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Notes from Arden
Henry Ong: The Shyest Man in the Theater
“I have no idea how this came about,” Ong explains about his penchant to promote anybody but himself. “I’m a very, very shy person. I’m socially award, and very private. I always found myself among people who have tremendous credits and so, I find that when I discovered the iPhone, I would take pictures and post them and ask, who are these famous people? I don’t think I could ever be an actor because [I have] so much insecurity. When I say ‘famous,’ it’s tongue in cheek, but I feel that everybody deserves to be seen, and wants to be seen. So anybody who lets me post their picture, I post their picture. I’d rather not be in any of these pictures.” — BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
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Paul Birchall’s Got it Covered: Echo Theater Brouhaha, Sid Solomon, and More
However, to his credit, Solomon certainly never lied about himself or the Pro-99 issue: He mostly said, and quite reasonably really, that he would need to study the issue a lot more before coming down on one side or another – and, that, at least, isn’t a flat out fib to win votes. And, frankly, any one of these folks who is actually willing to reach out to the voters in LA and listen to the issues here is vastly preferable to the armchair pontificators across the rest of the country, who have no sense of the scene here. –BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Got It Covered
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