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After a bizarre few years hiding from a stalker, going through a divorce, raising children and going underground to write, I finally came out of hiding this year.

I'm looking for a new packaging agent and manager for several properties I'm producing. Have 5 shows, 3 scripts and 5 books in the thriller, comedy and feminist genres. 

Cornell has been invited to contribute her writings to The International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary.

 

About Lydia Cornell

• With 20-34 million viewers Tuesday nights on ABC primetime, AFI Best Actress nominee and People's Choice Award winner Lydia Cornell grew up in America’s living rooms as the star of ABC's hit series Too Close For Comfort opposite TV legend Ted Knight’s (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack) virginal daughter Sara Rush
• Currently in talks with Dancing with the Stars, her show is back on TV daily in 84 million homes on Tribune Broadcasting’s new comedy channel Antenna TV, on WGN and in top markets nationwide.
• Starred in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David; Kelsey Grammer Comedy Hour; Host of Variety’s Power of Comedy with Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Aziz Ansari, Dylan McDermott and Sarah Silverman. In July 2014, starred on stage at the Whitefire Theatre in Hollywood Shorts with Hallmark Channel’s Mark Steines.
• Cornell’s fan base exploded last fall when she shot onto Google’s Top Trends[1] and Yahoo! Finance News’ Most Viewed News Stories[2] right behind William Buffet. Yahoo! Finance News: Lydia Cornell interviews World Leaders, Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House and Presidential Candidates for new morning drive AM radio show
• Lydia is known for her voice; has her own national radio show with MTV stars, Hell’s Kitchen chefs and CLNS Sports network which was nominated for a 2013 Stitcher Award. She starred in Hagar the Horrible and booked dozens of commercials before Abrams Rubaloff disbanded. She stopped to raise children, write and produce.
• Lydia currently co-stars with Robert Downey, Jr., Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi and Gary Oldman in “Me, Miami and Nancy” new indie winner of Park City Film Festival, and in acclaimed director Jordan Alan’s Cats Dancing on Jupiter with The Mentalist’s Amanda Rhigetti
• Cornell is now a mother, teen mentor, women and children’s advocate, talk show host, author, award-winning writer, blogger.She recently spoke at Texas A&M on overcoming domestic violence and did a documentary for Safe Passage, a battered women’s shelter.
• Buzz: In talks with Dancing With the Stars and is producing a top-secret show for a network.
• She received the USO Distinguished Service Award for Beirut war zone trip.  
• Too Close for Comfort has been in worldwide syndication for 25 years.

Buzz

• Venus Conspiracy – written and directed by Lydia Cornell, costarring Deborah Van Valkenburgh, who played her sister on Too Close for Comfort
• Pain is Inevitable, Sex Optional – on stage in her original three-woman show
• Political Voices of Women Best Writing Awards ~ World Report Award, Thinking Blogger Award; Weblog Award and Double Koufax Nominee.
• Standup: Improv, Laugh Factory, Las Vegas at the Riviera, Sahara; opening for Paul Rodriguez at Pechanga 1500 seat theater
• Cornell has written over 350 articles on politics, women’s issues, pop culture, spirituality, religion, sex, divorce. Has written an international thriller on the Trotsky assassination
• Known for her knife-sharp humor on HBO, in standup comedy concerts, and on morning-drive radio, Cornell has been called: “A fresh voice; one of the most original voices in America today.”
• Credits: Guest starred in Quantum Leap, Full House A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Full House, Quantum Leap; Hunter; Simon & Simon; Love Boat (5) Fantasy Island; Hotel (2); Hardball; The Red Tide with Oscar winners James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova.
• Teen Mentor - Mentors teens; Hosts “The Answer Room” for troubled youth. Volunteers with sons for Red Cross, Imagine L.A., homeless children, and houses a domestic abuse survivor.
• Raised sons, including a special-needs child with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bone disease)   
• Public speaker on Domestic Violence; hosting Oxygen Network Safe Passage documentary on battered women.
• TMZ: Lydia Cornell was the first celebrity profiled this year on TMZ. “In the '80s, Lydia Cornell became famous as Ted Knight's blonde daughter on the TV series Too Close for Comfort. Guess what she looks like now? “Fergie from Black Eyed Peas!”
• Had a hilarious feud with Ann Coulter; Interviewed Elizabeth and John Edwards.
• Lydia interviewed Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House advisers, presidential candidates, Senators, Congressmen and women, and bestselling authors for her award-winning radio show
• Founder of Comedy Dance Film Festival co-sponsored by Saturday Night Live alum Jon Lovitz, in conjunction with CityWalk Universal in 2011 (*TBA)
• Lydia Cornell's blog - a triple Koufax nominee for best writing, recipient of the Thinking Blogger Award and winner of the Freedom Award and three World Report Awards, is “a consistently thought-provoking firecracker of pointed socio-political commentary and observant, caustic wit.” (Yahoo News; Shotgun Reviews.)

