THE NIGHT BUSTER KEATON DREAMED ME to Have West Coast Premiere at 24th Street Theatre

24th Street Theatre finds color in the lives of two orphan girls living in a silent film world of black, white and varying shades of gray. Debbie Devine directs the West Coast premiere of Kerry Muir’s magical, surreal, dream-like movie-within-a play, The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me, for an April 11 opening. Performances will continue through May 31, with low-priced previews taking place March 28 through April 5.

Maya Brattkus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible at Theatricum Botanicum) and Olivia Cristina Delgado (A Mexican Trilogy at the LATC, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at the Broad) star as sisters Haley and Renata, fending for themselves in a fire-scarred apartment. So far, they’ve managed to elude Child Protective Services, but now it looks like Mrs. Giamatti next door (radio host/voiceover artist Keri Tombazian) might be on to them. Is this all a dream? Or are they being filmed for a movie like the ones their mother used to take them to at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax? (Tony Duran, seen at 24th Street in La Razon Blindada, portrays the “director”; the original silent movie score is composed and performed live by Bradley Brough.) When Buster Keaton (John Ellsworth Phillips, whose credits include Julius Caesar with Independent Shakespeare Company) mysteriously appears on the eve of Haley’s birthday, the boundaries of the girls’ reality are stretched.

The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me was the winner of the 2010 Maxim Mazumdar Award (under its original title, Cut-Ups). It premiered at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, NY, where the Buffalo News called it, “A surrealistic play about personal loss and the power of the imagination… bouncy and moody, hungry and hostile, dreamy and daffy all at once.”Continue reading

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HOWTO: Re-Index the Spotlight Index on a Mac

The file search tool Spotlight on Macs is a fast flexible way to find files, except when it isn’t.  Occasionally Spotlight does not find files I know are on my Mac and the index needs to be repaired.  

To force Spotlight to delete an old index and create a new one:

  1. Click the Privacy tab.
  2. Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the Add (+) button and select the folder or disk to add.
  3. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
  4. To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.”
  5. From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the Remove (–) button to remove it from the list.
  6. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.  This can take a long time.

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Wild Prairie Rose New York Premier April 3 and 4

Our movie WILD PRAIRIE ROSE will make it’s New York Premiere at the ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York.  The film will be shown –

WEDNESDAY APR 3 | 7:30 PM | GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER

113 MIDDLE NECK RD, GREAT NECK PLAZA
NY 11021, USA
TEL: 516-829-2570
goldcoastarts.org

THURSDAY APR 4 | 6:15 PM | MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN

334 AMSTERDAM AVE, NEW YORK
NY 10023, USA
TEL: 646-505-5708
www.jccmanhattan.org/film/reelabilities/
Our director, Deborah LaVine, and actors Troy Kotsur, Suanne Spoke, and Maya Brattkus will be there!

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HOWTO : View/Download My Photographs on Flickr

I share some of my photography on the photo sharing site Flickr.  Flickr was part of Yahoo and has since been purchased by SmugMug. This article explains how to create a free Flickr acount and how to view and download my photography.

 

If you do not have a Flickr account:

  1. Browse to https://www.flickr.com
  2. Click Sign Up
  3. Fill in the form as directed.  You can sign up with any of your existing emails addresses and do not need to sign up for Yahooo.
  4. Continue below

If you already have a Flickr account:

  1. login at https://www.flickr.com
  2. Search for Daniel Fishman and select People
  3. Find my account and select FOLLOW
  4. If you would like access to provate albums – mostly family events, email me and I will add access to them for you.

 

How to Free Up Space Used By Time Machine’s Local Backups on Your Mac

Time Machine doesn’t just back up to external drives. Enable Time Machine on your MacBook and it will create “local snapshots,” too — potentially taking up over 100 GB of disk space on its internal storage.
These local snapshots appear as “Backups” when you look at the visual overview of storage in the About Your Mac window.CHRIS HOFFMAN has written a good article about  how you can free up that space and get more room on your Mac.

Cambria Film Festival: And the winners are …

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February 12, 2018 09:57 AM

Wild Praire Rose the Movie – Press Cambria Film Festival

On a high note: Cambria Film Festival wraps up at Hearst Castle 

Just as the sun started to dip over the hills of San Simeon, we made our way up the winding Highway 1 on Feb. 11. Nary a zebra was in view tonight as we make the turn for Hearst Castle.

With Valentine’s Day just days away, one would be hard-pressed to find a more romantic spot on the Central Coast than the castle, and the founders of the first ever Cambria Film Festival agreed, which is why the closing champagne gala and awards ceremony is being held at the movie theater on-site at the state park. In politically divisive times such as these, festival organizers decided their event would center on something we could all agree on: love. Every film screened over the weekend touched on matters of the heart in one way or another.  READ MORE

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