My goal is a blog a day, which my daughter Bess would say is folly (and she has standing, having blogged almost weekly for a year). But there you are. Most of us must learn from our own experiences.
So, it's technically the 28th still so I can say what I did last night, which was one of those rare "only in New York nights." The Wonderful Ladies with whom I work (click here, learn more) are marketing a stirring independent film, 'Not Today' (click here, learn more). We hosted the producer, Brent Martz, and the star, Cody Longo, at a media event at the Crosby Hotel in SoHo. I get to SoHo so seldom, I had to ask one of the servers what neighborhood we were in.
(The sweet server has been here 10 years with her husband, both musical theater geeks, and now she's pregnant, and they are headed home to New Hampshire to raise the tyke-to-be, proving the adage that the aforementioned daughter, Bess, coined about New York: "People come here with dreams and leave with reasons.")
We showed clips of the film, hung out at the cool hotel in the neighborhood where all the cool kids are then went to a fashionably late dinner with Brent, Cody, Rita Cozby (Emmy-winning journalist, national radio host, nicest person on the planet) and her friend, Tomaczek Bednarek (I am not making this up, second-nicest person on the planet) and various other PR types. Couldn't have been more fun if we scheduled it and none of it was scheduled.
And such a worthy cause. "Not Today" is all about human trafficking (27 million, yes, million, people are trapped in trafficking RIGHT NOW!). "Not Today" gives us the American-eye view of the problem and so gives us the story we need to find a handhold on the issue. It's a good film . . . produced by a church in Southern California, Friends Church, where Brent is on staff. Amazing commitment by amazing people. I think the movie will strike a chord, and I hope it makes money, and if it does, Friends Church is plowing all the profits into building schools for India's "Untouchable" Dalit people. (Friends was already involved there, and Brent, along with the lead pastor, Matthew Cork, determined a film was the best way to tell this tale.)
Any who, it was a GREAT night, and my girls are jealous that I got time with Cody (he's starring in TeenNick's "Hollywood Heights" . . . click here, learn more).
OK. that's it, and that's enough.
So, it's technically the 28th still so I can say what I did last night, which was one of those rare "only in New York nights." The Wonderful Ladies with whom I work (click here, learn more) are marketing a stirring independent film, 'Not Today' (click here, learn more). We hosted the producer, Brent Martz, and the star, Cody Longo, at a media event at the Crosby Hotel in SoHo. I get to SoHo so seldom, I had to ask one of the servers what neighborhood we were in.
(The sweet server has been here 10 years with her husband, both musical theater geeks, and now she's pregnant, and they are headed home to New Hampshire to raise the tyke-to-be, proving the adage that the aforementioned daughter, Bess, coined about New York: "People come here with dreams and leave with reasons.")
We showed clips of the film, hung out at the cool hotel in the neighborhood where all the cool kids are then went to a fashionably late dinner with Brent, Cody, Rita Cozby (Emmy-winning journalist, national radio host, nicest person on the planet) and her friend, Tomaczek Bednarek (I am not making this up, second-nicest person on the planet) and various other PR types. Couldn't have been more fun if we scheduled it and none of it was scheduled.
And such a worthy cause. "Not Today" is all about human trafficking (27 million, yes, million, people are trapped in trafficking RIGHT NOW!). "Not Today" gives us the American-eye view of the problem and so gives us the story we need to find a handhold on the issue. It's a good film . . . produced by a church in Southern California, Friends Church, where Brent is on staff. Amazing commitment by amazing people. I think the movie will strike a chord, and I hope it makes money, and if it does, Friends Church is plowing all the profits into building schools for India's "Untouchable" Dalit people. (Friends was already involved there, and Brent, along with the lead pastor, Matthew Cork, determined a film was the best way to tell this tale.)
Any who, it was a GREAT night, and my girls are jealous that I got time with Cody (he's starring in TeenNick's "Hollywood Heights" . . . click here, learn more).
OK. that's it, and that's enough.
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