1,000 Words (er… less)
November 19, 2009
Oleanna is set to close January 3rd, so if you wanna see it, now’s the time.
Go to www.oleannaonbroadway.com to purchase tickets!
(That’s me in Argentina last year)
Oleanna is set to close January 3rd, so if you wanna see it, now’s the time.
Go to www.oleannaonbroadway.com to purchase tickets!
(That’s me in Argentina last year)
Memories of Argentina. How they haunt me.
I wish I had time to get up there and see the show
I think you posted the wrong picture. The captions says “That’s me in Argentina last year” but you obviously posted a picture of a ghost/monster…
Great photo.
The way your blond hair spreads out on the way down helps a lot. You must have timed your jump well to get those “pipe cleaner” legs and the footprints.
What a pity ! There is no show in Europe
This is not the same in a book or in a movie 
But who knows?… Maybe one day…, an another play…? This picture is beautiful but a little bit scary 
Hello from Paris! (and sorry for my english :p)
Hey ! great
good to hear that:)
and the picture’s weird though i like it..
Thats an awesome picture. I like the way the Hardness and sharp lines of one coincides with the filminess of your image. The color also works well with the bright red edging the orangey yellow of the other.
If I were you (which I’m not, I know)…but if I were,
I’d be totally p’d off at David Mamet.
He alone didn’t like the “talk backs” after each
performance so now you and Mr. Pullman get the shaft.
If anyone were kind enough to perform anything I’d
written, I wouldn’t treat them that way.
Anyhoo, I guess I’ll have to move up my plans to see it.
I don’t think we got the shaft, this has been an amazing experience. It’s the culmination of a childhood dream to be debuting on Broadway, and I couldn’t have had a more challenging but ultimately rewarding experience. I’ve loved it. January is a normal time for shows to close, we just didn’t announce it as a limited run. Bill and I have been doing this play since April; I’ll savor these next six weeks and then be ready to see what the new year brings.
Well I hope 2010 brings you good things and…good luck with Spiderman 4!!!
Ha ha…what makes you think I’m going to be in Spiderman 4?
You don’t read news reports about yourself? Probably a sign of (and contributor to) mental health. It has been widely reported, apparently starting here:
http://movieblog.ugo.com/movies/exclusive-julia-stiles-in-talks-for-spider-man-4
Read somewhere you were up for the Black Cat character. If I were Sam, you’d be my first choice.
Hey Julia, just saw you tonight in Oleanna and you were fantastic! I’ve always been a fan of your work. Would love to have waited for you tonight to get a photo with you, but I had to run. Will come down another day to see if I can do that. Just wanted you to know that I thoroughly enjoyed the play, which seemed very hard to do actually so i can imagine the work you both must have put into it. Congratulations on a successful show. I wish it was running longer!
Very cool shot…even more impressive w/a point and shoot camera.
Thanks, though I didn’t take the picture, I’m just (half) in it.
Very fun trippy picture from Argentina, looks like your’re floating away somehow. Is this from a film or just a snapshot that turned out cool?
Saw the play enjoyed it. Mamet fan here.
It looks like you’re being poured out of thin air.
(I’d say ‘very creepy’ with a Dracula-ish kind of accent, but I can’t roll my Rs in text…or, well verbally either.)
How was the humidity in Argentina?
I want to nominate for the prize for the longest commute to see Oleanna. Google Maps says its 25,943klms from Melbourne but they suggest you drive to Darwin, kayak to Japan,then on to Hawaii, paddle over to Washington State (serious)then drive to NYC. Wiki says its only 10,355 miles.
Julia, what is it that you like about this picture?
I don’t know if you went to Buenos Aires’ “Broadway” (Avenida Corrientes). There are lots of bad comedies, but some really good stuff as well. On a second thought, maybe you didn’t want anything reminding you of work and went straight for the great meat!
I saw Oleanna on Sunday. The stage is the one place an actor can’t hide…no editing, retakes, etc. You were BRILLIANT. I was blown away by your performance. (Pullman’s as well). Such a tough show to do on so many levels and you nailed it. Thank you for the experience.
1000 words…..funny! Awesome picture.
So the play opened in NYC around my birthday and I thought I would go. Wrong. I could not organize my schedule. So I waited and pouted. I felt let down somehow. I knew it would be difficult for me to arrange but I was going to damn sure try. Questioning in the back of my mind, am I worth all of this? I mean really, life goes on. Then one day I was talking to a woman and she said how her husband was going to take her to New York and a play on Broadway (retired teacher from Midwest meets Big City). I chuckled and said that sounds great. I caught up with her husband later and asked if he would do me the honor of checking out this play for me since I was having no luck in getting myself there. He smiled and said sure with his native New York accent. That made it all the better. You thought I was the kid who stole the candy when I handed him the tickets. I was so happy. I was elated, someone I knew was going. This was a couple who had truly brought joy to my life (and chicken soup), now that I could share something with them made it that much more special.
I had finally worked out some plans to be able to see the show at the end of January and I read that the show will close January 3rd. Ugh! Here I go again, frustrated and dealing with my issue of my own self worth. Doing for others is not an issue for me, it is the shoe I was made to wear. Doing things for myself, well…..that one is tough. I am not a martyr or self deprecating but I cannot help but think of others before myself. Confused, I broke down and told this to my ‘adopted grandfather’. A man I have the deepest respect for and has shown me so much about life’s mysteries. With tears in his eyes, he said you are going. No arguing with him, he said it all with one look.
I guess I will have two interesting stories about opening up and letting my guard down. Life is always teaching me lessons but this one has definitely been fascinating.
I have to admit the photo’s a bit creepy ’cause you look like some malevolent spirit haunting..a bridge? A twist on the 3 billy goats gruff tale. Or the Sphinx. Take your pick.
On another note, I saw a matinee of Oleanna today. Amazing! Mamet’s “The Wicked Son” was being given out outside the theater before the show and because the show was so good I’ll definitely read it. I hope to be able to see you in something else in the future!
Cool pic and fellow NYCer here. Saw the show a few weeks back and was in the front row. Totally worth spending a few extra dollars on a front row seat for this play. Such a great performance you put on with Bill. What a challenge for you to put on a show like that in front of a live audience. The emotions you displayed blew me away. In the last stage of the play where Bill tosses you around, I was about to run out and get you ice. Looked so real, my friend and I were impressed. Enjoy the last few weeks of the play.
How could I forget. Lets Go Mets!
Excellent photo. This is who we look, in eternity. A movement, blurred, seemingly permanent, but temporary. And vice-versa. Light describing the darkness that describes the light.
Reminds me, my friends and i used to take photos like that a lot with an old Pentax SLR, down some lost back road , backgrounded by trees, up in the Muskokas(well north of Toronto) where i grew up.
Photograph: Two Greek words basically meaning, “Light-writing”, which is what we all are; written on light, as i mentioned in response to your post “If no one Tweets about it…”
Experience, like dream, is self luminous. There is only light because we see. We are the spirit that moves over the face of the deep
“Daffodils” (1804)
I WANDER’D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed — and gazed — but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
Julia, First of all, awesome picture! Secondly, i bought first row tickets to go see the play for the middle of December but i got an email today saying that it has closed. I’m upset but that’s not why i’m writing, i was just wondering if you have plans to so anything else so that i can buy tickets right away and make sure to see you. I’ve been a huge fan of your’s since i was 10 and actually got to meet you at my gym last year but would love to see you act live!