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“Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean!”

"Today’s the day!" as Mel Fisher would intone. The Little Theatre Group‘s production of "Come Back…" opens tonight at 7:30p at the Blanche Brown Theatre in Escazu. Tickets are 1500 colones ($5) for adults and 1000 colones ($2) for students. You can’t do better than that for live theatre!!!

I play Sissy, "a fun-loving sexpot who married the local alpha male"… oh yes, some typecasting going on here. That’s me in a nutshell. In the movie and on Broadway, Sissy was played by . . . → Read More About “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean!”

De Blonde

Rehearsals are in full swing for Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean. I play Sissy, a brash buxom bleached blonde, the part Cher played in the movie. The plan was for me to wear a wig for this part, a hideous idea: hot, itchy and I’d have hat hair for the opening night party. This could not be allowed to happen. So I decided to bleach my hair blonde. I’ve been blonde before, no sweat.

Besides, it’s true blondes have . . . → Read More About De Blonde

Futbol Fever!

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Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Costa Rica to Nashville

Boogie Down in, um, San Pedro

On our way home from The Road to Volcan Barva, we passed a festival in Barva San Pedro’s town square. Last night, when I wrote this, I identified this village as Barva. This morning, Mr. I-Know-Where-I-Am-And-You-Don’t informed me it is the village of San Pedro.

Sorry… I thought it was Barva. My internal compass is of no use to me. I can find Hell’s Kitchen in a New York . . . → Read More About Boogie Down in, um, San Pedro

Never Alone

This is a photo of the INS building (the "private" insurance company) in downtown San Jose. See the bright white disc in the upper right of this photo? In that cloud? Guess what that is? Er, who?

Visitors, of course!!! UFOs. And everybody sees them!!! You can see one in Costa Rica and you don’t have to keep it a secret. I LOVE that about this place. Not that I’ve ever seen a UFO. Or that there’d be anything wrong with me if I had. At least, . . . → Read More About Never Alone

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