THE CHILDREN: 100% – SWEET

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CAMP LOGAN (LATC): 100% – SWEET

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LOVE STRUCK: 83% – SWEET

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The Monday Moment

Orson Welles. Drunk. Just because. Hat tip, Lee Wochner. Happy Monday LemonHeads!

MODIGLIANI (OPEN FIST): 46% – BITTER

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Pitch

A great schism exists between you and everyone else: nobody cares about you as you do.  Nobody.  Your mother?  Wife?  Your husband and kids?  They would give their lives for you, but that’s their thing.  It’s not really about you, it’s about them and their own choices.  Love’s illusion of selflessness is not less illusory [...]

Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012

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