“My philosophy was always the same in that if I didn’t learn at least three new things when I was preparing a talk, I had nothing to teach anybody. I always started with the assumption that everybody knows as much as I do, and if I don’t teach myself...
“Milton used to say ‘acting is about a necklace.’ The more understanding you have of your character, the more beads you add until you have it complete.” I had a blast chatting with the great Australian-born actor and raconteur, Thaao Penghlis,...
“After the show, one of the women came up to me and she said, I don’t know if you remember, last year my father fell off a bench during your show. And I actually did remember. I thought, was he all right. She says…he was fine. He fell off the bench...
Barbara Hall is a Hollywood historian, researcher, writer, and archivist. A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the University of Iowa, she was an archivist and oral historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for more than twenty years....