"Lydia Cornell is an award-winning actress, writer, comedienne, and talk-radio host best known for her role as "Sara Rush” - Ted Knight's dazzlingly beautiful yet stereotypically dumb blonde daughter on ABC's '80s hit sitcom, “Too Close for Comfort.” Lydia starred in over 250 TV shows & films including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Full House, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, A-Team, Hunter, Hardball, Hotel (2), Love Boat (6), Fantasy Island, T.J. Hooker and the pilot of the cult series Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. She signed hundreds of autographs at their convention earlier this year in Los Angeles. She co-starred with three Oscar winners James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova in The Red Tide, shot in the Greek Isles. 

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[1] Google Hot Trends: Google Hot Trends: What is popular/what is hot Lydia Cornell in Google’s top 100 trends when a cover story on Cornell coincided with the news that her show was coming back on the air. Cornell wrote over 175 spiritual-political articles on government, politics, Obama, the election, sex and religion.

[2] Breaking Yahoo! News: Too Close for Comfort actress Lydia Cornell interviews world leaders, presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prizewinners for new radio show.

LYDIA CORNELL PUBLIC SPEAKING BIO

About Lydia Cornell

Lydia Cornell has been Invited to contribute her writings to The International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary.

 

Women and children's advocate, award-winning actress, author, teen mentor, talk show host, comedienne and public speaker, Lydia Cornell grew up in America’s living rooms. An international celebrity best known for her starring role as the daughter of TV legend Ted Knight  (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack
) in the hit ABC series Too Close for Comfort, Cornell was one of the most popular sex symbols of the 80’s, playing virginal blonde bombshell cheerleader Sara Rush. The series airs daily on Tribune Broadcasting’s new channel Antenna TV.

Triumph over Tragedy

A children’s advocate, Cornell raised a child with brittle bone disease is an inspirational speaker on triumph over tragedy, osteogenesis imperfecta, domestic violence, and teen suicide prevention — as well as on drug, alcohol and Adderall[1] abuse. She endured a shattering personal tragedy when she found her younger brother’s body after a drug overdose. Sober now for 17 years, she speaks to recovery groups of up to 300 or more. In 2010, she spoke at Texas A&M for Domestic Violence Prevention’s 30^th anniversary luncheon. Her talks are laced with poignant stories of transformation with an innate sense of humor and comic timing. 

Cornell speaks at charity fundraisers, hospitals, high schools, colleges and women’s centers on overcoming loss, grief, unemployment, sexism, ageism, depression, self-sabotage, suicide, raising aliens (teenagers) and every imaginable hardship. Her triumph over addiction was the result of a ‘catastrophic spiritual awakening.’ “There is a reason so many celebrities are in rehab these days,” she says. Her experiences in overcoming a string of failures and humiliations inspired her to assist others with their own demons. “My ego was so big, it had an apartment of its own with a walk-in closet. The only medication I’m on now is self-pity. If you can laugh at yourself you probably won’t kill yourself.”

