BRAD BALFOUR WITH CATALINA SANDINA MORENO:

" ... G21: DID YOU EVER THINK YOU'D BE AN ACTRESS?

CATALINA SANDINA MORENO: I never thought I would be an actress.

G21: WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO DO?

CATALINA SANDINA MORENO: I was studying advertising, so for me to be in a movie released in theaters and read all this amazing press, is a dream that I haven't dreamt.

G21: DO YOU FIND THIS ATTENTION OVERWHELMING?

CATALINA SANDINA MORENO: Sometimes I just want to freak. I don't want to think, I get really overwhelmed and excited, and I get panic attacks. It's too much for me because I never expected it.

G21: HOW HAS DEALING WITH THE MEDIA CHANGED YOU?

CATALINA SANDINA MORENO: This is pretty hard, I think it's harder than shooting, because when I was shooting the movie, every day was different; but every day that I have press is the same, you're in the same little room--they just put me in here--and they bring people down. In MARIA, we just changed locations and it was exciting, and there were different people. And here is like, "Oh my God, again in Fine Line, again in Veronica's room." ..." READ MORE


MPUTHUMI NTABENI has this to say this week: "Listening to the conceited partial confessions from the war-mongering leaders of the Allied Forces made me think of Leo Tolstoy; the Russian novelist who wrote War and Peace. Tolstoy's religious attitude makes me shudder at how good intentions on spiritual matters can sometimes pave the road to Hell. Tolstoy was tortured by what he regarded as the Christian ideal of self-perfection, which gave him what one of his biographers called "... the greedy envy of all who had the good fortune to be unfortunate." There're numerous spiritual benefits to suffering, but the likes of Tolstoy mistakenly make suffering into a virtue, which it is not.

The attitude of making suffering into virtue was not something novel to Tolstoy. Western thought, in men of good intentions like the stoics, fell for this trap. The ancient Greek dramatist, Aeschylus, was sowing on a ploughed field when he said "... learning comes from suffering," and called suffering a kind of savage grace from the gods. Tolstoy, with his fallen angelic pride, took the attitude further.

Listen to him writing to one of his protégés, Alexeyev about the depravity (read enjoying the money he made through his writing) he saw around his family:

"The folly of the people I live with saddens me. Often they fail to see how I can perceive their insanity so clearly when they're lacking in the capacity to understand the error of their ways. And so there we stand, staring at each other and not understanding, astonished by each other and each holding the other to blame. Only, there are untold hordes of them and I am alone. And they look happy and I look sad. . ."

If they were virtuous, according to Tolstoy, they would give up their wealth and live as peasants, something he constantly tried but failed to achieve. ... " READ MORE


DOUGLAS MC DANIEL AT PHOENIX'S HERBERGER AUDITIORIUM: "The modern dancer girls had evacuated. The socialites had, too. But that wasn't so bad. It was a Tuesday night at the Herberger Theatre in downtown Phoenix and there was plenty of food, reasonably priced alcohol. And the Herberger, now the grandest of all performance venues in all of Arizona, was certainly a sweet setting for a helluva party. But the modern dancer girls, who had melted in a sensual orgasm of death as it embraces life during a piece set to the music of Dead Can Dance, had already performed.

They left, pretty much punched the clock and flew. That sucked the marrow out of this pre-Halloween event and so the female socialites left. So did the rich guy in the tie and the suit. After all, he clearly wasn't getting any action here.

So by the time the Tombstoners, a local punky rockabilly band began its second set in this big round entry room at the Herberger, they were playing to a food server from Alice Cooper's Restaurant, myself, and a woman named Dorine, who was actually a friend of the band.... " READ MORE

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