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ok, this happened about a week ago. . . . but i forgot to blog it. i caught an ad for law and order's svu, and (through the fuzz of my uncabled tv) noticed a familiar form and voice. brent popolizio!. . . . this dude was a completely cool actor type at emerson, and lived above me one summer. he was also in one of my favorite shows that i worked on at emerson, spring's awakening. . .. a really dark victorian coming of age story----did i mention really dark? anyway, he played a schoolboy named, Melchior or maybe he was moritz? anyway the character takes his own life. . . if i remember correctly. man. . . . for being one of my favorites. . . it sure doesn't seem like i left much memory room in my brain for it. i was the master electrician. . .. and the cast included most of my favorite actors from my time at emerson. . .. the script was something like 30 pages long. . .. i remember the stage manager showing me how short it was, but the quirky but gifted director turned it into a four hour tour. we usually lost 3/4 of our audience after 2 hours at the intermission break. . . . sad. . . they missed a great show.

anyway, brent, --who once came down the fire escape into the kitchen while i was cooking to borrow some extra tin foil. . . . was in an episode of law and order svu. i thought it would be great if he ended up being a suspect in a murder case, and he was for about 25 seconds, before he cleared himself by explaining that he had found the dead girl's phone in the street and just started using it.

it's so exciting seeing people i know on tv, especially people i like :)


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