• Currently in talks with Dancing with the Stars, AFI Best Actress nominee, People's Choice Award winner, and star of over 250 TV shows and films and episodes worldwide, Lydia Cornell was recently on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Kelsey Grammer Comedy Hour; Variety’s Power of Comedy honoring Russell Brand; and movies with Robert Downey, Jr., Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi, and The Mentalist’s Amanda Rhigetti. Classic credits include: Full House, Knight Rider, A-Team, Dukes of Hazzard, Hunter, Quantum Leap, Love Boat (5) Hotel (2); T.J.Hooker, Simon & Simon, Charlie’s Angels; Hardball; The Red Tide with Oscar winners James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova.

Charity Work

This year Lydia has worked with the Red Cross, Firefighters, Autism Awareness, and High Hopes — Pat Boone’s charity for traumatic spinal cord injury. She recently  hosted a documentary for Safe Passage Home, an organization that gives extreme life makeovers to victims of domestic violence, for viewing on Oxygen network. Last fall she housed domestic abuse victims and cared for their children throughout the school year. With the help of the police, Cornell helped rescue a battered woman from a predator.

A mother of boys, she has been raising teenagers (and their girlfriends, who confide in her about the most horrifying things, on a daily basis.)  “I had three boys and two dogs, including my husband, and they were all going through puberty at the same time. Until my husband left me for Gene Simmons. He went on the road with KISS. But only the good remains in a broken marriage.” She also did charity events with L.A. Team Mentoring (after school programs for underprivileged kids) and is developing a site for troubled teens called “The Answer Room.”

News and credits include:

• In Google's Top Trends Yahoo Finance News' Most Viewed News Stories
• TMZ: Lydia Cornell was the first celebrity profiled of 2010 on TMZ.
• Too Close for Comfort has been in worldwide syndication for over 25 years and recently began airing again on Tribune, WGN and in top markets nationwide.
• Received the USO Distinguished Service Award for Beirut war zone trip for troops.
• Known for her knife-sharp humor on HBO, in standup comedy concerts, and on morning-drive radio, Cornell has been called: “A fresh voice; one of the most original voices in America today.”
• Had a feud with Ann Coulter; interviewed Elizabeth Edwards and Sen. John Edwards.
• Interviewed Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House advisers, presidential candidates, Senators, Congressmen and women, and bestselling authors for her award-winning radio show  
• Has written over 350 articles on politics, women’s issues, pop culture, spirituality, religion, sex, divorce.
• Wrote an international thriller on the Stalin’s plot to kill Trotsky.
• HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David
• Kelsey Grammer – Bill Zucker Comedy Hour with Scott Baio
• Variety’s Power of Comedy with Russell Brand, Justin Long, Helen Mirren; Garry Shandling, Sarah Silverman; Melissa Etheridge; Patton Oswalt; BJ. Novak; Aziz Ansari, Lake Bell, Donald Glover; Dylan McDermott; the cast of Outsourced, honoring Noreen Fraser Foundation for breast cancer research.
• Lydia costars with Robert Downey, Jr., Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi, Cloris Leachman, Malcolm McDowell, and Gary Oldman in Dean Grakal’s indie Me, Miami and Nancy which just won The Park City Film Festival.
• Lydia co-stars in Director Jordan Alan’s Cats Dancing on Jupiter with The Mentalist’s Amanda Rhigetti, Ashley Hamilton, Richard Grieco, Keith Coogan
• She is in talks with Dancing with the Stars.
• Lydia Cornell's blog - a triple Koufax nominee for best writing, recipient of the Thinking Blogger Award and winner of the Freedom Award and three World Report Awards, is “a consistentlyought-provoking firecracker of pointed socio-political commentary and observant, caustic wit.” (Yahoo News.)
• Cornell has crashed, burned, and seen it all. She rose from the depths of suicidal despair in an astounding resurrection. Cornell's upcoming inspirational comic memoir is a story of having to play dumb to get ahead as a woman iood. It’s about falling apart,  sliding and crashing headlong into humiliation in Hollywood, New York, Monte Carlo, Beirut and beyond. “It's about how I ruined my life, behaved like an idiot, crumbled from rejection — but against all odds, kept “falling up.”
• Author – book release in 2011 the first in a series to be produced for film and TV
• She did 22 speaking engagements 2008-2011 and spoke at Texas A&M on overcoming domestic violence and did a documentary for Safe Passage, a battered women’s shelter.
• Venus Conspiracy – written and directed by Lydia Cornell, costarring Deborah Van Valkenburgh, who played her sister on Too Close for Comfort
• Pain is Inevitable, Sex Optional – on stage in her original three-woman show
• Political Voices of Women Best Writing Awards ~ World Report Award, Thinking Blogger Award; Weblog Award and Double Koufax Nominee.
• Standup: Improv, Laugh Factory, Las Vegas at the Riviera, Sahara; opening for Paul Rodriguez at Pechanga 1500 seat theater
• Yahoo! Finance News: Lydia Cornell interviews World Leaders, Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House and Presidential Candidates for new Radio Show
• Radio Show Co-Host on KLAV 1250 AM morning drive Las Vegas' Entertainment talk show for 2 years.
• Founder of Comedy Dance Film Festival co-sponsored by Saturday Night Live alum Jon Lovitz, in conjunction with CityWalk Universal in 2011 (*TBA)

