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201306/would-you-save-puppy-or-child-burning-building

A new study shows when we choose pets over people. 

Posted Jun 17, 2013 

Back To the Burning Building

Now let’s return to the yelping dog and the screaming baby in the burning building. For me, this one is a no-brainer. I am going to grab the kid and head for the nearest exit (even if it was my dog and kid was a brat). The animal activist Joan Dunayer would charge me with being a speciesist for reflexively saving the child. In her book Speciesism, she proposes a different approach to solving tough moral issues involving animals. She says that when faced with rescuing a child or a dog from death by fire you should reach in your pocket for a quarter -- and flip the coin. After all, Dunayer argues, the child and the dog have the same moral value.

I disagree. What do you think?

Hal Herzog is professor of psychology at Western Carolina University and the author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, and Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals.

GUESS WHO GRADUATED CALARTS!

My son Jack, BFA 2016 in Graphic Design

LOS ANGELES JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, CALARTS, FULL HOUSE

photo by Bob Delgadillo at Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival May 18, 2016 

CalARTS graduation with my son ~ May 13, 2016

Thinking of going brunette again.. should I ?  This is my episode of FULL HOUSE

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY: OVERCOME DEPRESSION ~ YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR REALITY

Your emotional and financial state of mind has everything to do with your thoughts.

I no longer find man's dark side interesting. After so many wars, crimes, bizarre murders and psychopathology - and after being the victim of two stalkers in the last two years (one who sued Kelsey Grammer using my name and I can't get the fake stories taken off social media,) I am now bored with the criminal mind. America's fixation with violence is getting old. I once wrote an article about Ann Coulter entitled: "Death is Sexier than Sex."  Well after so many violent movies kill flicks and scuzz films, I've had enough.

In fact,  the mortal realm with all its grisly hyper-sexualized fixation with body parts, bad habits, and human behavior at its worst is so boring already.

I am interested in what makes good people tick.  How do they overcome their lower nature?

I wrote a line in a movie "The Venus Conspiracy" in which Lexy, the optimistic protaganist, says to her abusive-therapist-sister and analyst — (who believes in being very anal and analyzing everything) —  "I think I'm going to stop worrying and analyzing my problems for just one day and see what happens."

Her sister warns, "What are you, nuts? You have to analyze your problems or they might go away!"

"Exactly."

Withdraw your attention from your enemies nad they expire from neglect. The only way to conquer evil is to replace it with good. When you are spiraling down the bottomless pit of self pity and despair, immediately think iof ONE THING TO BE GRATEFUL FOR. Add a new one each hour.

Also, turn your attention if you can to another's problems. Reach out and help someone else. Lift someone up.

"Depression is caused by thinking depressing thoughts."  Duh. But how do you overcome your own negative dark thinking?

By replacing it with loving thoughts. By immediately thinking of 5 things to be grateful for.
A woman I know was diagnosed with cancer, was told by a Christian healer to think of one new thing to be grateful for each day. She was told to make a list. Each day she added new ones. By the end of 90 days, her cancer was gone. Try it. No matter what dis-ease is trying to take hold, don't buy it. Don't put another god before Good. Don't make cancer or any illness more powerful that the love that created you.

It's like being a stroke victim. I have a friend who had a stroke. He is now incapacitated and in a wheelchair. He has spent most of his life pissed off, grumbling, and mad as hell at the "powers that be." He refuses to believe in a power greater than himself. I love my friend. But he has no idea that his thoughts created his "reality" and brought him to his knees.

He can reverse this in one instant, if he immediately starts to seek the light. THis is not religious, it's actually cellular. Science proves love. Love is God. At least that's what I have come to learn, and I can prove it.

God is simply the power of love. That is all. It's just a simple surrender. Stop fighting anything and everything and everyone.

Your thoughts create your reality.

I am always shocked when I hear people say "I hate this or I hate that..." Don't they know that the word hate is a killer?  It's like drinking poison.

You can't afford to hate anyone.

There is nothing in the mortal realm that has any power over you, if it comes from dark, negative place, it is nothing. Fear is false eveidence appearing real. Don't be ruled by false prophets. Only GOOD is real and has Source.

Love really heals. Love makes the world go round. If you can't think a positive thought, then go look at a puppy's face. Go to the zoo and watch the animals. Go watch a comedy and eat some ice cream,

Dont worry, be happy.

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PLEASE DON'T DO DRUGS ~ ROCK STAR DRUG DEATHS

How many more creative artists do we have to lose?

Prince, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison,  Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain,  Prince, Keith Moon, Tommy Bolin, Gram Parsons, Rick James, Ike Turner, John Entwistle, Scott Weiland, 

THIS WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY: WHAT IS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO YOU AS A RESULT OF BEING NICE?

Read Michele L. Gaddis' answer to

What is the best thing that ever happened to you as a result of being nice?

on Quora

I was 18 and working 3 jobs to put myself through college.  My roommate barged in one evening and dragged me to a campus event.  It was a talent contest with a first prize of $100.

She said, "You need the money.  I put your name in, when your name is called, get up there and do your thing!"

I had no "thing".  I was a nerdy freshman exhausted and resistant to be in the spotlight.

She persisted.  I relented. Amidst the enthusiastic singers and occasional dancers, I told a story.

That's it.  It was a heartfelt story that won me first prize.  Shocked and happy, I called a family member who said they had a friend in dire need. Would I help them?

I took the name and address of a perfect stranger and sent $50 in the mail. 

A few months later I get a thank you note and a jade ring.  The woman I sent the money to, died.  She asked I receive her most valuable possession.

I held onto the ring for years, never knowing its monetary value.

I wore it through college and graduate schools, marriage, childbirth, and 
divorce. 

In the heighth of a financial struggle, a major health challenge, and single parenting teenagers, I said a prayer.

Shortly there after, I received a phone call from a concerned relative who asked about the jade ring.

He encouraged me to think about selling it.

I could not imagine how a long ago act of kindness was going to help me in my current trials.

With mixed feelings I had the ring appraised..

The appraisal came back with a verbal offer from an interested buyer.

I accepted what I believe to this day was an act of divine intervention. 

The ring sold for $6,000.

It helped pay medical expenses, the mortgage, bought grocercies, and provided other essentials for my family.

Fifty dollars turned into six thousand over the space of several years. 

Both recipients were grateful givers.  One of us is still humbled by the kindness and generousity of the other.