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Born
January 3, 1975 · San Diego, California, USA

Birth name
Danica Mae McKellar

Spouses

Scott Sveslosky (November 15, 2014 – present)
Mike Verta (March 22, 2009 – February 2013) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on The Wonder Years (1988) set spoke fluent French.
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there’s a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, ARE fun, and that’s the way I’d like to convey them myself.

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, ’cause I missed them from high school!

[2014, on the common rumor of her ‘The Wonder Years’ co-star Josh Saviano] I get asked if he’s Marilyn Manson like every week.

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Born
January 3, 1929 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died
April 30, 1989 · Rome, Lazio, Italy (heart attack)

Nicknames
The Father of Spaghetti WesternsThe Master of Adventure

Spouse
Carla Leone (1960 – April 30, 1989) (his death, 3 children)

QUOTES:

[on Henry Fonda] I have never known an actor with such craft, with such professional seriousness; such a pleasant man, full of humor, so reserved and so keenly quick-witted.

[on Lee Van Cleef] His glance makes holes in the screen.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life – in jeeps – and upset all my dreams. I found them very energetic, but also very deceptive. They were no longer the Americans of the West. They were soldiers like any others…materialists, possessive, keen on pleasures and earthly goods.

[on Clint Eastwood] As an actor, he has two expressions: with and without the hat.

Links you directly to submittable to submit:

CRIME Poetry – FREE submission or pay for a reading or movie

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/301187/crime-poetry-submission

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LGBTQ+ Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance)

Submit your short story 0-2000 words:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314064/lgbtq-short-story-festival-0-2000-words-everyone-wins

Submit your short story 2000-4000 words:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314065/lgbtq-short-story-festival-2000-4000-words-everyone-wins

Submit your short story 4000-6000 words:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314066/lgbtq-short-story-festival-4000-6000-words-everyone-wins

Submit your short story 6000-8000 words:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314067/lgbtq-short-story-festival-6000-8000-words-everyone-wins

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FOOD & DRINK Novel Festival

Full Novel Reading:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314012/food-drink-full-novel-festival

1st Chapter Novel Submission:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314013/food-drink-1st-chapter-novel-festival

Novel Video Transcript Reading:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314014/food-drink-novel-video-transcript-reading

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BIOGRAPHY Screenplay Festival

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314076/biography-screenplay-festival

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Born
January 1, 1938 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Birth name
Frank A. Langella Jr.

Spouse
Ruth Weil(November 6, 1977 – November 7, 1995) (divorced, 2 children)

QUOTES:

As you get older, you learn what you can endure. And I know that I just can’t endure living in a trailer in Burbank anymore and saying things like “And what did forensics tell you?”.

[on aging as an actor, and having] …the horrible and frightening revelation that in order to be good at what you do, you have to go deeper and deeper with each part and have to eviscerate yourself in a way that the man in the audience would never dream of doing. It may be that I keep doing it because I’m afraid to die. It may be that simple fact. The idea of saying, “I did this, I won that, I didn’t win that, and now I’ll just stop.” – that isn’t me. I’m a worker. If I don’t pit myself against things that are larger than myself, I’m lost.

[on his portrayal of Count Dracula on Broadway] I don’t play him as a hair-raising ghoul. He is a nobleman, an elegant man with a difficult problem… a man with a unique and distinctive social problem: he has to have blood to live and he is immortal.

VENTURE PRO short film. Q&A from Comedy Festival. Dec. 2024

FIRST GRADE HEADACHE short film. Q&A from Comedy Festival. Dec. 2024

HIGHLIGHTS: November 2024 Carlton Cinemas LGBTQ+ Festival