"Lydia Cornell is an award-winning actress, writer, comedienne, and talk-radio host best known for her role as "Sara Rush” - Ted Knight's dazzlingly beautiful yet stereotypically dumb blonde daughter on ABC's '80s hit sitcom, “Too Close for Comfort.” Lydia starred in over 250 TV shows & films including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Full House, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, A-Team, Hunter, Hardball, Hotel (2), Love Boat (6), Fantasy Island, T.J. Hooker and the pilot of the cult series Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. She signed hundreds of autographs at their convention earlier this year in Los Angeles. She co-starred with three Oscar winners James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova in The Red Tide, shot in the Greek Isles. 

Miscellaneous:

John Conley, a disabled Marine combat vet, sent her his Purple Heart for her courage in standing up to Ann Coulter's 'extermination speak'

Cornell is a Synesthete and has Synesthesia, artists, musicians and writers (including V. Nabokov, John Mayer and David Hockney) who see colors when hearing sounds, and see numbers and letters in color. The World Symposium on Synesthesia convened in Belgium last year.

Lydia stars in indie film “Damage Done; Happy Holidaze from the Joneses”

Two Consciousness Journeys Out Of Deep Depression

Two Consciousness Journeys Out Of Deep Depression - from Tony Lobl's UK blog

Having seen so much conflicting opinion circulating about depression and suicide since the passing of Robin Williams, I wanted to put a little hope out there…

My heart goes out to Robin Williams and his family. My heart goes out to everyone suffering from depression. My heart goes out to anyone tempted to commit suicide. I can't speak as an expert about either suicide or depression. But I can offer this adapted blog with two stories of hope, showing that sometimes celebrities and the rest of us can find full and final freedom from such ordeals - in life, not death.

Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen’s latest UK tour was a great success, earning him the now customary rave reviews.

His personable presence and his poetic and melodic songs continue to bring joy to an age-diverse audience around the world.

Yet along with his now iconic status as one of the great veterans of the live circuit he brings with him an open secret - for decades he suffered from “acute clinical depression”.

To alleviate the suffering Cohen took all kinds of prescription drugs but “none of them worked” and all “were disagreeable, in subtly different ways” he told journalist, Mireille Silcott.

“I was told they all give you a ‘bottom’, a floor beneath which you are not expected to plunge.”

“And?” - the reporter asked.

“I plunged.”

That failure of drugs to make a dent in the darkness turned the Canadian poet-troubadour in a deeper direction.

“What happened was that somewhere along the line I understood this question had to be addressed at the fundamental level of consciousness”, he told an LA broadcaster.

Finally, 14 years ago, his depression lifted for good in what he has described as a sweet moment of unfamiliar normality. Cohen doesn’t offer a definitive take on what finally brought about the change. But his words point in a direction many have found pivotal to both mental and physical healing - he broke free from self-preoccupation.

“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. It happened to me by imperceptible degrees”, he concluded.

