Tag: Woody Allen
And Imogene Coca my mother. But only for a day or two, and not as publicly as I might have liked.
I suppose I could write a post about the virtues and limitations of mime training, but this isn’t it. Sure, I took a smattering of classes, studying with Reid Gilbert, René Houtrides, Tom Leabhart, and Moni Yakim (and salivating over Children of Paradise), but I never really took to mime. (Translation: I sucked at it.) So instead of a treatise, just a few hopefully amusing snapshots of mime’s public image over the years.
The hardest act I ever had to follow, bar none, was the boxing kangaroo on the Hubert Castle Circus. Here’s Woody Allen battling a kangaroo when he was playing ringmaster at the Hippodrome in 1966.
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin