Could somebody listen to the Jan 30, 2011 interview of Lori and her husband, at http://www.latalkradio.com/Priscilla.php ? I have to have my computer in safe mode and that doesn’t allow my speakers to work.
The Wikipedia page says:
“In a 2011 web radio interview with Priscilla Leona, [16] Ms. Starfelt discussed a new comedy web series, Customer Diss-Service, that she and her husband Brad Mays were currently engaged in. Stressing the need for strong scripts and experienced, well-trained actors, she asserted that working within small budgets enables creative freedom, thus affording experienced artists a change to present their work in a completely unfettered form. [17] Starfelt also discussed a number of new projects in the works, including the musical feature film Beginnging Blue, which she co-wrote, and the Los Angeles premiere of Doraine Perez’s dramatic fantasia Anais Nin: Woman Of The Dream, which she is producing for the Los Angeles stage.”
That interview was 6 weeks before she allegedly died of uterine cancer that she had known about since September, which spread to her liver. I know this is outside my experience, but this just seems really bizarre to me. Any talk in the interview about her health condition?
because I love you so much, I am attempting to listen. This host’s voice and blathering is like nails on a chalkboard. 6 mins in, she is still blathering about other things. No guests yet. I will see how long I last.
Joanne Worley on crack is a very good description of that host’s voice; she surely must be related to some bigwig at the station to have gotten the job.
I agree with Yaelle that there’s nothing in her voice or manner that even hints of illness. Very positive, and excited about their current projects, including a play called “The Prophecy” [”...deals with tensions between Israel and Palestinians...”]
In discussing the play “The Prophecy” Starfelt started out with: “Well, it was an exchange I began on a political website with a political blogger by the name of David Swanson, who writes about peace issues, and he wrote about “Prophecy”, and he was looking for somebody who could stage it in Washington, DC, and I wrote and I said I’m not in Washington, DC, but I’m in Los Angeles, my husband is a - you know - an established director, and I’d ceretainly be interested in taking a look at this, and so he sent the play over.”
Starfelt and her husband, Brad Mays, were really impressed with the play - much jabbering about it, the author [Karen Malpede (?)] and Malpede’s husband/wonderful, wonderful actor George - something - name Starfelt couldn’t remember.
A really striking portion of Starfelt’s talking was when she was relating how she and Brad met with the author and husband, and...”We had a real meeting of the minds, and we decided - you know, the only kind of art that I’m interested in persuing is art that I can sink my teeth into and just persue with all the heart, and soul, and ambition, and drive that I’ve got. I don’t ever want to have...I don’t EVER want to have hesitations about a project that I’m associated with, you know... I just want to feel good, good, good. I want to be able to pitch it to anybody, you know? And when we read the play, it was clearly a play that functioned at that kind of level.”
“And so, you know, Brad, Karen, George, and I got together and the meeting went great - we were each who the other was hoping we’d be, and so we decided to move forward on production. We had our first table read a couple of weeks ago, and that went pretty well. We haven’t finished casting or anything like that, but, you know, we’re on to the next stage of production and Brad is talking to production designers and costumers and all that kind of thing.”
This sounded like someone on top of her game, raring to go; not like someone short weeks away from a cancer death.
I’m wondering if anything interesting might turn up with the “David Swanson” political blogger. Perhaps she posted comments there - wherever ‘there’ is.