Perhaps this is this one of the lessons that “the heart beneath is teaching to the broken heart above”, as Cohen poetically puts it in “Come Healing” on his most recent album Old Ideas.

In the song he describes the symptoms in need of healing as a “troubledness” that’s concealing an “undivided love”.

That beautifully articulates what a friend of mine experienced. Right where a deeply troubled thought seemed so all-encompassing he learned it was simply concealing the calm, loving nature that’s native to all as the children of divine love.

At the time my friend was suffering from a clinical depression that had endured with suicidal tendencies for eight years despite him having received top medical care and taking well over 9,000 drugs. When he felt he was at the end of his tether he was introduced to the spiritual healing approach of Christian Science by his dad, and after some months of engaging with its ideas a Bible passage triggered an unexpected recognition in him that he was divinely loved - completely and unconditionally cared for.

‘I heard these words of the Apostle Paul: “For in him we live, and move, and have our being,”’ my friend wrote of this moment. He continued: “That idea—that my life was wholly spiritual, and not at all material—just burst through the mental clouds. I had this glimpse—a revelation—of spiritual reality and the complete freedom it includes. It felt as though chains had fallen from me.”

That liberating insight was the beginning of the end of his “long and dark journey of trying to find a way out, to find health and some sort of normality”.

The conviction of being in an unbroken, and unbreakable, relationship with the Divine gained ground over several more months until first the drugs and then the depression itself gave place to a secure, spiritual sense of self-worth. That finally opened the way to a normal family life and a successful, globe-trotting career - things that had seemed completely out of reach.

Jesus once said that “the kingdom of God is within you”, an idea explained in Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as meaning just what my friend found, that harmony and health are “within reach of consciousness here”.

Such healing ideas point to the true source of our consciousness - the ever joy-filled divine Mind - which can pierce, and at times disperse, even the darkest of depressions.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140814234510-14383197-two-consciousness-journeys-out-of-deep-depression

This is Leonard Cohen’s beautiful song, graced by the angelic voices of The Webb Sisters, which includes the verse: 
‘O, troubledness concealing 
An undivided love 
The heart beneath is teaching 
To the broken heart above’

Below is a video of my friend telling of his experience of finding full freedom from depression.

LYDIA CORNELL STARRING with HALLMARK CHANNEL'S MARK STEINES IN HOLLYWOOD SHORTS

I am starring with Hallmark Channel's Mark Steines in Hollywood Shorts tomorrow night! It's a series of 10-minute plays written by Emmy award winning writers, starring TV and Film actors. Come see us - only 2 more Wednesdays! Limited run! 

ONLY 2 MORE PERFORMANCES! Tomorrow night Wednesday, July 30 at 8 PM and August 6!


Come see us live onstage this Wednesday with #MarkSteines #LydiaCornell in "Obstacle #5"

Erin J. Morgart Tres, Trevor Coppola, Issac Taylor, Lydia Cornell, Mark Steines, Max Schlossberg, DiLee

Mark Steines, Lydia Cornell, John Tesh, Connie Selleca

Candyce Milo, Lydia Cornell, Richard Horvitz

Michael Spound, Lydia Cornell, Pete Gardner

Max Schlossberg, Lydia Cornell, Pete Handleman

Candi Milo, Lydia Cornell, Paul Pape, Richard Horvitz

Tony Nunes, Man with Arms, Richard Horvitz, J. Teddy Garces 

Evan Arnold, Tony Nunes, Someone's Arms, Richard Horvirz, Lydia Cornell, J. Teddy Garces

Tony Nunes, Evan Arnold, J. Teddy Garces, Richard Horvitz, Erin Murphy

NEWS RELEASE Press Contact: Jake O’Flaherty 

“HOLLYWOOD SHORTS”
Runs: July 9 - August 6, 2014 Wednesday nights only @ 8pm
Buy Tickets: Brownpapertickets.com or Goldstar.com 
Whitefire Theatre 13500 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Running Time: 90 minutes Website: whitefiretheatre.com or 818-990-2324
Special Theatre Info:
Concessions
Wheelchair Access
Valet available at Boneyard Bistro (across the street) 13539 Ventura Blvd. for $4.50

