#MILTON KATSELAS

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Edward Laurence-Goldie Hawn "Las mariposas son libres" (Butterflies are free) 1972, de Milton Katselas.

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Report to the Commissioner (Milton Katselas, 1975).

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BY JOHN DILILLO

NOV. 11, 2021

"Method acting is a Hollywood tradition that’s netted many an Oscar and irritated thousands of coworkers, but it’s likely never been this stinky before. For The Power of the Dog, the new Netflix psychological-thriller-meets-cowboy-romance, Benedict Cumberbatch joins the unwashed ranks of celebrities like Jake Gyllenhaal and Ashton Kutcher. To stay fully in character, the actor didn’t shower for six days.

It was a choice wholly encouraged by Oscar-winning director and writer Jane Campion.."

YOU DONE FUCKED UP, CIA, AND SCIENTOLOGY CONNECTED, GEORGE CLOONEY .

"The Clooney family connections to Washington and politics at the highest level is nothing new. Fun fact, his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of, you guessed it, Abraham Lincoln.

Not only is Clooney related to Washington royalty, he’s not the first person in his family to make it big in entertainment.

Cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was George Clooney’s aunt, the sister of his father Nick Clooney. George’s other aunt, Betty Clooney, was also a famous singer in the 1950’s. And yet another famous singer, “You Light Up My Life” singer Debby Boone, is George’s cousin. Recall that his father was a gameshow and TV host and it almost starts to seem as if being from certain families makes it a lot easier to break into Hollywood.

Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools where he served as an altar boy from the time he was young. By middle school Clooney had developed Bell’s Palsy, a type of facial paralysis. Bell’s Palsy is rare in adolescents, as it’s most commonly linked to sexually transmitted herpes and extreme stress. It’s worth noting that Clooney’s fellow United Nations and Council on Foreign Relations pal Angelia Jolie has also long struggled with Bell’s Palsy. In Clooney’s case, what with the rampant systemic child sex abuse we are learning has gone on for decades in the Catholic church and the connection between Hollywood, child sex abuse and Hollywood-linked military programs such as MK Ultra (recall Clooney’s father’s military ties), his having Bell’s Palsy as a child is certainly an interesting side note....Clooney studied acting with leading Scientologist Milton Katselas at his Beverly Hills Playhouse for 5 years, from 1982-1987.

In the book co-authored by the now-deceased-under-extremely-mysterious-circumstances Andrew Breitbart, Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity, Milton Katselas is discussed at length. As well as Scientology in general and it’s connection to Hollywood.

'Here’s the cliff’s notes: Think of Scientology’s presence in Hollywood as an intelligence dragnet to identify those who will trade compromising secrets for power and influence.'

One of the very top lieutenants of that intelligence operation, for decades, was Milton Katselas.

July 15, 2007, New York Times, ‘The Actualizer’: “Students have left Katselas’s school, the Beverly Hills Playhouse, because of the pressure they felt to join the Church of Scientology… they could not ignore how many of their classmates and teachers were Scientologists … and the assorted weirdness..."

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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979 / Milton Katselas)

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Sarah Butler & Mel Elias’s Residence, Los Angeles, California,

Carter Bradley Architect,

Photo by Manolo Langis

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Report to the Commissioner (1975)

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Butterflies Are Free, 1972 (dir. Milton Katselas)

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Michael Moriarty in Report to the Commissioner Directed by Milton Katselas - 1975

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How well did the revised ending work for you? It worked better. We were in the audience, and when you see them go crazy as opposed to be unhappy, that works for me. I’m not that guy, as a director, who’s like, “Well, I don’t care about the audience.” I do care. I had a great teacher, Milton Katselas, who used to critique me whenever I was like, “But the audience!” He’d say, “Screw the audience! What do YOU want?” What I want is for the audience to be happy. A big part of my job is entertainment. If they aren’t entertained and satisfied, if they feel the experience isn’t rewarding and satisfying… That’s an important part of what I do. So, I was very happy with the new ending.

https://www.fatherly.com/play/pretty-in-pink-director-settles-that-duckie-ending-debate/

Howard Deutch, talking about the revised Pretty in Pink ending, 35 years later....

RAS could learn something, amirite?

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“It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that street. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?” - Double Indemnity - - I did so many scenes from this great #noir #film when I studied with the late Milton Katselas, and Jeffrey Tambor and Gloria Gifford - it was so awesome to strike a pose in front of the exterior of the house that was in the movie. - #hollywood days (at Hollywood) https://www.instagram.com/p/B86kB2Gg0zo/?igshid=10pdnbh80kit6

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New York City in Report to the Commissioner (1975)

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Richard Lawson And Tina Knowles Lawson Build New Non-Profit WACO Theater Center In Los Angeles

Richard Lawson And Tina Knowles Lawson Build New Non-Profit WACO Theater Center In Los Angeles

Venue To Be Home Of Richard Lawson Studios, Mentorship Programs, Mobile Theater, Stage Productions And Empowerment Classes WACO To Launch With Inaugural Wearable Art Gala On April 29, 2017 At The California African American Museum Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, Bianca Lawson And Kelly Rowland to Serve as Honorary Chairpersons “Dreams do not have an expiration date, and that is what we…

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(Watch the video interview on Youtube here)

How To Know If Your Friends Really Support Your Creative Career by Mark Gantt via FilmCourage.com.

Film Courage: You had sent us an email (I think we’re on your email list). You don’t seem to send them too often, just sparingly. You had an article in one entitled “Surround Yourself With People Who Hold You To A Higher Standard Than You Hold Yourself.” What does this mean?

Mark Gantt, Actor/Producer/Writer/Director: It means it’s easy to be around a whole bunch of people who are miserable and frustrated with their careers and so they will tend to be in their own stuff.

I try to do my best to surround myself with people who are trying to better themselves. That are doing the risky things that I want to be doing, so that when I’m feeling down I can call them.

For example I just had breakfast with a writer/producer friend of mine who is on a TV show and I had sent him an email saying, it’s so funny, he didn’t event remember responding to the email. It’s just his life is so busy but he responded. And it said “So I have this pilot that I wrote. I got notes from tons of people and I felt really good about it. Then I got notes from this one person and it’s sort of a rewrite (a bigger rewrite) but in my process I got this other idea and I’m thinking this other idea is better than the pilot. Do I do this rewrite on the pilot or should I start working on the new show?”

And so he wrote back “Oh man…how many times have I been in this position! Finish rewriting the pilot then go to the new story.” It was that kind of thing.

Then he sent an email a couple of weeks later “Hey checking in. Did you start working on the pilot?” He totally forgot that the checked in, he forgot that he responded…he remembered after I told him but it wasn’t something where he was walking in. For me trying to surround myself with people that hold themselves to a higher calling or sort of responsibility, that helped me. And that’s how I am with my friends.

I studied with Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. One of the things he used to say when people were late to class his “Man you’ve got horrible friends in this class.” To the person who walked in and usually the person would be like “What do you mean?” And he said “Well if I’m your friend I would have…”…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

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