Please join the Whitefire Theatre in our dedication to developing original works as we proudly present the return of the hit show “HOLLYWOOD SHORTS”, with all NEW original short plays performed by an exciting lineup of 24 TV & Movie actors and written by Award Winning TV & Film writers in this amazing round of 8 rapid –fire, 10 minute original short plays featuring themes such as a motley group of BBQ Dads; a college reunion gone wrong, then all too right; a loving couple’s sparring debate over healthy eating; 2 Latin lovers take us all over the map; 1 woman’s look back at the 2 men she loved; breaking up over brunch, with help from the waiter & more! Hollywood Shorts will keep you on your toes and remind you that great things often come in small packages. Playwrights Michael Sardo (Rizzoli & Isles); Bob Colleary (Touched By An Angel); Gary Dontzig (Murphy Brown), Tom Seeley (The Jeff Foxworthy Show), Kathleen Bird York (Oscar Nominee for “Crash”), Russ Woody (Drew Carey Show), Ed Horowitz (La Femme Nikita), Andy Rooster Bloch are the award winning TV & Film writers premiering their original short plays.

Starring: Mark Steines (Hallmark’s Home & Family host), Lydia Cornell (Too Close For Comfort), Paul Pape (Saturday Night Fever), Michael Spound (Hotel), Pete Handelman (The Mothman Prohpecies), Sean Bolger (Chicago Fire), Scott Krinsky (Chuck), Gregory James (Jilted), Tony Nunes (Pastor Greg), Erin Murphy (Bewitched), Michael Monks (End of Watch), Spencer Garrett (Iron Man 3), Lydia Cornell (Too Close For Comfort), J.Teddy Garces (NCIS-LA), Teresa Ruiz (Major Crimes), Pete Gardner (Eagleheart), Lisa Pescia (Body Chemistry), Sophia Louisa Lee (The Betrayal), Clarinda Ross( United States of Tara), William Cannon(Into The Woods), Max Schlossberg (Brothely Love), Candi Milo(Wilfred), Richard Horvitz (Crazy Stupid Love), Jackie Falcon (Bloodlines), Jerry Butey (Necrolectric), Brian Drolet(The Hills),( Evan Arnold(Garfield) & Jake O’Flaherty(Weeds). Directed by Moosie Drier & Bryan Rasmussen. Produced by Jake O’Flaherty.

Starring: Mark Steines (Hallmark’s Home & Family host), Lydia Cornell (Too Close For Comfort), Paul Pape (Saturday Night Fever), Michael Spound (Hotel), Pete Handelman (The Mothman Prohpecies), Sean Bolger (Chicago Fire), Scott Krinsky (Chuck), Gregory James (Jilted), Tony Nunes (Pastor Greg), Erin Murphy (Bewitched), Michael Monks (End of Watch), Spencer Garrett (Iron Man 3) J.Teddy Garces (NCIS-LA), Teresa Ruiz (Major Crimes), Pete Gardner (Eagleheart), Lisa Pescia (Body Chemistry), Sophia Louisa Lee(The Betrayal), Clarinda Ross( United States of Tara), William Cannon(Into The Woods), Max Schlossberg(Brothely Love), Candi Milo(Wilfred),Richard Horvitz(Crazy Stupid Love), Jackie Falcon(Bloodlines), Jerry Butey(Necrolectric), Brian Drolet(The Hills),( Evan Arnold(Garfield) & Jake O’Flaherty(Weeds). Directed by Moosie Drier & Bryan Rasmussen. Produced by Jake O’Flaherty.

LAST 2 PERFORMANCES! ~ TOMORROW NIGHT ~ COME SEE EMMY-WINNING ACTORS AND WRITERS IN HOLLYWOOD SHORTS

I'm starring with Hallmark Channel's Mark Steines in a short 10-minute piece written by an Oscar nominee. 

Is Hollywood a harsh industry town? How do you survive as an actor or creative person here? Acclaimed Whitefire Theatre producer/actor/acting coach Jake O'Flaherty talks about Hollywood Shorts, Summer Shorts, how to make it in Hollywood! Whitefire Theatre director Bryan Rasmussen directs Hollywood Shorts! come see our last two performances Wednesdays only ~ July 30 and August 6. Air-conditioned SUMMER FUN! Emmy-award winning writers, TV and film stars in a series of short 10-minute plays…

NOMINATED FOR A STITCHER AWARD: THE LYDIA CORNELL SHOW on BEATS and EATS http://beatsandeats.net/2014/07/28/lydia-cornell-show-6-acting-coach-jake-oflaherty-producer-whitefire-theatre-hollywood-shorts/

http://www.whitefiretheatre.com/Whitefire.html

http://beatsandeats.net/2014/07/28/lydia-cornell-show-6-acting-coach-jake-oflaherty-producer-whitefire-theatre-hollywood-shorts/

Whitefire Theatre's Acclaimed Acting Coach Jake O'Flaherty!! ~ Hollywood Shorts ~ How to Make it In Hollywood ~ WhiteFire Theatre Conservatory ~ Acting 101

Acclaimed Whitefire Theatre producer/actor/acting coach Jake O'Flaherty talks about Hollywood Shorts, Summer Shorts, how to make it in Hollywood! Whitefire Theatre director Bryan Rasmussen directs Hollywood Shorts! come see our last two performances Wednesdays only ~ July 30 and August 6. Air-conditioned SUMMER FUN! Emmy-award winning writers, TV and film stars in a series of short 10-minute plays...MondayMadness RU an aspiring#actor? Here's some tips from #Hollywood legends! http://t.co/t2IgPRkZRAhttp://t.co/NRaKmf7f0D

HOW TO SURVIVE IN HOLLYWOOD ~ THE BUSINESS OF ACTING

Is Hollywood a harsh industry town? How do you survive as an actor or creative person here? Acclaimed Whitefire Theatre producer/actor/acting coach Jake O'Flaherty talks about Hollywood Shorts, Summer Shorts, how to make it in Hollywood! Whitefire Theatre director Bryan Rasmussen directs Hollywood Shorts! come see our last two performances Wednesdays only ~ July 30 and August 6. Air-conditioned SUMMER FUN! Emmy-award winning writers, TV and film stars in a series of short 10-minute plays…

NOMINATED FOR A STITCHER AWARD: THE LYDIA CORNELL SHOW on BEATS and EATS http://beatsandeats.net/2014/07/28/lydia-cornell-show-6-acting-coach-jake-oflaherty-producer-whitefire-theatre-hollywood-shorts/

http://www.whitefiretheatre.com/Whitefire.html

http://beatsandeats.net/2014/07/28/lydia-cornell-show-6-acting-coach-jake-oflaherty-producer-whitefire-theatre-hollywood-shorts/

Whitefire Theatre's Acclaimed Acting Coach Jake O'Flaherty!! ~ Hollywood Shorts ~ How to Make it In Hollywood ~ WhiteFire Theatre Conservatory ~ Acting 101

Acclaimed Whitefire Theatre producer/actor/acting coach Jake O'Flaherty talks about Hollywood Shorts, Summer Shorts, how to make it in Hollywood! Whitefire Theatre director Bryan Rasmussen directs Hollywood Shorts! come see our last two performances Wednesdays only ~ July 30 and August 6. Air-conditioned SUMMER FUN! Emmy-award winning writers, TV and film stars in a series of short 10-minute plays...MondayMadness RU an aspiring#actor? Here's some tips from #Hollywood legends! http://t.co/t2IgPRkZRAhttp://t.co/NRaKmf7f0D

I NEVER SUED KELSEY GRAMMER! RADAR ONLINE & TMZ - PLEASE CORRECT THIS STORY

TO ALL TABLOID REPORTERS: This story has hurt my family and hundreds of other innocent people. PLEASE CORRECT this and GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT.

I never sued Kelsey Grammer and I never sued "Comedian Richard Lewis!"

The 'stalker incident', in which a convicted felon posing as a war hero and JAC-C Criminal Attorney, sued Kelsey Grammer in my name — on top of myriad crimes and threats — has truly been a bizarre experience. This stalker has propagated lies all over the Internet, on various free websites such as 'rip-off report' in which criminals are allowed to post whatever lies they want until you PAY Rip Off Report to 'arbitrate' or take down the lies. Even the police can't get it done. Is this the American way?  

 TMZ & RADAR ONLINE: I NEVER SUED KELSEY GRAMMER ~ 

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A Public Apology to Kelsey Grammer from Lydia Cornell

"Kelsey and I Were Both Framed by the Same Stalker!"

Amanda A. Brooks, Yahoo Contributor Network

Dec 3, 2013 "Share your voice on Yahoo websites. Start Here."

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Truth is stranger than fiction. Lydia Cornell has been through a traumatic year, and I sat down with her to get a glimpse of the strange things going on in her life with men, and the incident regarding "suing" Kelsey Grammer - which came about because of a stalker. 

1)Lydia, tell us about "suing" Kelsey Grammer - which came about because of a stalker. 

"I found out I was suing Kelsey Grammer when I read the headlines on TMZ, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Radar Online, The New York Post, and Yahoo in June of 2012: 'Kelsey Grammer Sued by Lydia Cornell After Both Get Duped in Ponzi Scheme,' says Lydia Cornell. When I tried to protest and correct the story, my counsel put a gag order on me. Then I discovered that the co-counsel in our case was a convicted felon posing as a lawyer who became my stalker who was really a hairdresser who had never gone to law school. And this was the person making most of the legal decisions in our case.

My question is: why can't I have a normal stalker like Sheryl Crow has?

On September 13, 2012, I was granted a dismissal with prejudice from the civil case. But just when I thought it couldn't get any weirder, my stalker, impersonating an "Attorney General", indicted me in the RICO act and named me as a defendant in my own lawsuit, along with our Judge (Hon. Jan Pluim); his Clerk, Kelsey Grammer, Gene Simmons, Corbin Bleu, James Hillis Ford, and all my fans and friends on Facebook, including acclaimed filmmaker Lonnie Senstock and Security expert Glen Ratcliff. He indicted me as a criminal in my own case against the alleged organized criminals! This was a Three Stooges court moment; one of the funniest moments in court history. 

I try to turn every tragedy into comedy, but this is no laughing matter. This man violated my restraining order, posted death threats along with my home address, stole the identity of an authentic war hero, bullied my friends - and got the tabloids to go along with it.

Then something so terrifying happened, it could only occur in a David Lynch-Alfred Hitchcock movie. Since this is an ongoing investigation, there are secrets I'm not allowed to disclose yet. But it's as bizarre as a true-life version of "Breaking Bad."

I never intended to sue Kelsey Grammer, and hope any damage to his reputation is repaired."

Cornell, America's sweetheart and virginal sex symbol best known for the classic hit series "Too Close for Comfort," more recently seen on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and several award-winning independent films, has spent the better part of the last decade raising boys, working as an activist for women's issues, writing her upcoming humor book series, mentoring teens and doing inspriational public speaking. Her new talk show "On the Edge w/ Lydia Cornell has been nominated for a Stitcher Award as part of radio network "Beats and Eats".  Also featured on their network is former star of MTV's "Awkward", Matthew Fahey, "Hell's Kitchen" chefs Barret Beyer & Anthony Rodriguez, and sports broadcasters-turned-pop-culture podcasters, Ty Ray and Nick Gelso. Cornell's show discusses issues including paranormal sex, celebrity horror stories, spiritual recovery, and how to overcome hardship with humor. Her motto is: "If all you did was just look for things to appreciate, you would live a joyous, spectacular life."

Finding humor in the darkest places, Cornell's spiritual resurrection story is about overcoming drug, alcohol, and Adderall addiction, tragedy, abuse, betrayal, and divorce. "But I couldn't leave my marriage sooner because I was getting too much comedy material out of it," she writes.

http://LydiaCornell.com